Trump makes mob-style threats. Only instead of, “I’m going to mess up you and your family,” it’s now, “A whole civilization will die tonight.” He must be impeached now…
It's really telling of our society that we would need to pressure **any** of our representatives to can Trump in light of his vile spoken intentions to murder an entire civilization, but somehow - here we are.
For some reason, I continue to be surprised at the sycophancy of the GOP legislators. There is a slim chance that a third impeachment is possible but almost no chance of a 2/3 vote for conviction in the Senate. And I think that Trump considers impeachment to be much the same as a ribbon on his chest to show his cultists how much he has been persecuted.
An impeachment without removal? He has had two of them,yet there he sits the twice impeached president. 25th Amendment? Yeh, with that ass kissing cabinet and senate.
Resentful of Trump, and the pantywaist politicians that helped him get there, by their milquetoast actions and slopping at the Wall Street Trough.
You betcha.
If being realisitic is negative, then I am negative. You are still so puffed up with your self importance, that you are insufferable.
You insert yourself into every scenario as if you were an expert. Not just opinions, we all have those, but an expert and if someone doesn't agree with you, they are full of shit, the enemy, a troll, negative, defeatist.
Your lack of ability to engage, belies your claimed expertise and credentials.
How does one depose a regime. By voting? Ya gotta try but don't hang your hopes on it, not when the regime controls all of the levers of power, and has pre rigged the vote.
The only hope is for an internal collapse of the regime as in Chile, or a collapse from without as in Italy and Germany. note that the Franco regime never collapsed until he died.
Failing in other attempt, the way to bring him down from the inside is resistance, and I don't mean marching with signs either. Resistance requires the ability to tolerate pain, because effective resistance will required everyone to endure pain.
My guess is (due to Iran) inflation will go high enough to cause stagflation and a angry public. Money talks. If he can't stop or fix midterms he's looking at investigations and being found guilty of pedophilia, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors.
That's great, but the regime has shown that it doesn't care who or how many shows up, he just launches and AI meme of himself piloting a plane dumping shit on the crows.
Yes, I think we all noticed that. Common Cause is asking for volunteers to be poll watcheers. Our every word here is being monitored so even a use of a word will be picked up by the algorilla be reported. What they are doing is not legal. That should justify the same by us? There are safe and secure EU online search and email systems the are end to end enctypted. Open one of those and re-subscribe to Stack and whoever and then you can use the words we cannot use here to describe actions we can take.
The PATRIOT act was drawn up during the Clinton Admin, shelved awaiting an event to justify enacting it.
Along came 9/11, this highly complex act which would have taken months of debate and admendments was ;pulled out of the filing cabinent, rused through and of the many things it did, was authorize a National Data collection Center, which was built at Bluffdale, UT. The complex is massive, five huge buildings that contain servers, and now with AI being what it is, it can and must assuredly does, sniff every bit of digital and electronic communications, except those that are analog,on both ends, meaning they are'n't transmitted the aether.
Even our comments are being captured, analyzed and stored.
We didn't win the cold war, the USSR fell from within. And why did it fall? Because it was a failed economic experiment and needed to be reorganized. And the right man was fond for the job, Gorbachev. His reward was a healthy life time retirement, a dacha on Lake Geneva, and the Presidency of an NGO created especially for him "the Green Cross"
Exactly, but the people of our country lost as our billionaire weapons industry (Ike's MIC) got all the money and are still winning today and are taking our country for themselves as we talk of this or that failed poicy and Putin ends up in control as our nation's collapse frees him to do whatever he wants. DJT has done his job well. He is expecting the blonde lady staffed dacha near St. Pete in the countryside. We'll see.
Vladimir Putin has not directly blamed George Soros for the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union itself, but he and his government have frequently accused Soros of meddling in Russian affairs immediately following the collapse and during the 2000s.
As usual, you are full of shit. Google. He and Russian state media have heavily blamed Soros and his Open Society Foundation for interfering in post-Soviet Russia and encouraging political instability. The Kremlin views Soros's philanthropic funding in the 1990s as a deliberate, aggressive campaign designed to undermine Russian sovereignty and spread Western liberalism.
I'd like to think WE (not you) had something to do with it. During the late Soviet era (mid-1980s), the American Bar Association pursued engagement with Soviet lawyers, aiming to promote legal reform and "justice under the Rule of Law". Critics argued this engagement legitimised a repressive system, while proponents hoped it would foster democratization. The initiatives often highlighted the stark contrast between Soviet "party-controlled" law and Western legal norms.
Some of my colleagues went to countries lile Russia, Poland, Rumania to teach American law to eager lawyers and judges who craved a fair judicial system. Later, I was adjuct faculty....
No doubt Thom is right, trump should be impeached. Unfortunately that isn't in the cards as Thom pointed out he has only loyal yes men and women around him. However it looks like no one is going to bail him out of the Iran situation, not, Roy Cohn, Micheal Cohen, Fred Trump, Mitch McConnell, no one. My guess is the Iranians will drag out negotiations, as the longer they do, the more money they will make ... above and below the table. Time is on their side. Recession here we come. As prices go up Trump's disapproval numbers will go up as well. Accordingly, I believe we are seeing the beginning of the end of him.
Howard Stern and Trump broadcast on Stern's show that having intercourse with clinically crazy women was great, but, said Trump, and I paraphrase: You wouldn't want to keep them around beyond the act.
Well, MAGA is addicted to hate, as those two are [were] addicted to sex w/ crazies. And that's what Donald sold them: HATE. So, being MAGA they voted for him a 3rd time.
However, in the same way that Howard and Donald agreed that a crazy partner should be discarded right after the fact, MAGGOTS've gotten their hate of non-Whites/non-Christians/non-Straight Men . . . now they need to discard him. We ALL do.
Thom incorrectly put all of the blame on trump here. God, unfortunately, gave us free will. What about the MAGAs and Congress? All of us with a brain saw what a horror he was in his first term, yet MAGAs used their free will to vote him in again. Congress used its free will not to overthrow him after two impeachments in his first term and to continue to turn a blind as he sledgehammers the world in this one. All the while the rich get richer and the middle class evaporates into poverty....
Psychopaths like Trump, Orban, Putin, etc. take advantage of the open nature of democracy to seize power and wreak havoc on their societies and the world. We may have to put in firewalls that would restrict the blessings of liberty to those persons who exhibit normal empathy for their fellow humans.
If it walks like a mobster, talks like a mobster, bites like a mobster - it's a mobster. Do you think mob prosecutor Giuliani being on the Don's team was a coincidence? Rudy got to be mayor for imprisoning hordes of racketeers based on information he got from competing mob Dons. They made him mayor so they would have free rein under his reign.
How does one emerge from 6 serial bankruptcies as a billionaire? Real estate rents and sales is a great way to launder mob money for the Russians - ya know, guys like Putin. Racketeers & mobsters get rich by extortion. Do this for me, or I will fk you up! That was obviously Don Dementiano's approach to getting Iran to do his bidding. Only it looks like he underestimated Iran. When that happens, the mob Dons usually form partnerships - surely that is the next tactic.
The funny thing is, he is all bluster. He threatens lawsuits but when he is challenged and the lawsuit is accepted, he either backs down, or in the case of E. Jean Carroll followed through and lost, and still didn't learn his lesson when she took him back to court and won 82 million dollars, because he could keep his trap shut. E. Jean Carroll said it best, to his face "he is nothing"!! Harvard told him basically to pound sand, that they weren't going to capitulate. Some people placate him to his face, but screw him behind his back. I hope the press is going develop a backbone and start peppering him with questions, and follow up, to where he can't articulate a response quick enough. Where the hell are the Woodward and Bernstein's of today??? I think we are exhausted with the last 10 - 15 years of this asshole spouting off whatever comes to mind and the press covering it like it is the some outstanding statement, when it is just garbled nonsense!! He is no smarter than any of us sitting here watching what is going on. His opinions on the Middle East and stealing their oil really pisses me off, who the hell is he??? His anti-Muslim rhetoric and quite frankly most people's opinions on Muslims and the Middle East are based on stereotypes. We have this attitude that we are right and they wrong and that they have no right to exist. We have this attitude that they should not be allowed to defend themselves because somehow their ideology causes them to be a threat, yet we attacked them. We didn't even have the backing of the people via Congress, or our allies. But, somehow, we are the good guys. And when you watch everything this all looks like real estate deal, I mean, of course you send in Jared Kushner and Steve Witcoff to negotiate complex nuclear issues considering the enrichment of uranium. Of course, I mean Jared put forth the new plans for Gaza, looks like a gentrification plan for a neighborhood, displacing the current residents. Oh, Lord help us. How, how, did people put these people into places and give so much power and with little or no pushback, It is astonishing, And everything Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and even Joe Biden said it coming to fruition ... and it is 100X's worse than we thought., "While you weren't being political" < === my tagline!!
I don't drink. I've been drunk only once in my life and vowed never to let that happen again. It was over Christmas vacation and with my best friend at home in New York. We both got drunk at his house and I was so inebriated the room was spinning around menand tilting so I felt I would slide off, and I threw up. The next morning I had a horrible hangover, but had to endure a 14 hour bus ride back to Michigan State.
Just reading this Hartmann report would have been enough to sober me up.
But, as we all know, the the 25th and impeachment are never going to happen. Hopefully we still will be able to vote in November, but the damage to our reputation has already been done.
I support the premise of impeachment and removal from office. Johnson won’t let the house bring the articles. If the articles of impeachment I doubt that 22 republican senators will vote for conviction.
Geez Loueez Thom, do you have to ramp up your writing style to scare the living Jesus out of us? Every now and then I have run into a description of the Antichrist (look it up) which I have always found to be mythical. This guy makes the description nominal....
He is watching his world crumble. Unlike a typical mob boss who just has to maintain fear and worry about the other local bosses, he now sees he is no longer safe within his power bubble.
This is different. We are watching our whole structure showing signs of becoming dysfunctional.
The don’s power bubble is looking pretty wobbly, now. He has so many threatening scenarios surrounding him and so many legal indictments staring at him, he’s facing his own personal Armageddon and is fast pulling the rest of us into it with him.
Instead, of dethroning a petty criminal, we are watching an imploding star. And, like this ex-star who believes he rules us, we, as a country, are imploding, too, as a leader on the world stage.
Unfortunately, we are being influenced and affected by some pretty powerful other bodies in the heavens, now, who like black holes, are fast siphoned off all the energy of our implosion.
Instead of merely changing politics, we will very soon have much in common with Venezuela, a vanquished territory with little world clout merely fighting the entropy while ignoring the fact that we are no more.
This is the direct results of a relative handful of very stupid and/or very greedy people with self-aggrandizing visions, along with their minions who were dissatisfied with their place in the status quo.
We have no cohesive unit, at present. We are filled with people so diverse in emotional intelligence and so lacking in common sense, it turns out, that the only quick action we can take as a country anymore is destructive ones.
Out played and out gunned by hubris. Instead of working together and seeing a bright future for all of us, I’m afraid only the cockroaches will take note.
For unique analysis on Iran War please read on Substack: Retired Analyst Mike.
What the press is reporting today I wrote about 2 weeks ago.
Thom, I would like to be guest on your show where I can go through my analysis and you and your audience can ask me detailed questions.
Trump only knows how to negotiate by making threats. Do not make impossible demands. The other side will only come back with their own impossible demands. If we used this tactic against the USSR we would have had no arms control or the fall of the wall. Trump would have insisted that the USSR was no longer a communist government before we could do arms control.
It's really telling of our society that we would need to pressure **any** of our representatives to can Trump in light of his vile spoken intentions to murder an entire civilization, but somehow - here we are.
Members of Congress played along to get in office and stay there.
Why? Because it's a lucrative position. Maintaining and garnering personal wealth is more important than serving constituents. It's the American way.
You're absolutely, disgustingly correct. Too bad.
For some reason, I continue to be surprised at the sycophancy of the GOP legislators. There is a slim chance that a third impeachment is possible but almost no chance of a 2/3 vote for conviction in the Senate. And I think that Trump considers impeachment to be much the same as a ribbon on his chest to show his cultists how much he has been persecuted.
An impeachment without removal? He has had two of them,yet there he sits the twice impeached president. 25th Amendment? Yeh, with that ass kissing cabinet and senate.
And, for the 25th Amendment to be applied, Vance has to be actively involved. I don’t think he has the guts to face the wrath of Trump’s cultists.
Not just Trump's cultists,but those like the paypal mafia that have their hand up his backside.
Defeatism.
Yeh right, you and Jerry Weiss are going to defeat Trump.All hail the conquering hero, the great and mighty Daniel Solomon.
To paraphrase the chant from the '60's, all we are saying is give it a chance.
You are negative...resentful..
Resentful of Trump, and the pantywaist politicians that helped him get there, by their milquetoast actions and slopping at the Wall Street Trough.
You betcha.
If being realisitic is negative, then I am negative. You are still so puffed up with your self importance, that you are insufferable.
You insert yourself into every scenario as if you were an expert. Not just opinions, we all have those, but an expert and if someone doesn't agree with you, they are full of shit, the enemy, a troll, negative, defeatist.
Your lack of ability to engage, belies your claimed expertise and credentials.
Thanks Charles i agree. Maybe when west coast gas prices move east some GOP pols and constituents will change their MAGA minds.
How does one depose a regime. By voting? Ya gotta try but don't hang your hopes on it, not when the regime controls all of the levers of power, and has pre rigged the vote.
The only hope is for an internal collapse of the regime as in Chile, or a collapse from without as in Italy and Germany. note that the Franco regime never collapsed until he died.
Well, I guess we can take hope in his death as being more realistic than our fading options. Which is fading faster, his mind or his body?
As Joyce's book is titled, "Giving Up is Unforgivable".That must be our mantra.
Our HOPE is that he is found face planted on the floor in front of his golden toilet clutching his cellphone in mid text.
Only takes.a few Republicans....
Failing in other attempt, the way to bring him down from the inside is resistance, and I don't mean marching with signs either. Resistance requires the ability to tolerate pain, because effective resistance will required everyone to endure pain.
My guess is (due to Iran) inflation will go high enough to cause stagflation and a angry public. Money talks. If he can't stop or fix midterms he's looking at investigations and being found guilty of pedophilia, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors.
Good luck expecting everybodt to their boddies on the line, but millions are showing up to let them know there are more of us than them.
That's great, but the regime has shown that it doesn't care who or how many shows up, he just launches and AI meme of himself piloting a plane dumping shit on the crows.
The only thing that counts is direct action.
Yes, I think we all noticed that. Common Cause is asking for volunteers to be poll watcheers. Our every word here is being monitored so even a use of a word will be picked up by the algorilla be reported. What they are doing is not legal. That should justify the same by us? There are safe and secure EU online search and email systems the are end to end enctypted. Open one of those and re-subscribe to Stack and whoever and then you can use the words we cannot use here to describe actions we can take.
The PATRIOT act was drawn up during the Clinton Admin, shelved awaiting an event to justify enacting it.
Along came 9/11, this highly complex act which would have taken months of debate and admendments was ;pulled out of the filing cabinent, rused through and of the many things it did, was authorize a National Data collection Center, which was built at Bluffdale, UT. The complex is massive, five huge buildings that contain servers, and now with AI being what it is, it can and must assuredly does, sniff every bit of digital and electronic communications, except those that are analog,on both ends, meaning they are'n't transmitted the aether.
Even our comments are being captured, analyzed and stored.
We won the cold war. Roughly 20 soviet republics are no more.
We didn't win the cold war, the USSR fell from within. And why did it fall? Because it was a failed economic experiment and needed to be reorganized. And the right man was fond for the job, Gorbachev. His reward was a healthy life time retirement, a dacha on Lake Geneva, and the Presidency of an NGO created especially for him "the Green Cross"
Exactly, but the people of our country lost as our billionaire weapons industry (Ike's MIC) got all the money and are still winning today and are taking our country for themselves as we talk of this or that failed poicy and Putin ends up in control as our nation's collapse frees him to do whatever he wants. DJT has done his job well. He is expecting the blonde lady staffed dacha near St. Pete in the countryside. We'll see.
According to Putin, people like George Soros undermined the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin has not directly blamed George Soros for the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union itself, but he and his government have frequently accused Soros of meddling in Russian affairs immediately following the collapse and during the 2000s.
As usual, you are full of shit. Google. He and Russian state media have heavily blamed Soros and his Open Society Foundation for interfering in post-Soviet Russia and encouraging political instability. The Kremlin views Soros's philanthropic funding in the 1990s as a deliberate, aggressive campaign designed to undermine Russian sovereignty and spread Western liberalism.
I'd like to think WE (not you) had something to do with it. During the late Soviet era (mid-1980s), the American Bar Association pursued engagement with Soviet lawyers, aiming to promote legal reform and "justice under the Rule of Law". Critics argued this engagement legitimised a repressive system, while proponents hoped it would foster democratization. The initiatives often highlighted the stark contrast between Soviet "party-controlled" law and Western legal norms.
Some of my colleagues went to countries lile Russia, Poland, Rumania to teach American law to eager lawyers and judges who craved a fair judicial system. Later, I was adjuct faculty....
No doubt Thom is right, trump should be impeached. Unfortunately that isn't in the cards as Thom pointed out he has only loyal yes men and women around him. However it looks like no one is going to bail him out of the Iran situation, not, Roy Cohn, Micheal Cohen, Fred Trump, Mitch McConnell, no one. My guess is the Iranians will drag out negotiations, as the longer they do, the more money they will make ... above and below the table. Time is on their side. Recession here we come. As prices go up Trump's disapproval numbers will go up as well. Accordingly, I believe we are seeing the beginning of the end of him.
Howard Stern and Trump broadcast on Stern's show that having intercourse with clinically crazy women was great, but, said Trump, and I paraphrase: You wouldn't want to keep them around beyond the act.
Well, MAGA is addicted to hate, as those two are [were] addicted to sex w/ crazies. And that's what Donald sold them: HATE. So, being MAGA they voted for him a 3rd time.
However, in the same way that Howard and Donald agreed that a crazy partner should be discarded right after the fact, MAGGOTS've gotten their hate of non-Whites/non-Christians/non-Straight Men . . . now they need to discard him. We ALL do.
Pronto!!!
VOTE also #DRAFT Trump's sons NOW.
You have a point.
Thom incorrectly put all of the blame on trump here. God, unfortunately, gave us free will. What about the MAGAs and Congress? All of us with a brain saw what a horror he was in his first term, yet MAGAs used their free will to vote him in again. Congress used its free will not to overthrow him after two impeachments in his first term and to continue to turn a blind as he sledgehammers the world in this one. All the while the rich get richer and the middle class evaporates into poverty....
Psychopaths like Trump, Orban, Putin, etc. take advantage of the open nature of democracy to seize power and wreak havoc on their societies and the world. We may have to put in firewalls that would restrict the blessings of liberty to those persons who exhibit normal empathy for their fellow humans.
Most frightening is that, despite all this, tens of millions of Americans worship him. Once again proving Mencken's cynicism to be well founded.
If it walks like a mobster, talks like a mobster, bites like a mobster - it's a mobster. Do you think mob prosecutor Giuliani being on the Don's team was a coincidence? Rudy got to be mayor for imprisoning hordes of racketeers based on information he got from competing mob Dons. They made him mayor so they would have free rein under his reign.
How does one emerge from 6 serial bankruptcies as a billionaire? Real estate rents and sales is a great way to launder mob money for the Russians - ya know, guys like Putin. Racketeers & mobsters get rich by extortion. Do this for me, or I will fk you up! That was obviously Don Dementiano's approach to getting Iran to do his bidding. Only it looks like he underestimated Iran. When that happens, the mob Dons usually form partnerships - surely that is the next tactic.
The funny thing is, he is all bluster. He threatens lawsuits but when he is challenged and the lawsuit is accepted, he either backs down, or in the case of E. Jean Carroll followed through and lost, and still didn't learn his lesson when she took him back to court and won 82 million dollars, because he could keep his trap shut. E. Jean Carroll said it best, to his face "he is nothing"!! Harvard told him basically to pound sand, that they weren't going to capitulate. Some people placate him to his face, but screw him behind his back. I hope the press is going develop a backbone and start peppering him with questions, and follow up, to where he can't articulate a response quick enough. Where the hell are the Woodward and Bernstein's of today??? I think we are exhausted with the last 10 - 15 years of this asshole spouting off whatever comes to mind and the press covering it like it is the some outstanding statement, when it is just garbled nonsense!! He is no smarter than any of us sitting here watching what is going on. His opinions on the Middle East and stealing their oil really pisses me off, who the hell is he??? His anti-Muslim rhetoric and quite frankly most people's opinions on Muslims and the Middle East are based on stereotypes. We have this attitude that we are right and they wrong and that they have no right to exist. We have this attitude that they should not be allowed to defend themselves because somehow their ideology causes them to be a threat, yet we attacked them. We didn't even have the backing of the people via Congress, or our allies. But, somehow, we are the good guys. And when you watch everything this all looks like real estate deal, I mean, of course you send in Jared Kushner and Steve Witcoff to negotiate complex nuclear issues considering the enrichment of uranium. Of course, I mean Jared put forth the new plans for Gaza, looks like a gentrification plan for a neighborhood, displacing the current residents. Oh, Lord help us. How, how, did people put these people into places and give so much power and with little or no pushback, It is astonishing, And everything Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and even Joe Biden said it coming to fruition ... and it is 100X's worse than we thought., "While you weren't being political" < === my tagline!!
I don't drink. I've been drunk only once in my life and vowed never to let that happen again. It was over Christmas vacation and with my best friend at home in New York. We both got drunk at his house and I was so inebriated the room was spinning around menand tilting so I felt I would slide off, and I threw up. The next morning I had a horrible hangover, but had to endure a 14 hour bus ride back to Michigan State.
Just reading this Hartmann report would have been enough to sober me up.
But, as we all know, the the 25th and impeachment are never going to happen. Hopefully we still will be able to vote in November, but the damage to our reputation has already been done.
I support the premise of impeachment and removal from office. Johnson won’t let the house bring the articles. If the articles of impeachment I doubt that 22 republican senators will vote for conviction.
Geez Loueez Thom, do you have to ramp up your writing style to scare the living Jesus out of us? Every now and then I have run into a description of the Antichrist (look it up) which I have always found to be mythical. This guy makes the description nominal....
He is watching his world crumble. Unlike a typical mob boss who just has to maintain fear and worry about the other local bosses, he now sees he is no longer safe within his power bubble.
This is different. We are watching our whole structure showing signs of becoming dysfunctional.
The don’s power bubble is looking pretty wobbly, now. He has so many threatening scenarios surrounding him and so many legal indictments staring at him, he’s facing his own personal Armageddon and is fast pulling the rest of us into it with him.
Instead, of dethroning a petty criminal, we are watching an imploding star. And, like this ex-star who believes he rules us, we, as a country, are imploding, too, as a leader on the world stage.
Unfortunately, we are being influenced and affected by some pretty powerful other bodies in the heavens, now, who like black holes, are fast siphoned off all the energy of our implosion.
Instead of merely changing politics, we will very soon have much in common with Venezuela, a vanquished territory with little world clout merely fighting the entropy while ignoring the fact that we are no more.
This is the direct results of a relative handful of very stupid and/or very greedy people with self-aggrandizing visions, along with their minions who were dissatisfied with their place in the status quo.
We have no cohesive unit, at present. We are filled with people so diverse in emotional intelligence and so lacking in common sense, it turns out, that the only quick action we can take as a country anymore is destructive ones.
Out played and out gunned by hubris. Instead of working together and seeing a bright future for all of us, I’m afraid only the cockroaches will take note.
For unique analysis on Iran War please read on Substack: Retired Analyst Mike.
What the press is reporting today I wrote about 2 weeks ago.
Thom, I would like to be guest on your show where I can go through my analysis and you and your audience can ask me detailed questions.
Trump only knows how to negotiate by making threats. Do not make impossible demands. The other side will only come back with their own impossible demands. If we used this tactic against the USSR we would have had no arms control or the fall of the wall. Trump would have insisted that the USSR was no longer a communist government before we could do arms control.