I look forward to your columns and miss you when you have to take a break. This must be SO hard for you. Hang in there and know that you are performing a much-needed service and that you have many hearts with you. ❤️
World War II America also wasn't "Great" for the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were illegally imprisoned because they happened to resemble the people of one of our wartime enemies: Japan.
Here's the thing, tRump selected a majority of high profile TV hosts for his cabinet. Why??? Because he wants MAGA to feel a false sense of security trough familiarity. MAGA is easily lead with visual propaganda and are limited with critical thinking. Perfect storm for manipulation.
Now we have Dr. Wizard of Oz as Cheif of Medicare and Medicade, another made up position to push them both to privatization.
Please highlight this with your platform. Thank you.
PJ-and Other readers: this is also what is happening now with the former Postmaster General who recently resigned. He was Trumps highest individual campaign donor. He owns a HUGE logistics company so, what did Trump do? He offered him inside access to the Post Office as the PosterMaster General. Now, recently, the PMG decided it was time for him to step down and on way out, he stated the Post Office should be moving toward privatization. What a valuable political payback gift he was given. Remind you of anymusk else? We the U.S. of Trump are being royally screwed, and the wealthy continue to gain even more. Headed for a modern day feudalistic society.
It's so sad! I use to follow a non-denomination pastor on YouTube for years. He taught right from the Bible,it took critical thinking. Now, he has incorporated tRump propaganda into his teachings. He's lost his critical thinking! Some of the MAGA base willfully gave up their critical thinking. This pastor has over 1 million followers with millions of views.
Food for thought, this pastor moved from Africa to the California early 2024. You decide... Ties with Muck and tRump? Bent th knee?
Not trying to be argumentative, I had much fun, but I remember more. For some it was great, but I was protesting for Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Women’s Rights and a little later, Gay Rights aka LGBTQ Rights. I also had my older brother in Vietnam, so I protested against the war. Watching B-52’s flying over my city daily, Kennedy assassinated, lynchings, Cold War, Bay of Pigs, Nuclear showdown with the Russians, testing the air raid sirens, Duck n Cover like that would stop vaporization by nukes, watching the Vietnam war in real time or shortly after, seeing whites only signs, seeing Black and Native American Americans abuse or murdered in my own little city, Watergate, Nixon delaying the war so he could help himself get elected and getting more of my friends killed, and plenty more.
Having been born in the early 50’s your experiences were very similar to mine. Because I was born shortly after the end of WWII, I also heard all of the stories. What is happening now is too familiar. I worry that our young people are so far removed from the history of the last eighty years that they aren’t able to comprehend the similarities between Nazi Europe and what is happening now in America. If this administration is allowed to continue on its current path, I fear that history will repeat itself and the fight for democracy will become an intense reality.
Sandra Nickerson, I share your fear. We are escalating rapidly toward the same horrors. I am younger, but had an autistic brother who was like a walking encyclopedia of Natzi & WWII history. I have noticed young adults do seem to be interested in and do watch historical documentaries.
I worked with autistic students for 19 years. Each one of them possessed a genius ability in one area or another. I can only imagine how brilliant his knowledge was of WWII. Some passed at a young age, others are now in their 30’s. Amazing lives. 🌷
I was also a teen during the 60's and remember those years. I'm retired now but have worked with mental health clients and with autistic adults (in their 20's). I have witnessed that genius ability.
"America is not the project of any one person. It’s not the project of any one party. It is the project of all of us. And it is a project that is constantly improving. And we make mistakes. But what makes America special is that we can admit those mistakes and we can strive to correct them."
---President Barack Obama
We’re in a dark place right now, and it’s tough to see our cherished ideals fading. But we’ve been here before, and while regression can be frightening, we can turn this around if we stay patient and persistent. Let's hold onto hope and support each other. Together, we can navigate this challenge and work towards a brighter future. Every effort counts, and our ideals of equality, life, liberty, and happiness for all are worth fighting for. Thank you, Mary, for your tireless efforts in fighting for all of us!
Mary, swearing artfully is an adult decompression device. There's swearing and then there is vulgarity. Even we little old ladies, who try to watch our language, are peppering our speech, saying 'fuck" with the frequency of comma usage. I used to be offended. Now I am not. I also fully participate. Barrages of f-bombs used to make me cringe, but now, well, I'm likely to respond to a fuck-filled tirade with "Fuckin' A, dammit!" So, in my humble, Mary, don't hold back. It could cause a brain fart, which is worse than a pollen-induced choking fit. Please stay healthy 💙
I'll go you one better: I'm just glad nobody can read minds. The things I SHOUT in private, to just myself, I would, no doubt under King Kong Dumpty, I would be arrested for.
I just got back from a nearly 5-week vacation: one traverse across an ocean (Atlantic - South); three continents; 14 countries; and the fellow travelers onboard our ship. Access to your program was, unfortunately, limited.
This wasn’t your standard, 10,000+ passengers … all bellied up to the bar - drunk and loud; we were fewer than 6,000, with an unbelievable majority disgusted with the piece-of-shit currently farting and leaving stains on the furniture in the White House. Probably 60% of the travelers were US citizens, and over 90% of those with whom I had conversations were truly disgusted at having to tell people they’re American. Those locals we met; to the individual wanted to know how a POS like your uncle could be President … AGAIN, after the debacle of his first term!
He cheated. GOP cancelled voter registrations without notice. Long time voters showed up to vote, had been disenrolled , and were offered provisional ballots, which were never counted. Et cetera. See Gregory Palast on Substack. Forensic economist, journalist.
I believe that he cheated also. Wondered why no one even questioned the final results, never said a peep about his cheating and all he did to win. He didn’t win, he can’t win without cheating, in my opinion.
Agreed in full. Gregory Palast talks about this. Both he and this guy had points I had not known. And dumpft dumpy pants has rendered closed/essentially closed the departments responsible for election security and coordination with the states.
I don’t label it “the good old days,” but I look somewhat fondly on the late 1960s, when I was a young adult who eagerly (and furiously) protested against The War; for abortion choice; for women’s rights; for gay rights (though I wasn’t a lesbian). The Vietnam War was horrible, of course. We all suffered as we watched the war every night. But for ardent young people then, it was a special and very hopeful time.
The war was coming, isolationism was strong after WWl, but finally got going late, and if we would have joined at the outset, I believe it would have been shortened, possibly before the need or want of the two bombs. Just my thoughts.
Air Force General Curtis LeMay ordered the deaths of more civilians than any other military officer in American history. No one else comes close—not Ulysses S. Grant, not William T. Sherman, and not George S. Patton. “I’ll tell you what war is about. You’ve got to kill people and when you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.” Over the course of nearly three hours, an attack by the United States Army Air Forces killed as many as 100,000 people — more than some estimates of the number killed the day of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey later wrote that “probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a six-hour period than at any time in the history of man.”
In an interview with U.S. Air Force historians in 1988, USAF General Curtis LeMay, who was also head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, commented on efforts to win the war as a whole, including the strategic bombing campaign, saying, “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too......Over a period of three years or so we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population of Korea, as direct casualties of war or from starvation and exposure?”Pyongyang, which saw 75% of its area destroyed, was so devastated that bombing was halted as there were no longer any worthy targets. By the end of the campaign, US bombers had difficulty in finding targets and were reduced to bombing footbridges or jettisoning their bombs into the sea.Is it any wonder that North Korea is the way it is?
As I recall it, Japan refused to surrender! Some of the most unspeakable atrocities were the by the Japanese army. See Bataan Death March; prisoner of war camps, etc.
We A-bombed an entire city of civilians in Hiroshima. Then we bombed more civilians in Nagasaki. Civilians, some of whom survive to this day and tell their stories on Japanese public media NHK. They were children on those bombing days and they managed to live to this present day. We have been targeting civilians ever since, which is the Heritage Foundation's goal among its many goals.
Bataan Death March! Japanese refused to surrender!! Kindly read the full story of the Japanese desire for war and how brutally it was conducted. “Three Came Home”, etc.
I disagree. America and it's allies stopped Hitler. War is never a good thing, BUT WE ENDED IT. And we debate how it ended was horrendous, BUT...it ended.
Yes I remember 2015. That was the good old days, for me. The economy was generally doing pretty well, human rights seemed to be growing around the world, fascism was pretty well defeated. America was a beacon of freedom, never perfect but striving to be better… HIV and AIDS rates were decreasing world wide, measles was considered possible to eradicate, polio was nearly extinct, America had a Black president, and a female Secretary of State… two big firsts, and despite my darkest fears, that Black President survived to be inaugurated, serve his first term, and his second, without anyone assassinating him for being a Black man who was charming, intelligent, measured, classy, handsome and honest. That was no idealistic fairy land, but it was the “good old days” compared to this current living nightmare where the world’s most powerful nation is ruled by a psychopathic narcissist dictator who has taken court rulings and thrown them I the trash.
Up until Depraved Donald returned to our People's House, no Executive Order could, nor can it now, eliminate a Constitutional Amendment. Just like Depraved Donald cannot declassify our documents in his empty, fetid (or foetid, if you prefer) skull, where only a foul stench resides. The Scribbler (or Dribbler) in Chief can believe whatever he likes, but that EO is weak piffle.
I look forward to your columns and miss you when you have to take a break. This must be SO hard for you. Hang in there and know that you are performing a much-needed service and that you have many hearts with you. ❤️
The IMMIGRANT Queen MELANIA should be in the DEPORTATION List?
All of his wives!
And her dad and son?
hope so, anti-american woman
The lawlessness isn’t a perception, it’s a procedural fact. Without due process = lawlessness.
It‘s beyond despicable what narcissistic, corrupt, sociopathic Trump and all his corrupt cronies are doing to the USA
Add: Sadistic.
Another way to say it: Without Due Process = Hell.
World War II America also wasn't "Great" for the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were illegally imprisoned because they happened to resemble the people of one of our wartime enemies: Japan.
Yes that was horrible
Here's the thing, tRump selected a majority of high profile TV hosts for his cabinet. Why??? Because he wants MAGA to feel a false sense of security trough familiarity. MAGA is easily lead with visual propaganda and are limited with critical thinking. Perfect storm for manipulation.
Now we have Dr. Wizard of Oz as Cheif of Medicare and Medicade, another made up position to push them both to privatization.
Please highlight this with your platform. Thank you.
PJ-and Other readers: this is also what is happening now with the former Postmaster General who recently resigned. He was Trumps highest individual campaign donor. He owns a HUGE logistics company so, what did Trump do? He offered him inside access to the Post Office as the PosterMaster General. Now, recently, the PMG decided it was time for him to step down and on way out, he stated the Post Office should be moving toward privatization. What a valuable political payback gift he was given. Remind you of anymusk else? We the U.S. of Trump are being royally screwed, and the wealthy continue to gain even more. Headed for a modern day feudalistic society.
We the people don't want our Medicare privatized
PJ: You're being WAY too kind; MAGAts have zero, nada, NO critical thinking skills. They don't even know what it is.
It's so sad! I use to follow a non-denomination pastor on YouTube for years. He taught right from the Bible,it took critical thinking. Now, he has incorporated tRump propaganda into his teachings. He's lost his critical thinking! Some of the MAGA base willfully gave up their critical thinking. This pastor has over 1 million followers with millions of views.
Food for thought, this pastor moved from Africa to the California early 2024. You decide... Ties with Muck and tRump? Bent th knee?
Makes sense. And faux hosts were already trained to spew nonsense on command.
You’re too young, but the 1960s were glorious for us, then, teens. Long live RockNRoll
Not trying to be argumentative, I had much fun, but I remember more. For some it was great, but I was protesting for Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Women’s Rights and a little later, Gay Rights aka LGBTQ Rights. I also had my older brother in Vietnam, so I protested against the war. Watching B-52’s flying over my city daily, Kennedy assassinated, lynchings, Cold War, Bay of Pigs, Nuclear showdown with the Russians, testing the air raid sirens, Duck n Cover like that would stop vaporization by nukes, watching the Vietnam war in real time or shortly after, seeing whites only signs, seeing Black and Native American Americans abuse or murdered in my own little city, Watergate, Nixon delaying the war so he could help himself get elected and getting more of my friends killed, and plenty more.
Having been born in the early 50’s your experiences were very similar to mine. Because I was born shortly after the end of WWII, I also heard all of the stories. What is happening now is too familiar. I worry that our young people are so far removed from the history of the last eighty years that they aren’t able to comprehend the similarities between Nazi Europe and what is happening now in America. If this administration is allowed to continue on its current path, I fear that history will repeat itself and the fight for democracy will become an intense reality.
Sandra Nickerson, I share your fear. We are escalating rapidly toward the same horrors. I am younger, but had an autistic brother who was like a walking encyclopedia of Natzi & WWII history. I have noticed young adults do seem to be interested in and do watch historical documentaries.
I worked with autistic students for 19 years. Each one of them possessed a genius ability in one area or another. I can only imagine how brilliant his knowledge was of WWII. Some passed at a young age, others are now in their 30’s. Amazing lives. 🌷
I was also a teen during the 60's and remember those years. I'm retired now but have worked with mental health clients and with autistic adults (in their 20's). I have witnessed that genius ability.
Agreed, ditto.
My exact memories. Medger Evers, Marin Luther King, and Kennedy all assassinated. Lots of Civil unrest.
Woodstock love everyone
Woodstock was an escape. While musicians wrote of rebellion, Woodstock was a haven to get away from chaos of politics & war.
And Motown!!!
The Immigrant MUSK WIFE’s HAREM should be included in THE DEPORTATION List too!!
"America is not the project of any one person. It’s not the project of any one party. It is the project of all of us. And it is a project that is constantly improving. And we make mistakes. But what makes America special is that we can admit those mistakes and we can strive to correct them."
---President Barack Obama
We’re in a dark place right now, and it’s tough to see our cherished ideals fading. But we’ve been here before, and while regression can be frightening, we can turn this around if we stay patient and persistent. Let's hold onto hope and support each other. Together, we can navigate this challenge and work towards a brighter future. Every effort counts, and our ideals of equality, life, liberty, and happiness for all are worth fighting for. Thank you, Mary, for your tireless efforts in fighting for all of us!
If 47 is the child of an immigrant, can he be deported??
King Dumpty, being the malignant cancerous narcissist that he is, is chockful of hypocrisy. He decrees all persons follow his rules, but him.
Hmm maybe 🤔
Thank you for what you do.
Mary, swearing artfully is an adult decompression device. There's swearing and then there is vulgarity. Even we little old ladies, who try to watch our language, are peppering our speech, saying 'fuck" with the frequency of comma usage. I used to be offended. Now I am not. I also fully participate. Barrages of f-bombs used to make me cringe, but now, well, I'm likely to respond to a fuck-filled tirade with "Fuckin' A, dammit!" So, in my humble, Mary, don't hold back. It could cause a brain fart, which is worse than a pollen-induced choking fit. Please stay healthy 💙
I'll go you one better: I'm just glad nobody can read minds. The things I SHOUT in private, to just myself, I would, no doubt under King Kong Dumpty, I would be arrested for.
I just got back from a nearly 5-week vacation: one traverse across an ocean (Atlantic - South); three continents; 14 countries; and the fellow travelers onboard our ship. Access to your program was, unfortunately, limited.
This wasn’t your standard, 10,000+ passengers … all bellied up to the bar - drunk and loud; we were fewer than 6,000, with an unbelievable majority disgusted with the piece-of-shit currently farting and leaving stains on the furniture in the White House. Probably 60% of the travelers were US citizens, and over 90% of those with whom I had conversations were truly disgusted at having to tell people they’re American. Those locals we met; to the individual wanted to know how a POS like your uncle could be President … AGAIN, after the debacle of his first term!
He cheated. GOP cancelled voter registrations without notice. Long time voters showed up to vote, had been disenrolled , and were offered provisional ballots, which were never counted. Et cetera. See Gregory Palast on Substack. Forensic economist, journalist.
I believe that he cheated also. Wondered why no one even questioned the final results, never said a peep about his cheating and all he did to win. He didn’t win, he can’t win without cheating, in my opinion.
Agreed in full. Gregory Palast talks about this. Both he and this guy had points I had not known. And dumpft dumpy pants has rendered closed/essentially closed the departments responsible for election security and coordination with the states.
I don’t label it “the good old days,” but I look somewhat fondly on the late 1960s, when I was a young adult who eagerly (and furiously) protested against The War; for abortion choice; for women’s rights; for gay rights (though I wasn’t a lesbian). The Vietnam War was horrible, of course. We all suffered as we watched the war every night. But for ardent young people then, it was a special and very hopeful time.
Stop talking about WWII as the US greatest achievement. It was one big string of mass murder events. There were no good guys in that war.
Especially dropping A-bombs on Hiroshima. Unspeakable, back when unspeakable meant unspeakable.
The war was coming, isolationism was strong after WWl, but finally got going late, and if we would have joined at the outset, I believe it would have been shortened, possibly before the need or want of the two bombs. Just my thoughts.
Air Force General Curtis LeMay ordered the deaths of more civilians than any other military officer in American history. No one else comes close—not Ulysses S. Grant, not William T. Sherman, and not George S. Patton. “I’ll tell you what war is about. You’ve got to kill people and when you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.” Over the course of nearly three hours, an attack by the United States Army Air Forces killed as many as 100,000 people — more than some estimates of the number killed the day of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey later wrote that “probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a six-hour period than at any time in the history of man.”
In an interview with U.S. Air Force historians in 1988, USAF General Curtis LeMay, who was also head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, commented on efforts to win the war as a whole, including the strategic bombing campaign, saying, “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too......Over a period of three years or so we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population of Korea, as direct casualties of war or from starvation and exposure?”Pyongyang, which saw 75% of its area destroyed, was so devastated that bombing was halted as there were no longer any worthy targets. By the end of the campaign, US bombers had difficulty in finding targets and were reduced to bombing footbridges or jettisoning their bombs into the sea.Is it any wonder that North Korea is the way it is?
As I recall it, Japan refused to surrender! Some of the most unspeakable atrocities were the by the Japanese army. See Bataan Death March; prisoner of war camps, etc.
We A-bombed an entire city of civilians in Hiroshima. Then we bombed more civilians in Nagasaki. Civilians, some of whom survive to this day and tell their stories on Japanese public media NHK. They were children on those bombing days and they managed to live to this present day. We have been targeting civilians ever since, which is the Heritage Foundation's goal among its many goals.
Bataan Death March! Japanese refused to surrender!! Kindly read the full story of the Japanese desire for war and how brutally it was conducted. “Three Came Home”, etc.
I disagree. America and it's allies stopped Hitler. War is never a good thing, BUT WE ENDED IT. And we debate how it ended was horrendous, BUT...it ended.
Dictators like Hitler, Putin and Stalin cannot be appeased!
The good guys were the ones who didn’t start the war but answered it!!
Yes I remember 2015. That was the good old days, for me. The economy was generally doing pretty well, human rights seemed to be growing around the world, fascism was pretty well defeated. America was a beacon of freedom, never perfect but striving to be better… HIV and AIDS rates were decreasing world wide, measles was considered possible to eradicate, polio was nearly extinct, America had a Black president, and a female Secretary of State… two big firsts, and despite my darkest fears, that Black President survived to be inaugurated, serve his first term, and his second, without anyone assassinating him for being a Black man who was charming, intelligent, measured, classy, handsome and honest. That was no idealistic fairy land, but it was the “good old days” compared to this current living nightmare where the world’s most powerful nation is ruled by a psychopathic narcissist dictator who has taken court rulings and thrown them I the trash.
Up until Depraved Donald returned to our People's House, no Executive Order could, nor can it now, eliminate a Constitutional Amendment. Just like Depraved Donald cannot declassify our documents in his empty, fetid (or foetid, if you prefer) skull, where only a foul stench resides. The Scribbler (or Dribbler) in Chief can believe whatever he likes, but that EO is weak piffle.