Board of Peace🤣🤣🤣More like a board of dictators who want to band together with the most disgusting pedophile fascist in the world. God, I can’t wait until he’s gone.
tRump has absolutely NO INKLING WHAT PEACE IS, for starters. Then there is our grifter-in-Chief charging other countries huge amounts of money to join this alleged Board Of Peace. Where is any accounting or transparency relating to these vast payments? How much of it is tRump and his family appropriating to themselves? It is very clear from his lifetime behaviors that tRump never does anything unless he believes he can profit financially from it. Yes, often he failed at making the amount of money he'd anticipated, but he has been consistently using the presidency from the first day of his first term as a means to enrich himself and his family and cohorts. I am quite sure this Board Of Peace is simply another part of the grifting, another way to take money from anyone stupid enough to make it available to the Mango Manure Pile.
Do we really want to return to "normal"? Is that the best we can hope for? Over the decades "normal" led us to the wreck of the Republican Party and the Trump administration. We need to take a very close look at this "normal."
By "normal," I meant at least free from dysfunction, overtly and grossly political. In other words, a Department of Justice pre-Trump.
It seems to me that, yes, that's the best we can hope for. As you said, the Pre-Trump "normal" over the decades did lead to Trump, but most voters never imagined Trump was such a narcissistic psychopath - that's what the World is stuck with as we speak.
Why voters seem to have inexplicably re-elected him, I think, in my opinion, is because they have been seriously brainwashed.
Inexplicable, really? I guess racism and ignorance *could* be called the result of "brainwashing," but the process has been out in the open for decades. Too many millions of white USians have willingly, eagerly, had their brains washed. It's what they voted for in 2016, 2020, and 2024 -- but in 2024 they knew next to nothing, if anything, about Project 2025. Which was out in the open for those who cared to see it.
Add in the end of the Fairness Doctrine, the consolidation of corporate-owned mainstream media (which isn't, I think you'll agree, what the founders had in mind when they drafted the 1st Amendment), and especially the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision (2010) that opened the floodgates to campaign spending.
Unfortunately it seems it had to get this bad before "we the people" started paying attention and understanding what we were seeing.
You said a lot there. As for your first sentence, "inexplicable" was a lousy choice of words for me to have used, as you rightly questioned. "Surprisingly" might have been a better word. Or better yet, no adverb-type word at all.
As for your second sentence, yes, it's true that racism and ignorance have been out in the open for decades and are not the result of brainwashing.
Trump has been, and is, (possibly unknowingly?) using brainwashing in order to get both elected and re-elected, as well as with other things he does. Voters, lawmakers, and especially his opponents are his targets.
He inflicts his brainwashing by using repetitive lies, gaslighting, making threats, demanding loyalty, and spreading propaganda, all of which can be or are components of brainwashing.
It's unfortunate that so many millions of Americans, many of whom are smart people, are so susceptible to simultaneously being both brainwashed and conned.
Yes, telling people what they want to hear does work pretty well. That's why, even if I wanted to, I could never be a politician. With a background in science, I tell people facts ("just the facts, ma'am") regardless of what they want to hear.
You mentioned the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. That decision gets my dander up every time I think about it. It was almost the Worst Decision ever from that court because speech and money are two entirely different things, and equating the two is unconscionable, in my opinion.
"Supremacist ideology, racism, corruption, and extreme misogyny." No wonder findings are pointing to Israel. Those characteristics excepting I suppose the last fit the apartheid-genocide state (Israel is only "Jewish" like Mussolini's Italy was Roman Catholic) to a T.
Dozing Diaper Donald HAS TO GO! Between his Epstein crimes and his total disregard for the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution prohibiting him from receiving gifts, he's committed enough crime to be locked away for many, many years. If you're on the left, get out to vote blue and encourage your relatives, friends and neighbors to do the same. With his political future at stake you know he'll cheat with Musk's help to rig the mid-terms.
My "Contact Me" message today to my Republican congressional representative was:
"Congressman Xxxxx:
After all this time, you have not spoken out about the lawless, criminal, unconstitutional, and cruel activities of Trump and his administration.
The dismissal of your Catholic faith, your oath of office, and the empathy, compassion, and love taught us all by Jesus, is incomprehensible.
That is the truth of what it has come to with you.
At this point, if you do not speak out against the Department of Justice breaking the law and refusing to pursue justice regarding the Epstein Files, you have but one choice.
Board of Peace🤣🤣🤣More like a board of dictators who want to band together with the most disgusting pedophile fascist in the world. God, I can’t wait until he’s gone.
tRump has absolutely NO INKLING WHAT PEACE IS, for starters. Then there is our grifter-in-Chief charging other countries huge amounts of money to join this alleged Board Of Peace. Where is any accounting or transparency relating to these vast payments? How much of it is tRump and his family appropriating to themselves? It is very clear from his lifetime behaviors that tRump never does anything unless he believes he can profit financially from it. Yes, often he failed at making the amount of money he'd anticipated, but he has been consistently using the presidency from the first day of his first term as a means to enrich himself and his family and cohorts. I am quite sure this Board Of Peace is simply another part of the grifting, another way to take money from anyone stupid enough to make it available to the Mango Manure Pile.
Looking long-term, I'm left wondering whether the Department of Justice will ever be normal again. How long, if ever, will it take?
Do we really want to return to "normal"? Is that the best we can hope for? Over the decades "normal" led us to the wreck of the Republican Party and the Trump administration. We need to take a very close look at this "normal."
Very interesting comment!
By "normal," I meant at least free from dysfunction, overtly and grossly political. In other words, a Department of Justice pre-Trump.
It seems to me that, yes, that's the best we can hope for. As you said, the Pre-Trump "normal" over the decades did lead to Trump, but most voters never imagined Trump was such a narcissistic psychopath - that's what the World is stuck with as we speak.
Why voters seem to have inexplicably re-elected him, I think, in my opinion, is because they have been seriously brainwashed.
Inexplicable, really? I guess racism and ignorance *could* be called the result of "brainwashing," but the process has been out in the open for decades. Too many millions of white USians have willingly, eagerly, had their brains washed. It's what they voted for in 2016, 2020, and 2024 -- but in 2024 they knew next to nothing, if anything, about Project 2025. Which was out in the open for those who cared to see it.
Add in the end of the Fairness Doctrine, the consolidation of corporate-owned mainstream media (which isn't, I think you'll agree, what the founders had in mind when they drafted the 1st Amendment), and especially the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision (2010) that opened the floodgates to campaign spending.
Unfortunately it seems it had to get this bad before "we the people" started paying attention and understanding what we were seeing.
You said a lot there. As for your first sentence, "inexplicable" was a lousy choice of words for me to have used, as you rightly questioned. "Surprisingly" might have been a better word. Or better yet, no adverb-type word at all.
As for your second sentence, yes, it's true that racism and ignorance have been out in the open for decades and are not the result of brainwashing.
Trump has been, and is, (possibly unknowingly?) using brainwashing in order to get both elected and re-elected, as well as with other things he does. Voters, lawmakers, and especially his opponents are his targets.
He inflicts his brainwashing by using repetitive lies, gaslighting, making threats, demanding loyalty, and spreading propaganda, all of which can be or are components of brainwashing.
It's unfortunate that so many millions of Americans, many of whom are smart people, are so susceptible to simultaneously being both brainwashed and conned.
FWIW
Telling people what they want to hear, or think they want to hear, works pretty well -- until, I hope, it doesn't.
Yes, telling people what they want to hear does work pretty well. That's why, even if I wanted to, I could never be a politician. With a background in science, I tell people facts ("just the facts, ma'am") regardless of what they want to hear.
You mentioned the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. That decision gets my dander up every time I think about it. It was almost the Worst Decision ever from that court because speech and money are two entirely different things, and equating the two is unconscionable, in my opinion.
"Supremacist ideology, racism, corruption, and extreme misogyny." No wonder findings are pointing to Israel. Those characteristics excepting I suppose the last fit the apartheid-genocide state (Israel is only "Jewish" like Mussolini's Italy was Roman Catholic) to a T.
Thank you New Mexico.
Dozing Diaper Donald HAS TO GO! Between his Epstein crimes and his total disregard for the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution prohibiting him from receiving gifts, he's committed enough crime to be locked away for many, many years. If you're on the left, get out to vote blue and encourage your relatives, friends and neighbors to do the same. With his political future at stake you know he'll cheat with Musk's help to rig the mid-terms.
Thank you Mary….
Any chance of using the RICO act on the Epstein situation? Or is that aiming too low?
My "Contact Me" message today to my Republican congressional representative was:
"Congressman Xxxxx:
After all this time, you have not spoken out about the lawless, criminal, unconstitutional, and cruel activities of Trump and his administration.
The dismissal of your Catholic faith, your oath of office, and the empathy, compassion, and love taught us all by Jesus, is incomprehensible.
That is the truth of what it has come to with you.
At this point, if you do not speak out against the Department of Justice breaking the law and refusing to pursue justice regarding the Epstein Files, you have but one choice.
You must resign."