Nah, poor guy, he's made out of play-dough and Cheetos dust. He' ll just continue to stare into space and doze off punctuated by his tm'd hair weave of asshattery outbursts. I wish he had had better (or even good enough) parents tho. That might have spared the nation and world order from tilting off its axis.
Well, while some of that might true. His hair weave is certainly a freakish nightmare. But I beg to differ about having “better parents”.
I grew up in a household that was a perpetual WAR ZONE. My mother was married 4 times, my first 2 fathers were alcoholics. My first stepfather was a sexual predator and I know from personal experience. Poverty was a daily issue. I often went to bed hungry. I felt tremendous shame.
Yet I not only survived, but I refused to accept defeat and their version of life. So I kept pulling myself up, learned from their mistakes and committed myself to never repeat their behavior.
I earned a medical degree, a masters degree, wrote a book, have taught and lectured students and peers, and have helped people from different backgrounds from all over the world reverse their chronic diseases by simply using food as primary medicine.
And I’ve met hundreds of people who were traumatized by difficult childhoods. But they dealt with it in constructive ways.
So. While I’ll respect your opinion, I can attest to the fact that “better parents” isn’t necessarily the problem. His parents had the financial means to send him to private schools and Wharton. And I think Mary’s father was a kind and good man.
Yes. DJT is a deprave, deviant who has severe psychopathic disorders. But are his parents the cause? He could have made better choices for himself. He could have chosen a better path, a better life annd committed himself to making the world a better place. Instead he relishes and thrives on doing harm to others.
The problem with his parents, specifically his father - who was also a psychopath - wasn't abuse, it was spoiling little Donny to death. He could do whatever he wanted. He could do no wrong. And he apparently inherited the old man's psychopathy.
Agree, there weren’t many boundaries in his early life. None he took seriously anyway. And Fred Trump taught his children, primarily the boys - that “they must be "killers" or "kings" to succeed, reinforcing the belief that the world is divided into predators and weaklings.”
Eventually when Donny was 13, he was sent to a military academy to learn “values” and “discipline”.
His interactions with other students -
“Loudmouth Bully": Childhood neighbors and NYMA classmates described Trump as a "loudmouth bully" who would hurl insults and push people around.
“Physical Altercations: In one notable incident at NYMA, after a dispute over a messy room inspection, Trump reportedly tried to push a fellow cadet, Ted Levine, out of a second-floor window before other students intervened. Levine stated that within the academy's culture, such aggression was seen as a sign of strength.
"Iron Fist" Dormitory Rule: Biographer Marc Fisher noted that Trump "ruled dormitory life with an iron fist" and yelled at his classmates.
Trump carried that bullying attitude with him into his adult life. And he has stated openly that hates to lose and he’s extremely vindictive.
Mary trump describes him in her book, TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH
“Psychologist Mary Trump: Why Pres. Trump Hates Losing”
Donald J Trump is the BIGGEST LOSER most of us have ever had the disgusting experience of seeing, hearing, or smelling. A first class jerk. Winners are people like FDR, MLK, and countless unsung heroes and heroines who do great and good in the world. Trump never has, and never will. TRUMP IS A LOSER, in my view.
What an absolutely hideous face this deranged man has. Stupidity and evil. He is just the front for the Billionaires (Stephen Miller, Leonard Leo, Peter Thiel, Russell Vought, and the rest of these unconscionable thugs. Their game is to DESTROY the United States ENTIRELY, and steal every bit of wealth in it for themselves. Read Timothy Snyder's February 2, 2025 short article on this. It is mind blowing ) "Thinking About").
He is really, really stupid, though, which needs to be factored in. He has never succeeded in a single good thing, as far as I have been able to find out.
Agree. He’s been an utter failure at everything. Except he’s now the POTUS again, and - he’s presumably the most powerful person in the world - with a chip on his shoulder, with unfettered immunity, a belly filled with rage and revenge and no moral compass. And he is hellbent on destroying our country and even burning the entire planet down, to prove a point.
What mind was left to lose? Trump was always allowed… aided and abetted….to march to the beat of his ego . The problem is the approval votes 🗳️ n last election from blind-sided voters who didn’t stop to question his messed up
He lost it years and years ago. His upbringing by a father that taught him the false values of wealth deserves entitlement, that strength lays in never admitting error and self respect comes only at stepping on those one considers less than himself. 45 was molded to be the insane being he is, and his only route of escape was blocked by those who use his addiction to the need for attention (something his father NEVER gave him) will lead humanity to the extinction level event they were already headed toward, simply sooner than later.
I’ve actually been following DJT’s career since the mid 1980’s when I was living/working in Manhattan around the corner from trump tower. His reputation as a liar, cheat, racist bigot, conman, bully, womanizer and sexual predator who assaulted women preceded him.
And since then I have done extensive research into both his professional and personal history, perhaps because I also grew up in an extremely dysfunctional family, far worse than his, which involved alcoholics, poverty, hunger, physical brutality, fear, chaos and shame. But in spite of all that, I chose to pull myself out of the hopelessness of all those traumatic years and excel, as I described above.
I also have a minor degree in psychology, focused on deviant behavior. So, even though I’m not a trained clinical psychologist like Mary Trump is, I’m well aware of Trump’s deviancies.
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
I think the great Renaissance Itlian author Dante... has returned from the grave to add two new lowest rings of his "Inferno." One for all Dear Leader's sycophants who've aided the deliberate suffering of humans, & the lowest for IQ45 & Vlad.
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
How do we pull ourselves back when so many have been corrupted by the disease of hate, cruelty, prejudice, and egregious wealth? Even when he is gone, the viral stench will remain.
They will crawl back under their rocks and the Democrats will undo much of the damage he’s done, but it will take a long time to repair our relationships with allies. I still can’t believe there are people who think he’s great.WTAF!
As long as the possibility exists that the Heritage magats could gain power again, means other countries will not trust us for a long time unless / until gop can reinvent themselves
For starters I thought 501c3 s can’t have tax exempt status if they are political in nature. It was talked about last year and I can’t quite remember what the loophole is…think tank??? or educational??? Gulp.
I guess a tax attny could clarify.
Now is Charles one of the two Koch bros? I never bothered to mem their first names as I have no real use for storing conservative Donaldtrumpsupporters in mah bwain.
I looked up a project 2025 tracker but it came up as unsafe. I was going to check how much has been accomplished. 50%? 70%?? I heard they already have a project 2026-27 up and running. Putting the dems to shame.
Also isn’t it ironic that the Fascist Leader is saying he is ‘cocked and ready’ to defend protesters in Iran whilst at home people are taking to the streets and being murdered on the school,run ?
Name me three times once the Democrats returned to power did they remind or revoked anything Trump did, or any program or order, get out of jail free cards, Supreme Court pics, or any law that was reminded, cancelled or removed from any previous Republican President after the Democratic president came to power...
You can't because it has never really happened except in the most egregious circumstances e.
Against my better judgment, I am going to take your questions seriously. Let’s focus on Biden’s reversals of signature Trump policies. Here’s the top ten, via Gemini 3 prompt:
“During his term, President Joe Biden prioritized dismantling many of the signature initiatives of the Trump administration, often using executive orders to do so immediately upon taking office.
Here are the top ten significant reversals of Trump-era policies under the Biden administration.
1. Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement
* Trump Policy: In 2017, President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, arguing it disadvantaged the U.S. economy. The withdrawal formally took effect in November 2020.
* Biden Reversal: On his first day in office (January 20, 2021), Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the accord, recommitting the U.S. to international goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Halting the Border Wall Construction
* Trump Policy: A central campaign promise, Trump declared a national emergency to divert billions in military and other federal funds to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
* Biden Reversal: Biden issued a proclamation ending the national emergency declaration and immediately paused all construction projects and funding diversion related to the border wall.
3. Ending the "Muslim Ban" (Travel Bans)
* Trump Policy: Early in his presidency, Trump issued executive orders (commonly referred to as the "Muslim Ban") that restricted travel from several Muslim-majority nations, as well as certain African countries, citing national security concerns.
* Biden Reversal: Biden revoked these proclamations on Day One, calling them discriminatory and stating they harmed U.S. alliances and families.
4. Revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline Permit
* Trump Policy: The Trump administration had issued a presidential permit to allow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project designed to carry oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, which had been blocked by the Obama administration.
* Biden Reversal: Biden revoked the cross-border permit for the pipeline, effectively killing the project. He cited climate change concerns and the need to transition to a clean energy economy.
5. Reversing the Transgender Military Ban
* Trump Policy: In 2017, Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military, reversing an Obama-era policy that allowed them to serve openly.
* Biden Reversal: Within his first week, Biden signed an executive order repealing the ban, allowing qualified transgender individuals to serve in the Armed Forces and prohibiting discharge based on gender identity.
6. Rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO)
* Trump Policy: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump moved to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO, accusing the organization of mismanagement and being too deferential to China.
* Biden Reversal: Biden halted the withdrawal process immediately and appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the head of the U.S. delegation to the WHO, restoring U.S. funding and participation.
7. Restoring Federal Workforce Protections (Schedule F)
* Trump Policy: Late in his term, Trump issued an executive order creating "Schedule F," a new employment category that would have stripped civil service protections from tens of thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire and replace with political appointees.
* Biden Reversal: Biden revoked the Schedule F order, restoring job protections and collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
8. Fortifying DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)
* Trump Policy: The Trump administration attempted to rescind the DACA program, which protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ("Dreamers") from deportation.
* Biden Reversal: Biden issued a memorandum directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to "preserve and fortify" DACA, signaling a return to the Obama-era stance of protecting Dreamers.
9. Restoring National Monuments (Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante)
* Trump Policy: President Trump significantly reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, opening the land up to potential mining and drilling.
* Biden Reversal: Biden issued proclamations restoring the monuments to their original boundaries, protecting millions of acres of land and cultural sites sacred to Native American tribes.
10. Census Count Inclusion
* Trump Policy: The Trump administration sought to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count used for apportioning congressional seats and Electoral College votes.
* Biden Reversal: Biden signed an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to count all residents, regardless of immigration status, ensuring that apportionment is based on the total population as has been traditional practice.”
Many dems are no better than Trump. Several whom the libbies kneel for are keeping him in office. They have harassed those trying to impeach the orange fool and his minions.
Well, I don't kneel for anyone. I don't love all democrats and I certainly would never support the democrats voting with republicans against our citizen's and country's best interest. Never align with fascists. Ever. I don't care who you are. One example: I sure never hear of any democrat or progressive voters supporting Fetterman anymore.
Dems in congress and/or the senate ? If you’re referencing individual(s) who are in the house or senate, what would one or more of those individuals motive(s) be to obstruct a fellow democrat or democrats from moving on Trump ?
People don't understand how articles of impeachment actually work which is that they don't when it's the minority party drawing up articles of impeachment when there are no members in the majority party to support the action. The speaker of the house in the majority party totally controls what comes to the floor for a vote, no way would Johnson allow that to happen. The only way he could be forced to allow a vote on impeachment would be a discharge petition but that again requires members of the majority party to sign the petition. Though enough repugnican reps were willing to sign the discharge petition to allow a vote on releasing the Epstein files there's no way dems would get any to sign a petition to allow a vote on articles of impeachment. Even were a miracle to occur and we got enough signatures on a discharge petition *and* got enough repugnicans to vote for impeachment the likelihood of the Senate repugnicans breaking partisan lines and voting to convict/remove Trump is nil! We already been there done that in his last term and it's 99.9% certain we'd have the same outcome this time. Turns out it's a waste of time filing articles of impeachment when the desired and deserved outcome of conviction and removal is DOA from the start.
When he’s gone, we will have an opportunity to make this a better Union. It will take everyone pushing that wheel. We also need to call out haters of all kinds.
I am absolutely stunned by the level of hatred that has raised its ugly head, above whatever level it was in the U.S., since Trump came on the scene in 2015. Angry, bigoted and hatred filled people are emboldened now. I’d argue, because of Trump. I see his anger, unapologetic, ignorant and childish behavior has acted like a contagion. Infesting people that are vulnerable, ignorant, angry, or in a position to gain more power or control, like Trump himself….it’s simply mind boggling. Trump relishes in harming people he perceives as his enemies, whether they simply disagree, challenge or threaten his views. Absolute insecurity. And all of this disfunction has spilled over into every neighborhood, school and workplace in the country. It’s heartbreaking that over 70 million adults cast a ballot for him….TWICE !
I’ve lost friends and some family members will not speak to me. I’m not complaining. I just don’t understand it. Am I blind, or are they ?
It seems friends and family members have chosen division over their care for you/me/us!! So were they just faking concern or blood/friendship connecting affections all this time?!?!
Yes! Someone who gets it. We must be united to restore our Republic and protect the Constitution from the den of fools trying to destroy the rule of law which now presides.
The many haters you mention were always there, they were just given the leeway to exercise their hate in the open. I feel like they amount to at most 15 to 20%.
When the dust settles, they will all slither back under their rock for another 80 years or so, hopefully.
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
If you ask a non-wealthy MAGA who attacks you on social media why they want billionaires to get a huge tax break, the silence is deafening.
Somewhere along the line they have forgotten that there are moral obligations in a civilized society for taxpayers: the safety, health and security of EVERYONE
Where do they believe their pandering and enabling will take them ? What are they gaining other than $ and attention from people who live in the same silo.
Sadly the damage he’s already done is so vast, both internally and internationally, turning it round will take several generations. Decades. Perhaps a 100 years. America has proven itself untrustworthy, unreliable and avaricious. A smash and grab hooligan. Trump will end, but now the international community knows there’s a huge number of MAGA people there that could turn around and do it all again with another fascist leader at any point. It’s going to take a lifetime to educate and somehow lead the bad apples into a new way of thinking.
His legacy will be that he did SFA for the country while enriching himself, his family and friends at the expense of the American people. F🖕🏻CK Off Downs Syndrome Donnie‼️
TIM ALLEN- ON TRUMP: Whatever your feelings on Trump, these are some interesting points that Tim Allen makes. Put your hatred aside, and think about these observations. Tim Allen is credited with writing this...
Tim Allen wrote: Here are some interesting points to think about prior to 2020, especially to my friends on the fence, like moderate Democrats, Libertarians and Independents, and the Never Trump Republicans, and those thinking of "walking away" from the Democrat Party:
*Women are upset at Trump’s naughty words- they also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.
*Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.
*No Border Walls. No Voter ID laws. Did you figure it out yet? But wait...there's more....
*Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year. Her Mom flies around the country speaking about white priviledge. And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.
*President Trump’s wall cost less than the Obamacare website. Let that sink in, America!
*We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion, nationally. We are fighting evil.
*They sent more troops and armament to arrest Roger Stone, than they did to defend Benghazi.
*60 years ago, Venezuela was 4th on the world economic freedom index. Today, they are 179th, and their citizens are dying of starvation. In only 10 years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.
*Russia donated $0.00 to the Trump campaign. Russia donated $145,600,000 to the Clinton Foundation. But Trump was the one investigated!
*Nancy Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union. President Trump invited victims of illegal aliens to the State of the Union. Let that sink in!
*A socialist is basically a communist who doesn't have the power to take everything away from their citizens at gunpoint...Yet!
*How do you walk 3,000 miles across Mexico without food or support, and show up at our border 100 pounds overweight and with a cell phone?
*Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wants to ban cars, ban planes, give out universal income, and thinks socialism works. She calls Donald Trump crazy.
*Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to Paula Jones to get her to go away. I don't remember the FBI raiding his lawyer's office.
*I wake up every day and I am grateful that Hillary Clinton is not the President of the United States of America. The same media that told me Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning, now tells me that Trump’s approval ratings are low.
*"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."- Margaret Thatcher
*Maxine Waters opposes Voter ID laws; She thinks that they are racist. You need to have a photo ID to attend her town hall meetings.
*President Trump said "They're not after me. They're after YOU. I'm just in their way."
*Now go Back and read this Again like your Future Depends upon it, Because it Does!
You Liberal's wrote the book on disinformation, and we don't have to share shit with you! It's OUR turn to make the decisions for this country, and one's that will be for the benefit of ALL Americans! Y'all will pay for the 10 years you put this country through…starting in January 2026…many grand jury indictments…going all the way up to Obama, and I hope they cook his sorry ass!
Obama has Presidential Immunity for official acts while in office, yet at a bare minimum, he can be named as an unindicted co-conspirator, yet when you're dealing with CONSPIRACY charges, there are no statutes of limitations. The rest of his cronies and Deep State actor's WILL see jail time though, and draining the Swamp is one of Trump’s mandates…and Trump follows through on all his promises.
When the downfall of your criminal uncle happens, Mary, I hope his dementia has not progressed so far that he doesn’t know it is happening. I want him to experience it. I want him to see the explosion of joy throughout the land when he is no longer in power.
He has stolen one or more of my last remaining years from me by his actions and i only pray i live long enough to see him and everyone of his sycophants destroyed
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
I agree and from where I sit outside the US we can’t believe what we are seeing, but we are all in our reality bubbles now and the maga ones, particularly those created by Fox News, are captured in alternate facts aka lies, that means many won’t come back to a real fact based perspective. The dems assumed incorrectly that trump’s despicable nature would be enough to win, it wasn’t and TBH they need to realise that if a majority of Americans want the border under control then they need to recognise that. At some level trump is the change agent no one wants, hopefully the US will swing back from the polarised state it is in, I feel the next generations are more progressive and know the American dream is now less attainable than ever, unless you are born into inherited wealth, but it feels there is a police state/ Gestapo, whatever you want to call ICE so well funded now that it may build enough momentum to suppress the people for a very long time…. as Putin has done.
The psychology of accountability is fascinating. Studies show narcissistic personalities genuinely cannot process failure, their brain's selfprotection mechanisms literally rewrite memories. The pain isn't just for those around them, it's existential.
Excellent writing. My favorite part is the way you define why he’s never going to admit his mistakes. I believe in this. It’s my observation from his past, your books, etc… he would choose to fall before admitting he was stumbling. In the end, I hope to see justice for his victims and truth prevail in our government. My eyes are on that prize. Long live the survivors in happiness and health!
Roy was an evil genius who used his talents to hurt innocent people. May his immortal soul rot in hell. Thank you for your response because I know that you are educated on this subject.
So true and so astutely written, Mary. We all continue to be gobsmacked at how this has happened. I never would have imagined that the US harbored so many rudderless, soulless politicians. I'm sure they all sleep well at night, too, while we can't.
I’m not gobsmacked. This is exactly what has been happening for 10.5 years. He’s an idiot. A bumbling, incompetent idiot, who has risen because of his father — all laid out perfectly in Mary’s first book. As soon as they stop healthcare, trans issues, and vaccines, they move on to more nefarious policies and practices. He WILL wag the dog in Venezuela. People will continue to die in immigration camps because they are too inept to articulate a reasonable policy and frankly, they enjoy making people suffer. I’m real tired of fake Christians making people suffer. And the Epstein files, omg. Of course he was involved with young girls. There are pictures. There are depositions, and we’ve seen film of him with his daughter. I left gobsmacked behind after watching him mock a disabled person. Think about Gary Hart and Howard Dean and what ended their political ambitions. Our country is screwed.
It's been happening longer than that - the last 25yrs at least, but I would say all the way back to Reagan, when the idea of 'trickle-down economics' was created to muffle and misdirect any anger against the super rich, when we began to deregulate business and industry so they could cut corners and maximize profits at the expense of their workers, when it became normal to openly demonize people on govt benefits of any kind, and the disastrous, failed 'War on Drugs' went into high gear, etc. Every successive president only deepened the crises we were facing as a nation, on one front or another, despite a few gains. To be sure the last 10.5yrs accelerated it, but for example, the first incarnation of MAGA was the Tea Party. And the Christo-fascist Religious Right goes back to 1979 & the so-called Moral Majority, who invented the extreme anti-abortion movement out of wholecloth in order to split off, galvanize and mold all evangelical Christians into a lockstep Conservative voting base. One that could, by welding them to the GOP, carry them into a future where religion was law and Christo-fascists the rule. That, more than anything, has been HF's mission - to eventually realize a Christian form of sharia law, ie. religious law that applies to all citizens whether they believe or not. The corporate technocrats have found them very useful, as a front for the oligarchy which is consolidating true power behind the scenes. The dark money governs all, which is fine with them since the Christo-fascists worship money and power more than any god.
It’s probably always been with this country. I go back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy, which points back to the Civil Rights era, and then back to Reconstruction and the Civil War. Which then reminds us of States’ Rights and the Electoral College because of the founding of the country with slavery.
Bingo - all of it ultimately goes back to race, and the racists who wanted to keep slavery so much, they fought a war and invented a new religion (or at least the biggest schism since the Reformation), Evangelical Christians, and they've been fighting ever since to be allowed to legally discriminate and make racist laws again, to undo the CRA entirely so black people can be segregated again, and worse.
It's all ultimately about racist whites wanting to hold onto their prejudices and have that be the norm instead of frowned upon, and poor/working class white people buying into the lies about how it's a zero sum game, that minorities are being given an advantage by DEI (somehow) and taking their jobs, so on and so forth. They want back the times when a mediocre white man would be chosen before any black or brown person, no matter how skilled.
That's why Trump cannot STAND that Obama got a Nobel and he couldn't, nevermind that he's not actually smart or capable enough to do something that merits one; to him a black man cannot out-achieve him on the face of it. He can't accept or even really process it - the world should not be allowed to work that way, point blank.
Combine the real-time cognitive decline that is on display almost every single day with the certainty that he will stop at absolutely nothing to save his own ass, and you have one of the - if not THE - most dangerous people on the planet.
When the crowd cheered Trump’s mocking dismissal of John McCain’s war heroism — “He was a war hero because he was captured” — is the moment the GOP lost its soul. I still can’t believe Lindsey Graham gave Trump the time of day after that. But Graham is emblematic of the craven pursuit of power and access which enables Trump and Trumpism.
Graham is a wuss. I'm guessing he's in the Epstein closet. He was too joyous when he thought the E files would not be released. He was crying into his hands, like a baby.
And the people that make excuses for him….the enabling people are in the U.S. Senate, congress and his entire cabinet. He’s somehow managed to put many of the checks, in the right places on the checker board.
The saving grace here is that Trump is incapable of learning from his mistakes. Were he capable of doing do, he could very easily have won in 2020. Were he capable of doing so, he would have, as several wise observers have suggested, just allowed the Biden economic recovery to continue while DJT just played golf and coated his office wall with golden bling.
But he can’t, and in that fact lies his greatest gift to us. As a would-be tinpot dictator, he’s an utter failure, but he has showed us just enough of what a far more competent autocrat might have done to alert more and more of us, including his own supporters, to the risk his agenda poses for this nation.
The Trump presidency has done what no normal presidency could have, awakened us to the fragility of our Republic after years or widespread complacency, too steeped in the idea that our government was far more secure than it is.
He is nothing more than a stooge for the evil people propping him up. The Heritage Foundation, Peter Thiel, tech bros, J.D. Vance, profit-mongers, TurningPoint USA, etc. are NOT going away. Hatred of trump is a distraction that we're all paying dearly for, while the cogs churn behind his scenes.
That’s a bit too simplistic. He is doing as much or more for them than they are doing for him. Had Hillary won in 2016 (which, at least by the pppular vote, she did), we wouldn’t be anywhere near here. Had Joe Biden not made the disastrous decision to run for a second term, the Democrats might have found someone (not necessarily Ms Harris0 able to beat Trump in 2024, we wouldn’t be here.
There are many strings in play in this orchestral extravaganza,
Now who's being simplistic? Do you not understand that those things don't even matter? They had no bearing on the outcome of the election - do you not realize Musk basically admitted to hacking the voting machines infrastructure to actually, literally steal the election this time? That exit polling and other measures show Harris actually did win? No matter who the candidate, they wouldn't have been *allowed* to just win, because the techbros had decided that Trump made an excellent figurehead AND distraction, able to keep the outrage cycle going while they dismantle what's left of democracy and dig their dirty little AI surveillance tendrils deep into the 'government' that's left.
It will already take decades to undo what's been done to capture and distort our systems of power, law and justice, unless we just replace the government entirely, and even then, there will be things we don't even know about which will remain in the shadow government oligarchy that has been established, still trying to influence and direct society in the way they think it should go - but from the shadows. Because they know, they've outright _admitted_ that the people, the voting public would never vote for the things on their agenda. Their goal is to force social changes by completely bypassing real, fair elections and voting, because they're not electable and their agenda is widely unpopular and they know it. Same goes for the Christo-fascists.
They already know they can never, will never win a free and fair election, but they are determined to put their vision in place in spite of that, by hook or by crook, and they've already done it once. And NOT enough people have woken up to, or see what's really going on behind the scenes, behind and beyond Trump - everyone in the *unredacted* Epstein files, all the billionaires, techbros, industry magnates and corporate conglomerate titans, all the rabid fascists who are wanting to put religion and/or Nazi ideology, often both, up as the law of the land because they're all either racist as fuck or simply don't care what happens to 'those people' - immigrants, minorities, LGBTQs, the disabled - at the bottom of their preferred order of society.
Left wing conspirators and their theories are no more useful than those on the right.
Had there been any indication at all that the 2024 election had been ‘stolen’ by the right, the Democratic Party would have lanched an all-out legal battle almost from Day One (as the right did after 2020, even without any indication of voter fraud).
You need to accept the reality and work to alter it in time for 2026. Claims that Harris won in 2024 are at best useless and at worst just more fodder for the right wing nuts.
- the Dems would have launched an all-out legal battle: WRONG. They passively accepted the result *in spite of* all the evidence that it was tampered with, because Dem party leadership is largely spineless and passive. They have not been, and not been capable of, going on the offensive in a long time, not in any effective way.
It’s not a conspiracy theory if there is real evidence. It's reality, and I'm sorry you're so committed to your naiveté. Most of us know better, and we also know that simply 'claiming' or making a statement that Harris won or trying to fight it, isn't the point at all - it's that we cannot *trust* our electors, voting machines or any digital counts in elections anymore, none of our current electoral process, so passively waiting around for the next elections to maybe shift the balance is pointless. We should still vote while we can, but we CANNOT rely on it to resolve this crisis of democracy.
Actively protesting and resisting, both online and off, making sure to stand up or speak up and be counted, encouraging others to do the same, standing up for our neighbours against ICE thugs who have no real legal authority, refusing to play ball by joining the boycott of the worst parts of the corporate capitalist hellscape (Amazon, Target, Disney, Walmart, etc) and so on, are far more effective ways to show how many of us there are who will resist and oppose this fascist regime until our last breath.
Refusing to see all the ways that Republicans have allowed techbro billionaires and super-rich oligarchs to manipulate and compromise our democratic process, and how serious the problem has become, is merely willful blindness that does little but passively *support* the regime, by giving it a legitimacy it has NEVER deserved.
It's not about left vs. right, not really - it's about the common man vs. the oligarchs & super rich & megacorps trying to use and suppress us ALL, to usurp all levers of power in our society, and take complete authoritarian control of the govt, such as is left of it - and inasmuch as they don't control most of it indirectly through dark money already. You are focused on the distraction, not the enemy. This is a vertical war.
"the Dems would have launched an all-out legal battle: WRONG. They passively accepted the result *in spite of* all the evidence that it was tampered with, because Dem party leadership is largely spineless and passive. “
History from your viewpoint really doesn't matter. I'm looking at the future of the players in this regime, and how they'll affect our fight to get this country back on track.
I’m not expressing an historical point of view, simply stating the fact that Trump’s actions have created a growing backlash and a realization of what could happen if he is not stopped, a realization of our fragility and the apparent inability of the Constitution as it now exists to reign him in. Without him, this realization wouldn’t have happened.
The future is unknown. There is no real historical guide here because Trump’s actions are almost entirely unprecedented in American presidential history. Nor have we ever had some of the things that have so enabled his agenda - notably the internet.
Have it your way. "Simplistic" works for most people, without all the hand-wringing about Clinton and Biden. Fact is, the actors behind trump have been writing their Project 2025 prequels since 1980, while too many liberal-minded voters waited for democracy to lend itself to their individual wishes. We're far too privileged in this country, if we couldn't see this (the trump regime) coming.
Actually Project 2025 ‘prequels’ have been in progress since at least the 1880’s (See Heather Cox Richardson’s To Set Men Free, her story of the transformation of the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Trump), and many have seen something like Trump coming in the personages of the Robber Barons, the obsessive right wing opposition to FDR’s New Deal, Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, et al. Indeed, such people have peopled our history, going back to almost to our founding. There has always been the tension between those who believed in democracy, however flawed, and those who did not.
Indeed, many of the Founders recognized the threat someone like Trump would pose. But they knew as well that to put in place enough hard guardrails to prevent a Trump would doom the Republic. As they themselves did with Washington, they knew it would ultimately rest on us to continue to choose at least rationally if not always wisely.
What wasn’t at all clear was the power of the internet, which has changed everything. Donald Trump won in 2016 in large measure because he used the internet to go straight to the people, over the heads of the Republican establishment, which recognized much of the threat he posed, said so, and then, when they saw that he’d outmaneuvered, like many in Germany in the 1930’s mistakenly figured they could use him to further their own agendas.
Other factors - among them globalization which in many ways did the opposite of what its defenders assumed it would - level the playing field across the globe.
Indeed, Trump has always been in the wings - and this time we let him take center stage.
While I don’t typically wish ill on others, he and his regime are a notable exception. They have caused incalculable harm, and are capable of no remorse.
I think of you often, Mary, and what you must be going through being related to this maniac who is burning everything within and without his path on a worldwide scale. My husband's brother, a sociopathic narcissist, murdered his own wife and spent 32+ years in prison. Never has shown remorse. Was "community leader/organizer-fun runs and such, took over the father's optometry business, Boy Scout Leader, paints Walt Disney characters and Kinkaid type paintings, blonde and good looking to his disadvantage. Looked a bit like a young Kirk Douglas when he himself was younger. It's not easy having a family member like this. I absolutely hate him and what he did to my husband's emotional state and to his family's. I read most things you write and speak. I truly feel for you. You have to take extra good care of yourself. You must survive. WE must survive. I see in this article you think we can prevent falling off the slope with him and his sycophants, if I read that correctly. What keeps you hopeful?
May his continuous sliding end in an abyss with no return.
Methinks we’re watching deranged Donny have a nervous breakdown in real time. He’s losing his friggin’ mind!
Nah, poor guy, he's made out of play-dough and Cheetos dust. He' ll just continue to stare into space and doze off punctuated by his tm'd hair weave of asshattery outbursts. I wish he had had better (or even good enough) parents tho. That might have spared the nation and world order from tilting off its axis.
Well, while some of that might true. His hair weave is certainly a freakish nightmare. But I beg to differ about having “better parents”.
I grew up in a household that was a perpetual WAR ZONE. My mother was married 4 times, my first 2 fathers were alcoholics. My first stepfather was a sexual predator and I know from personal experience. Poverty was a daily issue. I often went to bed hungry. I felt tremendous shame.
Yet I not only survived, but I refused to accept defeat and their version of life. So I kept pulling myself up, learned from their mistakes and committed myself to never repeat their behavior.
I earned a medical degree, a masters degree, wrote a book, have taught and lectured students and peers, and have helped people from different backgrounds from all over the world reverse their chronic diseases by simply using food as primary medicine.
And I’ve met hundreds of people who were traumatized by difficult childhoods. But they dealt with it in constructive ways.
So. While I’ll respect your opinion, I can attest to the fact that “better parents” isn’t necessarily the problem. His parents had the financial means to send him to private schools and Wharton. And I think Mary’s father was a kind and good man.
Yes. DJT is a deprave, deviant who has severe psychopathic disorders. But are his parents the cause? He could have made better choices for himself. He could have chosen a better path, a better life annd committed himself to making the world a better place. Instead he relishes and thrives on doing harm to others.
The problem with his parents, specifically his father - who was also a psychopath - wasn't abuse, it was spoiling little Donny to death. He could do whatever he wanted. He could do no wrong. And he apparently inherited the old man's psychopathy.
Agree, there weren’t many boundaries in his early life. None he took seriously anyway. And Fred Trump taught his children, primarily the boys - that “they must be "killers" or "kings" to succeed, reinforcing the belief that the world is divided into predators and weaklings.”
Eventually when Donny was 13, he was sent to a military academy to learn “values” and “discipline”.
His interactions with other students -
“Loudmouth Bully": Childhood neighbors and NYMA classmates described Trump as a "loudmouth bully" who would hurl insults and push people around.
“Physical Altercations: In one notable incident at NYMA, after a dispute over a messy room inspection, Trump reportedly tried to push a fellow cadet, Ted Levine, out of a second-floor window before other students intervened. Levine stated that within the academy's culture, such aggression was seen as a sign of strength.
"Iron Fist" Dormitory Rule: Biographer Marc Fisher noted that Trump "ruled dormitory life with an iron fist" and yelled at his classmates.
Trump carried that bullying attitude with him into his adult life. And he has stated openly that hates to lose and he’s extremely vindictive.
Mary trump describes him in her book, TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH
“Psychologist Mary Trump: Why Pres. Trump Hates Losing”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-the-bully-how-childhood-military-school-shaped-the-future-president
THAT book is an excellent read - for anyone who wonders how Trump get so “effed-up” in his life.
Most was the fault of both parents, and rest is just his CHOICE.
You made the right choices. All good ones. Very commendable, and great to know, that you choose to do what is right.
Ironic, that Trump "hates losing" as you remark.
Donald J Trump is the BIGGEST LOSER most of us have ever had the disgusting experience of seeing, hearing, or smelling. A first class jerk. Winners are people like FDR, MLK, and countless unsung heroes and heroines who do great and good in the world. Trump never has, and never will. TRUMP IS A LOSER, in my view.
What an absolutely hideous face this deranged man has. Stupidity and evil. He is just the front for the Billionaires (Stephen Miller, Leonard Leo, Peter Thiel, Russell Vought, and the rest of these unconscionable thugs. Their game is to DESTROY the United States ENTIRELY, and steal every bit of wealth in it for themselves. Read Timothy Snyder's February 2, 2025 short article on this. It is mind blowing ) "Thinking About").
Thank you for your kind words. It was a struggle and it didn’t come easy. But it was simply what I was born to do.
We all have paths to forge and stories to tell.
You did right. Brava.
Yes, that's why we're here..to leave the world a little bit better .in the end. 😰
Yes…and teach our children well
Heredity
He is really, really stupid, though, which needs to be factored in. He has never succeeded in a single good thing, as far as I have been able to find out.
Agree. He’s been an utter failure at everything. Except he’s now the POTUS again, and - he’s presumably the most powerful person in the world - with a chip on his shoulder, with unfettered immunity, a belly filled with rage and revenge and no moral compass. And he is hellbent on destroying our country and even burning the entire planet down, to prove a point.
Men's wish he'd died at birth.
He lost it a long time ago. If he ever had it.
well wasn't much to start with……
What mind was left to lose? Trump was always allowed… aided and abetted….to march to the beat of his ego . The problem is the approval votes 🗳️ n last election from blind-sided voters who didn’t stop to question his messed up
Mind!
He lost it years and years ago. His upbringing by a father that taught him the false values of wealth deserves entitlement, that strength lays in never admitting error and self respect comes only at stepping on those one considers less than himself. 45 was molded to be the insane being he is, and his only route of escape was blocked by those who use his addiction to the need for attention (something his father NEVER gave him) will lead humanity to the extinction level event they were already headed toward, simply sooner than later.
ghua/ghya
My initial comment was rhetorical.
I’ve actually been following DJT’s career since the mid 1980’s when I was living/working in Manhattan around the corner from trump tower. His reputation as a liar, cheat, racist bigot, conman, bully, womanizer and sexual predator who assaulted women preceded him.
And since then I have done extensive research into both his professional and personal history, perhaps because I also grew up in an extremely dysfunctional family, far worse than his, which involved alcoholics, poverty, hunger, physical brutality, fear, chaos and shame. But in spite of all that, I chose to pull myself out of the hopelessness of all those traumatic years and excel, as I described above.
I also have a minor degree in psychology, focused on deviant behavior. So, even though I’m not a trained clinical psychologist like Mary Trump is, I’m well aware of Trump’s deviancies.
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
You are right!
I think the great Renaissance Itlian author Dante... has returned from the grave to add two new lowest rings of his "Inferno." One for all Dear Leader's sycophants who've aided the deliberate suffering of humans, & the lowest for IQ45 & Vlad.
Amen.
The most anticipated obit ever!
The Midterms are the driving force to start the removal of this dictatorship.THE PEOPLE MARCHING IN THE STREETS EVERY DAY……..will be THE START!
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
May he take his countless lemmings with him
Hopefully in a never ending nightmare for him
How do we pull ourselves back when so many have been corrupted by the disease of hate, cruelty, prejudice, and egregious wealth? Even when he is gone, the viral stench will remain.
They will crawl back under their rocks and the Democrats will undo much of the damage he’s done, but it will take a long time to repair our relationships with allies. I still can’t believe there are people who think he’s great.WTAF!
As long as the possibility exists that the Heritage magats could gain power again, means other countries will not trust us for a long time unless / until gop can reinvent themselves
We need to find a way to ban Heritage - and Charles Koch for that matter.
For starters I thought 501c3 s can’t have tax exempt status if they are political in nature. It was talked about last year and I can’t quite remember what the loophole is…think tank??? or educational??? Gulp.
I guess a tax attny could clarify.
Now is Charles one of the two Koch bros? I never bothered to mem their first names as I have no real use for storing conservative Donaldtrumpsupporters in mah bwain.
I looked up a project 2025 tracker but it came up as unsafe. I was going to check how much has been accomplished. 50%? 70%?? I heard they already have a project 2026-27 up and running. Putting the dems to shame.
Yes, Charles is one of the Koch brothers, the other one (now deceased, good riddance) being David.
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Who could ever trust America now ?
Also isn’t it ironic that the Fascist Leader is saying he is ‘cocked and ready’ to defend protesters in Iran whilst at home people are taking to the streets and being murdered on the school,run ?
The ironies are endless
The Democratic Party, cleaning up GOP messes since 1933
Yes, and Biden cleaned it up well after DJT was POTUS 45. DJT refers back as a Biden disaster term but far from it. He relies on MAGA to take that on
Not really...
Name me three times once the Democrats returned to power did they remind or revoked anything Trump did, or any program or order, get out of jail free cards, Supreme Court pics, or any law that was reminded, cancelled or removed from any previous Republican President after the Democratic president came to power...
You can't because it has never really happened except in the most egregious circumstances e.
Against my better judgment, I am going to take your questions seriously. Let’s focus on Biden’s reversals of signature Trump policies. Here’s the top ten, via Gemini 3 prompt:
“During his term, President Joe Biden prioritized dismantling many of the signature initiatives of the Trump administration, often using executive orders to do so immediately upon taking office.
Here are the top ten significant reversals of Trump-era policies under the Biden administration.
1. Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement
* Trump Policy: In 2017, President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, arguing it disadvantaged the U.S. economy. The withdrawal formally took effect in November 2020.
* Biden Reversal: On his first day in office (January 20, 2021), Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the accord, recommitting the U.S. to international goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Halting the Border Wall Construction
* Trump Policy: A central campaign promise, Trump declared a national emergency to divert billions in military and other federal funds to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
* Biden Reversal: Biden issued a proclamation ending the national emergency declaration and immediately paused all construction projects and funding diversion related to the border wall.
3. Ending the "Muslim Ban" (Travel Bans)
* Trump Policy: Early in his presidency, Trump issued executive orders (commonly referred to as the "Muslim Ban") that restricted travel from several Muslim-majority nations, as well as certain African countries, citing national security concerns.
* Biden Reversal: Biden revoked these proclamations on Day One, calling them discriminatory and stating they harmed U.S. alliances and families.
4. Revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline Permit
* Trump Policy: The Trump administration had issued a presidential permit to allow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project designed to carry oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, which had been blocked by the Obama administration.
* Biden Reversal: Biden revoked the cross-border permit for the pipeline, effectively killing the project. He cited climate change concerns and the need to transition to a clean energy economy.
5. Reversing the Transgender Military Ban
* Trump Policy: In 2017, Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military, reversing an Obama-era policy that allowed them to serve openly.
* Biden Reversal: Within his first week, Biden signed an executive order repealing the ban, allowing qualified transgender individuals to serve in the Armed Forces and prohibiting discharge based on gender identity.
6. Rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO)
* Trump Policy: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump moved to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO, accusing the organization of mismanagement and being too deferential to China.
* Biden Reversal: Biden halted the withdrawal process immediately and appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the head of the U.S. delegation to the WHO, restoring U.S. funding and participation.
7. Restoring Federal Workforce Protections (Schedule F)
* Trump Policy: Late in his term, Trump issued an executive order creating "Schedule F," a new employment category that would have stripped civil service protections from tens of thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire and replace with political appointees.
* Biden Reversal: Biden revoked the Schedule F order, restoring job protections and collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
8. Fortifying DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)
* Trump Policy: The Trump administration attempted to rescind the DACA program, which protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ("Dreamers") from deportation.
* Biden Reversal: Biden issued a memorandum directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to "preserve and fortify" DACA, signaling a return to the Obama-era stance of protecting Dreamers.
9. Restoring National Monuments (Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante)
* Trump Policy: President Trump significantly reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, opening the land up to potential mining and drilling.
* Biden Reversal: Biden issued proclamations restoring the monuments to their original boundaries, protecting millions of acres of land and cultural sites sacred to Native American tribes.
10. Census Count Inclusion
* Trump Policy: The Trump administration sought to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count used for apportioning congressional seats and Electoral College votes.
* Biden Reversal: Biden signed an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to count all residents, regardless of immigration status, ensuring that apportionment is based on the total population as has been traditional practice.”
Such a True & Real comment.. thanks!!
Many dems are no better than Trump. Several whom the libbies kneel for are keeping him in office. They have harassed those trying to impeach the orange fool and his minions.
Well, I don't kneel for anyone. I don't love all democrats and I certainly would never support the democrats voting with republicans against our citizen's and country's best interest. Never align with fascists. Ever. I don't care who you are. One example: I sure never hear of any democrat or progressive voters supporting Fetterman anymore.
I think his strokes changed him irreparably.
Dems in congress and/or the senate ? If you’re referencing individual(s) who are in the house or senate, what would one or more of those individuals motive(s) be to obstruct a fellow democrat or democrats from moving on Trump ?
People don't understand how articles of impeachment actually work which is that they don't when it's the minority party drawing up articles of impeachment when there are no members in the majority party to support the action. The speaker of the house in the majority party totally controls what comes to the floor for a vote, no way would Johnson allow that to happen. The only way he could be forced to allow a vote on impeachment would be a discharge petition but that again requires members of the majority party to sign the petition. Though enough repugnican reps were willing to sign the discharge petition to allow a vote on releasing the Epstein files there's no way dems would get any to sign a petition to allow a vote on articles of impeachment. Even were a miracle to occur and we got enough signatures on a discharge petition *and* got enough repugnicans to vote for impeachment the likelihood of the Senate repugnicans breaking partisan lines and voting to convict/remove Trump is nil! We already been there done that in his last term and it's 99.9% certain we'd have the same outcome this time. Turns out it's a waste of time filing articles of impeachment when the desired and deserved outcome of conviction and removal is DOA from the start.
There were 7 Democrats who voted with the Republicans to increase the budget for ICE. Can anyone explain that to me?
When he’s gone, we will have an opportunity to make this a better Union. It will take everyone pushing that wheel. We also need to call out haters of all kinds.
I am absolutely stunned by the level of hatred that has raised its ugly head, above whatever level it was in the U.S., since Trump came on the scene in 2015. Angry, bigoted and hatred filled people are emboldened now. I’d argue, because of Trump. I see his anger, unapologetic, ignorant and childish behavior has acted like a contagion. Infesting people that are vulnerable, ignorant, angry, or in a position to gain more power or control, like Trump himself….it’s simply mind boggling. Trump relishes in harming people he perceives as his enemies, whether they simply disagree, challenge or threaten his views. Absolute insecurity. And all of this disfunction has spilled over into every neighborhood, school and workplace in the country. It’s heartbreaking that over 70 million adults cast a ballot for him….TWICE !
I’ve lost friends and some family members will not speak to me. I’m not complaining. I just don’t understand it. Am I blind, or are they ?
It seems friends and family members have chosen division over their care for you/me/us!! So were they just faking concern or blood/friendship connecting affections all this time?!?!
I’m amazed of how much racism, anger and ignorance those closest to me are comfortable displaying, just because they can.
Yes! Someone who gets it. We must be united to restore our Republic and protect the Constitution from the den of fools trying to destroy the rule of law which now presides.
They are a septic wound.
The many haters you mention were always there, they were just given the leeway to exercise their hate in the open. I feel like they amount to at most 15 to 20%.
When the dust settles, they will all slither back under their rock for another 80 years or so, hopefully.
I hope it’s only 15-20%.
Unfortunately, they procreate.
This is the worst part of it. Tearing something down is infinitely more difficult than rebuilding it.
Don't you mean "rebuilding something is infinitely more difficult than tearing it down"?
I believe it’s the opposite.
Like the “Lego “Analogy”…….hours or days/weeks to construct a complex Lego model, can be demolished in 10 seconds.
What? I would say that the opposite is true.
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
If you ask a non-wealthy MAGA who attacks you on social media why they want billionaires to get a huge tax break, the silence is deafening.
Somewhere along the line they have forgotten that there are moral obligations in a civilized society for taxpayers: the safety, health and security of EVERYONE
Yes... but we already see JD pandering to the anti-semites... lying about cats & dogs, etc., all over again... trying to take The Cult.
The RW podcaster grifters will help, bc they're used to their income streams...
Where do they believe their pandering and enabling will take them ? What are they gaining other than $ and attention from people who live in the same silo.
Sadly the damage he’s already done is so vast, both internally and internationally, turning it round will take several generations. Decades. Perhaps a 100 years. America has proven itself untrustworthy, unreliable and avaricious. A smash and grab hooligan. Trump will end, but now the international community knows there’s a huge number of MAGA people there that could turn around and do it all again with another fascist leader at any point. It’s going to take a lifetime to educate and somehow lead the bad apples into a new way of thinking.
it was always there...the play is it will hopefully go back to the basements with nazi memorabilia, the confederate flags.
as pogo said, 'we have met the enemy and it is ourselves..'
Actual publicly televised hard core old school consequences.
Some is irreplaceable and irretrievable
We have to become the change we want to see. Never give up on hope. I choose hope. ✨
His legacy will be that he did SFA for the country while enriching himself, his family and friends at the expense of the American people. F🖕🏻CK Off Downs Syndrome Donnie‼️
What are you doing?
TIM ALLEN- ON TRUMP: Whatever your feelings on Trump, these are some interesting points that Tim Allen makes. Put your hatred aside, and think about these observations. Tim Allen is credited with writing this...
Tim Allen wrote: Here are some interesting points to think about prior to 2020, especially to my friends on the fence, like moderate Democrats, Libertarians and Independents, and the Never Trump Republicans, and those thinking of "walking away" from the Democrat Party:
*Women are upset at Trump’s naughty words- they also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.
*Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.
*No Border Walls. No Voter ID laws. Did you figure it out yet? But wait...there's more....
*Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year. Her Mom flies around the country speaking about white priviledge. And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.
*President Trump’s wall cost less than the Obamacare website. Let that sink in, America!
*We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion, nationally. We are fighting evil.
*They sent more troops and armament to arrest Roger Stone, than they did to defend Benghazi.
*60 years ago, Venezuela was 4th on the world economic freedom index. Today, they are 179th, and their citizens are dying of starvation. In only 10 years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.
*Russia donated $0.00 to the Trump campaign. Russia donated $145,600,000 to the Clinton Foundation. But Trump was the one investigated!
*Nancy Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union. President Trump invited victims of illegal aliens to the State of the Union. Let that sink in!
*A socialist is basically a communist who doesn't have the power to take everything away from their citizens at gunpoint...Yet!
*How do you walk 3,000 miles across Mexico without food or support, and show up at our border 100 pounds overweight and with a cell phone?
*Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wants to ban cars, ban planes, give out universal income, and thinks socialism works. She calls Donald Trump crazy.
*Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to Paula Jones to get her to go away. I don't remember the FBI raiding his lawyer's office.
*I wake up every day and I am grateful that Hillary Clinton is not the President of the United States of America. The same media that told me Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning, now tells me that Trump’s approval ratings are low.
*"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."- Margaret Thatcher
*Maxine Waters opposes Voter ID laws; She thinks that they are racist. You need to have a photo ID to attend her town hall meetings.
*President Trump said "They're not after me. They're after YOU. I'm just in their way."
*Now go Back and read this Again like your Future Depends upon it, Because it Does!
dude, go back under your rock!
I just LOVE misinformation laid out in an easy-to-read bullet list! Knowing who to block on Substack is paramount to sanity!
Quit spreading disinformation. Diversify your news sources and share links to verify what you post.
You Liberal's wrote the book on disinformation, and we don't have to share shit with you! It's OUR turn to make the decisions for this country, and one's that will be for the benefit of ALL Americans! Y'all will pay for the 10 years you put this country through…starting in January 2026…many grand jury indictments…going all the way up to Obama, and I hope they cook his sorry ass!
Obama has Presidential Immunity for official acts while in office, yet at a bare minimum, he can be named as an unindicted co-conspirator, yet when you're dealing with CONSPIRACY charges, there are no statutes of limitations. The rest of his cronies and Deep State actor's WILL see jail time though, and draining the Swamp is one of Trump’s mandates…and Trump follows through on all his promises.
Oh, you silly, sad little man. You really are eaten up with a heaping full of dumba@$. Boo, be gone! 😆
Lucy, you're gonna see!
Ok. You're definitely an idiot. And so is Tim Allen who is spewing nonsense. There is nothing here to back up “opinions”. Just stop.
Stfu! 🖕
When the downfall of your criminal uncle happens, Mary, I hope his dementia has not progressed so far that he doesn’t know it is happening. I want him to experience it. I want him to see the explosion of joy throughout the land when he is no longer in power.
Abd see your face in deep laughter.
He has stolen one or more of my last remaining years from me by his actions and i only pray i live long enough to see him and everyone of his sycophants destroyed
The SUPERMAJORITY PLAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP
It will take 292 house and 67 senate democrats to obtain a supermajority vote. The supermajority vote will negate the need for Trump to sign a bill into law. THIS IS THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING. The house and senate can pass a law to release the classified files implicating Trump and his billionaire pedophile network. They can pass a law to investigate the coverup of those files within the Trump administration.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE NOVEMBER 6th MIDTERM ELECTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORK
Make sure you share this with everyone you know without social media. People without social media are unaware how corrupt and detrimental Trump’s administration really is for our country. The media outlets do not post anything negative about Trump.
WE HAVE TO STOP TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WORKING CLASS TO SURVIVE
Let's not forget the billionaires here & worldwide. They have been planning this for a decades. They are evil incarnate.
I agree and from where I sit outside the US we can’t believe what we are seeing, but we are all in our reality bubbles now and the maga ones, particularly those created by Fox News, are captured in alternate facts aka lies, that means many won’t come back to a real fact based perspective. The dems assumed incorrectly that trump’s despicable nature would be enough to win, it wasn’t and TBH they need to realise that if a majority of Americans want the border under control then they need to recognise that. At some level trump is the change agent no one wants, hopefully the US will swing back from the polarised state it is in, I feel the next generations are more progressive and know the American dream is now less attainable than ever, unless you are born into inherited wealth, but it feels there is a police state/ Gestapo, whatever you want to call ICE so well funded now that it may build enough momentum to suppress the people for a very long time…. as Putin has done.
Thought the world 🌎
The psychology of accountability is fascinating. Studies show narcissistic personalities genuinely cannot process failure, their brain's selfprotection mechanisms literally rewrite memories. The pain isn't just for those around them, it's existential.
Excellent writing. My favorite part is the way you define why he’s never going to admit his mistakes. I believe in this. It’s my observation from his past, your books, etc… he would choose to fall before admitting he was stumbling. In the end, I hope to see justice for his victims and truth prevail in our government. My eyes are on that prize. Long live the survivors in happiness and health!
Roy was an evil genius who used his talents to hurt innocent people. May his immortal soul rot in hell. Thank you for your response because I know that you are educated on this subject.
Roy Cohn’s advice to Donald in any defensive situation: attack, attack, attack. Claim victory, especially in defeat.
Amen, Mary! Trump has been coddled and protected his whole life, and it's time for the rug to be pulled from under his feet!
..Mary.. in this piece you have pulled all the threads together.. it’s brief, it’s beautiful, it’s brilliant.!. Thank you..!🤌❤️💪
Agree. Absolutely brilliant.
So true and so astutely written, Mary. We all continue to be gobsmacked at how this has happened. I never would have imagined that the US harbored so many rudderless, soulless politicians. I'm sure they all sleep well at night, too, while we can't.
I’m not gobsmacked. This is exactly what has been happening for 10.5 years. He’s an idiot. A bumbling, incompetent idiot, who has risen because of his father — all laid out perfectly in Mary’s first book. As soon as they stop healthcare, trans issues, and vaccines, they move on to more nefarious policies and practices. He WILL wag the dog in Venezuela. People will continue to die in immigration camps because they are too inept to articulate a reasonable policy and frankly, they enjoy making people suffer. I’m real tired of fake Christians making people suffer. And the Epstein files, omg. Of course he was involved with young girls. There are pictures. There are depositions, and we’ve seen film of him with his daughter. I left gobsmacked behind after watching him mock a disabled person. Think about Gary Hart and Howard Dean and what ended their political ambitions. Our country is screwed.
It's been happening longer than that - the last 25yrs at least, but I would say all the way back to Reagan, when the idea of 'trickle-down economics' was created to muffle and misdirect any anger against the super rich, when we began to deregulate business and industry so they could cut corners and maximize profits at the expense of their workers, when it became normal to openly demonize people on govt benefits of any kind, and the disastrous, failed 'War on Drugs' went into high gear, etc. Every successive president only deepened the crises we were facing as a nation, on one front or another, despite a few gains. To be sure the last 10.5yrs accelerated it, but for example, the first incarnation of MAGA was the Tea Party. And the Christo-fascist Religious Right goes back to 1979 & the so-called Moral Majority, who invented the extreme anti-abortion movement out of wholecloth in order to split off, galvanize and mold all evangelical Christians into a lockstep Conservative voting base. One that could, by welding them to the GOP, carry them into a future where religion was law and Christo-fascists the rule. That, more than anything, has been HF's mission - to eventually realize a Christian form of sharia law, ie. religious law that applies to all citizens whether they believe or not. The corporate technocrats have found them very useful, as a front for the oligarchy which is consolidating true power behind the scenes. The dark money governs all, which is fine with them since the Christo-fascists worship money and power more than any god.
Yes, it’s been happening since Reagan, I stated I was past gobsmacked 10.5 years ago. Reagan was awful in so many ways.
It’s probably always been with this country. I go back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy, which points back to the Civil Rights era, and then back to Reconstruction and the Civil War. Which then reminds us of States’ Rights and the Electoral College because of the founding of the country with slavery.
Bingo - all of it ultimately goes back to race, and the racists who wanted to keep slavery so much, they fought a war and invented a new religion (or at least the biggest schism since the Reformation), Evangelical Christians, and they've been fighting ever since to be allowed to legally discriminate and make racist laws again, to undo the CRA entirely so black people can be segregated again, and worse.
It's all ultimately about racist whites wanting to hold onto their prejudices and have that be the norm instead of frowned upon, and poor/working class white people buying into the lies about how it's a zero sum game, that minorities are being given an advantage by DEI (somehow) and taking their jobs, so on and so forth. They want back the times when a mediocre white man would be chosen before any black or brown person, no matter how skilled.
That's why Trump cannot STAND that Obama got a Nobel and he couldn't, nevermind that he's not actually smart or capable enough to do something that merits one; to him a black man cannot out-achieve him on the face of it. He can't accept or even really process it - the world should not be allowed to work that way, point blank.
Combine the real-time cognitive decline that is on display almost every single day with the certainty that he will stop at absolutely nothing to save his own ass, and you have one of the - if not THE - most dangerous people on the planet.
Amen to the fake Christians. How could a real Christian or person of faith dare support such horror.
When the crowd cheered Trump’s mocking dismissal of John McCain’s war heroism — “He was a war hero because he was captured” — is the moment the GOP lost its soul. I still can’t believe Lindsey Graham gave Trump the time of day after that. But Graham is emblematic of the craven pursuit of power and access which enables Trump and Trumpism.
Graham is a wuss. I'm guessing he's in the Epstein closet. He was too joyous when he thought the E files would not be released. He was crying into his hands, like a baby.
And the people that make excuses for him….the enabling people are in the U.S. Senate, congress and his entire cabinet. He’s somehow managed to put many of the checks, in the right places on the checker board.
I agree. They have been organizing this for years, and blackmail may be involved.
The image of that will stay with me, too. I truly thought that would end his political career.
I am continually surprised that he hasn't been dragged out and beaten. It's the least that he deserves.
They have enough LOOT to sleep just fine. That is the only reason most of them got into politics in the first place. That and the great benefits.
The Corporate Piggy 🐷 Boy.
Ego in Chief living the “phallacy” sic
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This is one of the most astute things I've ever read about Trump.
Check out her book too.
The saving grace here is that Trump is incapable of learning from his mistakes. Were he capable of doing do, he could very easily have won in 2020. Were he capable of doing so, he would have, as several wise observers have suggested, just allowed the Biden economic recovery to continue while DJT just played golf and coated his office wall with golden bling.
But he can’t, and in that fact lies his greatest gift to us. As a would-be tinpot dictator, he’s an utter failure, but he has showed us just enough of what a far more competent autocrat might have done to alert more and more of us, including his own supporters, to the risk his agenda poses for this nation.
The Trump presidency has done what no normal presidency could have, awakened us to the fragility of our Republic after years or widespread complacency, too steeped in the idea that our government was far more secure than it is.
He is nothing more than a stooge for the evil people propping him up. The Heritage Foundation, Peter Thiel, tech bros, J.D. Vance, profit-mongers, TurningPoint USA, etc. are NOT going away. Hatred of trump is a distraction that we're all paying dearly for, while the cogs churn behind his scenes.
That’s a bit too simplistic. He is doing as much or more for them than they are doing for him. Had Hillary won in 2016 (which, at least by the pppular vote, she did), we wouldn’t be anywhere near here. Had Joe Biden not made the disastrous decision to run for a second term, the Democrats might have found someone (not necessarily Ms Harris0 able to beat Trump in 2024, we wouldn’t be here.
There are many strings in play in this orchestral extravaganza,
No, they had already hacked and stole the election with Elon Musks help.
Now who's being simplistic? Do you not understand that those things don't even matter? They had no bearing on the outcome of the election - do you not realize Musk basically admitted to hacking the voting machines infrastructure to actually, literally steal the election this time? That exit polling and other measures show Harris actually did win? No matter who the candidate, they wouldn't have been *allowed* to just win, because the techbros had decided that Trump made an excellent figurehead AND distraction, able to keep the outrage cycle going while they dismantle what's left of democracy and dig their dirty little AI surveillance tendrils deep into the 'government' that's left.
It will already take decades to undo what's been done to capture and distort our systems of power, law and justice, unless we just replace the government entirely, and even then, there will be things we don't even know about which will remain in the shadow government oligarchy that has been established, still trying to influence and direct society in the way they think it should go - but from the shadows. Because they know, they've outright _admitted_ that the people, the voting public would never vote for the things on their agenda. Their goal is to force social changes by completely bypassing real, fair elections and voting, because they're not electable and their agenda is widely unpopular and they know it. Same goes for the Christo-fascists.
They already know they can never, will never win a free and fair election, but they are determined to put their vision in place in spite of that, by hook or by crook, and they've already done it once. And NOT enough people have woken up to, or see what's really going on behind the scenes, behind and beyond Trump - everyone in the *unredacted* Epstein files, all the billionaires, techbros, industry magnates and corporate conglomerate titans, all the rabid fascists who are wanting to put religion and/or Nazi ideology, often both, up as the law of the land because they're all either racist as fuck or simply don't care what happens to 'those people' - immigrants, minorities, LGBTQs, the disabled - at the bottom of their preferred order of society.
Left wing conspirators and their theories are no more useful than those on the right.
Had there been any indication at all that the 2024 election had been ‘stolen’ by the right, the Democratic Party would have lanched an all-out legal battle almost from Day One (as the right did after 2020, even without any indication of voter fraud).
You need to accept the reality and work to alter it in time for 2026. Claims that Harris won in 2024 are at best useless and at worst just more fodder for the right wing nuts.
- the Dems would have launched an all-out legal battle: WRONG. They passively accepted the result *in spite of* all the evidence that it was tampered with, because Dem party leadership is largely spineless and passive. They have not been, and not been capable of, going on the offensive in a long time, not in any effective way.
It’s not a conspiracy theory if there is real evidence. It's reality, and I'm sorry you're so committed to your naiveté. Most of us know better, and we also know that simply 'claiming' or making a statement that Harris won or trying to fight it, isn't the point at all - it's that we cannot *trust* our electors, voting machines or any digital counts in elections anymore, none of our current electoral process, so passively waiting around for the next elections to maybe shift the balance is pointless. We should still vote while we can, but we CANNOT rely on it to resolve this crisis of democracy.
Actively protesting and resisting, both online and off, making sure to stand up or speak up and be counted, encouraging others to do the same, standing up for our neighbours against ICE thugs who have no real legal authority, refusing to play ball by joining the boycott of the worst parts of the corporate capitalist hellscape (Amazon, Target, Disney, Walmart, etc) and so on, are far more effective ways to show how many of us there are who will resist and oppose this fascist regime until our last breath.
Refusing to see all the ways that Republicans have allowed techbro billionaires and super-rich oligarchs to manipulate and compromise our democratic process, and how serious the problem has become, is merely willful blindness that does little but passively *support* the regime, by giving it a legitimacy it has NEVER deserved.
It's not about left vs. right, not really - it's about the common man vs. the oligarchs & super rich & megacorps trying to use and suppress us ALL, to usurp all levers of power in our society, and take complete authoritarian control of the govt, such as is left of it - and inasmuch as they don't control most of it indirectly through dark money already. You are focused on the distraction, not the enemy. This is a vertical war.
"the Dems would have launched an all-out legal battle: WRONG. They passively accepted the result *in spite of* all the evidence that it was tampered with, because Dem party leadership is largely spineless and passive. “
Sorry, but that simply delusional.
I don't know what made you believe that I needed further explanation, but you can stop now.
He works for Putin.
History from your viewpoint really doesn't matter. I'm looking at the future of the players in this regime, and how they'll affect our fight to get this country back on track.
I’m not expressing an historical point of view, simply stating the fact that Trump’s actions have created a growing backlash and a realization of what could happen if he is not stopped, a realization of our fragility and the apparent inability of the Constitution as it now exists to reign him in. Without him, this realization wouldn’t have happened.
The future is unknown. There is no real historical guide here because Trump’s actions are almost entirely unprecedented in American presidential history. Nor have we ever had some of the things that have so enabled his agenda - notably the internet.
Have it your way. "Simplistic" works for most people, without all the hand-wringing about Clinton and Biden. Fact is, the actors behind trump have been writing their Project 2025 prequels since 1980, while too many liberal-minded voters waited for democracy to lend itself to their individual wishes. We're far too privileged in this country, if we couldn't see this (the trump regime) coming.
Actually Project 2025 ‘prequels’ have been in progress since at least the 1880’s (See Heather Cox Richardson’s To Set Men Free, her story of the transformation of the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Trump), and many have seen something like Trump coming in the personages of the Robber Barons, the obsessive right wing opposition to FDR’s New Deal, Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, et al. Indeed, such people have peopled our history, going back to almost to our founding. There has always been the tension between those who believed in democracy, however flawed, and those who did not.
Indeed, many of the Founders recognized the threat someone like Trump would pose. But they knew as well that to put in place enough hard guardrails to prevent a Trump would doom the Republic. As they themselves did with Washington, they knew it would ultimately rest on us to continue to choose at least rationally if not always wisely.
What wasn’t at all clear was the power of the internet, which has changed everything. Donald Trump won in 2016 in large measure because he used the internet to go straight to the people, over the heads of the Republican establishment, which recognized much of the threat he posed, said so, and then, when they saw that he’d outmaneuvered, like many in Germany in the 1930’s mistakenly figured they could use him to further their own agendas.
Other factors - among them globalization which in many ways did the opposite of what its defenders assumed it would - level the playing field across the globe.
Indeed, Trump has always been in the wings - and this time we let him take center stage.
"How long, O LORD?" Please let it be soon.
Amen!🙏
I believe nothing good waits for him where he’s going! Prepare your big orange blowhole, there’s no lube in Hell!
Too funny 🤣
All aboard the Trumptanic. Final call before it reaches its demise
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While I don’t typically wish ill on others, he and his regime are a notable exception. They have caused incalculable harm, and are capable of no remorse.
He and his regime have caused me to use language that I didn't use the first 75 years of my life. Now I am an almost raging, angry old woman.
I think of you often, Mary, and what you must be going through being related to this maniac who is burning everything within and without his path on a worldwide scale. My husband's brother, a sociopathic narcissist, murdered his own wife and spent 32+ years in prison. Never has shown remorse. Was "community leader/organizer-fun runs and such, took over the father's optometry business, Boy Scout Leader, paints Walt Disney characters and Kinkaid type paintings, blonde and good looking to his disadvantage. Looked a bit like a young Kirk Douglas when he himself was younger. It's not easy having a family member like this. I absolutely hate him and what he did to my husband's emotional state and to his family's. I read most things you write and speak. I truly feel for you. You have to take extra good care of yourself. You must survive. WE must survive. I see in this article you think we can prevent falling off the slope with him and his sycophants, if I read that correctly. What keeps you hopeful?
As always, a breath of sanity.