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!
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.
No, and yet we have no science, healthcare, free speech, laws, flag officers, women and trans people, education, clean air and water, or the will to live.
It's a lot harder not to despair when you live in a deep red state and you see or even feel the worst effects of the regime every day. When you actually DON'T have most of those things. I'm disabled and dependent on several programs which recently got major cuts or added requirements, among other things - with my health I only have the energy to survive, much as I would like to support the resistance in various ways.
I can't, and I'm terrified of what will happen to me when support/benefit programs get axed entirely, or cut to the point of uselessness, or the next round of crazy (institutionalization??) rolls out. I can see where it's all going, and it probably means I die before the resistance succeeds. That doesn't mean I don't support it, whatever small way I can, but asking people in desperate situations, where the line between life and death keeps getting thinner, to not feel desperate and despairing really sounds like privilege.
Where you sit, maybe you still have those things, but many, many others are living hand to mouth, on a razor thin edge with no energy or attention to spare from just trying to make sure themselves and their children survive. You might as well be talking about pie in the sky for all the reality it has to us.
I get your point, I really do, but so many of us are not lucky enough to be able to see that perspective, nor able to simply look past the stark cruelty of our own daily realities. Our fight is taken up with merely staying alive, and we don't have any extra. Try to have some understanding of how hard merely that is for those of us already in the trenches, so to speak. They're coming for us _now_ and there's no time left.
JD Vance is a proxy for Peter Thiel. I believe that Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are actually "running" the country, with people like Kristi Noem and Kash Patel running fast and loose with their bureaus and the treasury.
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.
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!
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.
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.
May his continuous sliding end in an abyss with no return.
You are right!
𝙸 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚔..."𝐛𝐮𝐭" 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐....
𝚃 𝚁 𝙰 𝙲 𝙺 𝙳 𝙾 𝙺 . 𝙲 𝙾 𝙼
It seems like we’re watching deranged Donny have a nervous breakdown in real time.
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!
They are a septic wound.
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.
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.
He is terrifying on his own. I am worried about the lasting effects of his Cabinet picks' actions
They need to all be disappeared!
Trump is the catalyst put in place by Thiel, Voight and Miller. HE is a puppet. It's the men behind the curtain, that need to be eradicated.
I would also add he is useful a idiot who Putin helped put in place. Putin's puppet as Hillary described him
No, and yet we have no science, healthcare, free speech, laws, flag officers, women and trans people, education, clean air and water, or the will to live.
It's a lot harder not to despair when you live in a deep red state and you see or even feel the worst effects of the regime every day. When you actually DON'T have most of those things. I'm disabled and dependent on several programs which recently got major cuts or added requirements, among other things - with my health I only have the energy to survive, much as I would like to support the resistance in various ways.
I can't, and I'm terrified of what will happen to me when support/benefit programs get axed entirely, or cut to the point of uselessness, or the next round of crazy (institutionalization??) rolls out. I can see where it's all going, and it probably means I die before the resistance succeeds. That doesn't mean I don't support it, whatever small way I can, but asking people in desperate situations, where the line between life and death keeps getting thinner, to not feel desperate and despairing really sounds like privilege.
Where you sit, maybe you still have those things, but many, many others are living hand to mouth, on a razor thin edge with no energy or attention to spare from just trying to make sure themselves and their children survive. You might as well be talking about pie in the sky for all the reality it has to us.
I get your point, I really do, but so many of us are not lucky enough to be able to see that perspective, nor able to simply look past the stark cruelty of our own daily realities. Our fight is taken up with merely staying alive, and we don't have any extra. Try to have some understanding of how hard merely that is for those of us already in the trenches, so to speak. They're coming for us _now_ and there's no time left.
He might not be the main player but he is the one with the most power. The others spend most of their time whacking his doodle and kissing his arse.
JD Vance is a proxy for Peter Thiel. I believe that Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are actually "running" the country, with people like Kristi Noem and Kash Patel running fast and loose with their bureaus and the treasury.
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Heaven forbid! That would mean going from evil to horrible evil!
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.
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.
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!
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..!🤌❤️💪
As always, a breath of sanity.
"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 🤣
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.
I also am haunted by that memory of him mocking a disabled person. His cruelty is still shocking.
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.
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.
All aboard the Trumptanic. Final call before it reaches its demise
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Thank you for calling out the Donald on his egregious behavior. He is a dangerous man.
Lunacy is ALWAYS dangerous!
Yay!! Thank you, Mary—me too!
Me too Mary!