Thank you for this spot on analysis, Mary. On my own Substack, I have written that your lying, demented uncle is the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime. Every day, he provides a new reason to think that. I used to be ashamed of calling him POTUS, until I redefined POTUS to mean “Piece Of Totally Untruthful Shit”.
I have to agree that Trump *is* the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime too (I was b. 1951), but as I keep saying, he didn't come out of nowhere. The country has been on the road to Trump for my entire adult life, starting with the backlash to the civil rights and women's movements, the Nixon administration (with a tip of the hat to Spiro Agnew), the Reagan administration, the end of the Fairness Doctrine, the corporate consolidation of "news" media, the end of Glass-Steagall, the Patriot Act, the Bush-Cheney administration, the Citizens United decision . . . And the right-wingers started incubating the seeds of Project 2025 during the New Deal (if not earlier).
You mentioned Glass-Steagal being ended. That happened when Clinton was sent a bipartisan bill called the banking modernization act. He signed it into law. What it did was give the Bankster the ability to steal from the American people. There were so many crimes associated with that that went unpunished. So many people in the financial industry were in on it and that was when they really started moving wealth from the bottom to the top. Two decent Americans, senators John McCain and Elizabeth Warren got legislation passed to restore something similar to Glass/Steagall which stopped the plundering by the banks. A lot of bankers and financial people should’ve been brought to justice. They should’ve been hung publicly but that didn’t happen.
When I think about the Nixon era I think to myself that since Nixon we’ve had some horrible presidents both Democrat and Republican. We thought Nixon was the devil. People around Nixon went to prison and rightfully so. Nobody in the Trump mob will be going to prison. Justice will not be done at least not by the courts but if somebody were to take the lawn to their own hands and kill a bunch of them and if I run that person’s jury I would vote up guilty by reason of patriotism.
Hound, I am with you until you got to the killing of "a bunch of them." Such killing creates martyrs and provides the base on which to build the next collection of stupids with their own "project 2025."
I don’t think if some of the real scumbags in the world were to be taken out it wouldn’t create too many martyrs. If the Epstein gang were sentenced to death and executed I don’t think too many people would feel bad about it. If former Prince Andrew were executed I think the people of the United Kingdom would jump for joy.
Hound, I think it would definitely depend on who died. I think most people would be OK if the culprits of the disgusting abuse and trafficking and violence against the people were to be imprisoned for life with no chance of parole or pardon.
My understanding of banking and finance is sketchy -- it's like a language that I've tried to study but never become fluent in -- but I believe that the gutting of Glass-Steagall led directly to the banking collapse and recession of the late 2000s. And indirectly to rise of "dark money" and the Tea Party and the Citizens United decision: the white right, both Big Money and Teeny-Tiny Money freaked out at the election of Barack Obama, who they thought was not only Black but (unlike Clinton) outside their control.
I have little faith in justice being done either. It sure wasn't done after the financial collapse of the late 2000s, but I'm thinking especially of the end of Reconstruction and how the white South was allowed, by the white North, to rise again. That's an evil genie that still wreaking havoc on what I used to call our aspiring democracy, but now I wonder if we're really aspiring anymore.
Susanna, you are so right about those events. I keep wondering why so many mostly white men hate America so much. I can't help but wonder what they have as their end goal, slavery for everyone but themselves, so only they gain wealth and power? It truly is appalling, but somehow, few ever call out the hypocrisy of claiming patriotism while they are working to destroy the thing their patriotism is supposed to support. It really is disgusting! I do wish we had enough courageous people in power, in Congress, on the courts who could say "stop" and do what is required to stop the right-wing hatred of everyone who is not them, and they hate most of them too. Then hold them accountable for the damage, the deaths, the disillusion they are responsible for, and that is a lot!
They do not hate America! They love the America of today where the rich keep getting richer and the rich never face consequences for their actions. They love not caring about anyone but themselves! That is the America the wealthy and powerful live in and they don’t care about the rest of us!
Judy, alas, that is the world of Trump and his toddler pool, including Republicans in Congress and a few Democrats too. There are more of us than them, so we are going to have to figure out ways to defeat them enmasse if possible. They will never give up what they have stolen and believe they deserve!
But they *love* America -- their America. Their America is the America of the founders, where white men were in charge. They probably don't realize that many of them wouldn't have been eligible to vote, but white male solidarity runs very, very deep. They fought for the Confederacy, though it didn't have their interests in mind. They were all in with Jim Crow because it gave them other men to look down on.
I came of political age in the late 1960s. I'm at best ambivalent about "America." I don't stand for or say the Pledge of Allegiance. I don't stand for or sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." (I'm OK with "America the Beautiful" and "This Land Is Your Land.") About 15 years ago I adopted a Canadian friend's habit of referring to residents of the U.S. as "USians," not as "Americans." Why should residents of the country south of Canada and north of Mexico appropriate for their exclusive use a name that should apply to pretty much everyone in the Western Hemisphere?
Exactly. Uninformed MAGA cult and greedy GOP. Makes the case for required civics & history classes or maybe a valid college degree. Trump has degrees but clearly juiced his way through it.
I'd date it at Lincoln's assassination. Otherwise you miss the rise of the KKK, the implementation of legalized segregation to replace slavery, and the actual birth of the right wing movement that has grown into the sad lot that runs the country today. Imagine if Lincoln had been left alive to finish the job, instead of being replaced by a Southern sympathizing compromiser who could just as easily have fought on the Confederate side.
He has master manipulated most of the World with his marketing strategy scheme and catchy corny acronyms! People have fallen for his false intentions and absurd promises. It appears he can do no wrong and they will follow him into a burning pit, for him to be the only survivor!. This was always the plan.
Its plain as day, his interest is to gain profit. His agenda does not seem to better America, in fact quite the opposite! He is the problem and creating so much chaos amongst each other! Humanity is slipping further away! He is and has always been that “salesman” knocking on the door, with a money making gimmick.
I also believe that Project 2025 was really supposed to have been Project 2021. They are 4 years behind schedule, so of course they've achieved the most in 2 months and 3 days!
The only people he has ever been able to manipulate are those with an IQ even lower than him. Other world leaders know that they only need stroke his huge ego and they can usually manipulate him to get what they want. Especially China. What he is doing to our military with his right wing christian nationalists is just disgusting and he should be removed from the White House asap along with the whole regime! "Annoited by Jesus to ignite Armageddon"! Why are Hogsbreath and his lackey's being allowed to feed such BS to our troops?
The only time he cares about Americans is when he can con them into doing something for him or sending him their hard earned money. Then, he does not see them as people only as suckers.
Kelly, and the truth is that they are suckers. They would rather believe a serial liar and cheat who proves over and over his contempt for them than the truth of how they are being used and abused. Truly depressing!
There are things worse than Donald Trump. The worst thing is is that our government failed so catastrophically that we have allowed a convicted felon, a pedophile, a womanizer, an insurrectionist, a traitor, a thief, a rapist to become leader of the free world. That’s way more worse than Donald Trump. Donald Trump could drop dead and a problem would not go away. If somebody shoots him that would be bad because it would make him a martyr.
We have a government that was aware for more than two decades about Epstein and his pedophile rape club and our government turned a blind eye to it. Why? Because most of those child raping pedophiles were some of the most powerful people in the world who were raping children. That’s not the only thing they did and probably continue to do. Their tentacles reached all around the globe. They were part of moving wealth from the bottom to the top.
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were buddies along with Epstein. Bill Clinton was probably raping kids too but he came out and said that he has no knowledge that Donald Trump did anything wrong. He’s lying. Bill Clinton’s a liar and he’s a sex pervert. That lied just got Clinton off the hook. The other thing about the Clintons that most people don’t know is that they are worth about $250 million and they accumulated that wealth while he was president and after his president presidency and it was sleazy wealth and the same is true for Obama. He is worth 70 million and that wealth is growing every day. He doesn’t need that much money. Bill Clinton knew what was going on on pedophile Island and he probably participated in it. Nobody who went to pedophile Island was going there too swim and fish. They were going there to rape and torture kids and reach depths of depravity foreign two what humans can conceive or do. If I were the king in the world I would round up every one of them throw them in a huge pit and douse them in gasoline and toss it a match. Vengeance is probably healing. It’s justice. Humans want to see justice done because there’s something in us that we were born with that wants justice. We want to see the wicked punished appropriately. The appropriate punishment for these corporate criminal billionaires would be to keep them alive for 200 years and torture them every day. Anything else wouldn’t be enough because we can’t hate them enough.
True - But if he were to pass next week, we are still left with those who would elect to put into the White House such as he. This is the stain we will be left with.
The MAGAT is a whole other animal and they have existed since the beginning the evolution of the Homosapien. They are not human because they have no humanity or not enough to be called human so we’re going to have to deal with them psychologically and perhaps scare them off like it would a rats in the chicken coop or wolves among the sheep. If we get a lawful Democrat majority, they should punish the red states by withdrawing federal funds because it is the red state that are the parasite states and it is the blue states that are the donor states. We give and those idiots take that needs to stop. No mercy for MAGATS.
Yes, we have always had such as them, but not in the sheer numbers needed to put him in the White House. I am n a quandary as to what I am to think of those who voted for him.
You are correct Hound. This is on us. We must have accountability this time. Corruption, rape, human trafficking, theft, grift, war crimes, kidnapping, lawless govt agents, all in plain sight. Consequences now or we are doomed to repeat this. The Epstein Class must be sent to hell where they belong.
There are two types of people in the world there are humans and there are the rest of them. The human will suffer and fight and die for what is right even though they know they’re only passing through. Those are the lyrics from the song by Leonard Cohen but they are true.
The subhuman exists to satisfy their egos, their lust, their greed and their depravity. You can identify one of these animals by the trappings Of wealth such as I’ve seen expensive cars, Rolex watches, The mansions they live in And their vulgar attitudes. Obscene wealth puts them above the law and makes a person who is already born to be an asshole and even bigger asshole. The only thing that motivates the billionaire or corporate rat is fear. Given the choice of living a life where they will be safe from the people who hate them or them keeping their ill-gotten wealth It would be interesting to see what they would do are they willing to risk their lives to satisfy their greed Or will they give up their obscene wealth To be safe from the angry peasant class? Maybe that should be put to the test?
Maybe if Trump or one of his children had been brave enough to join a branch of our Military, maybe then he’d recognize & realize that War isn’t a game.
I believe his youngest son should have to join a branch of our Military. Since Trump nonchalantly dismisses the deaths of the Service Member’s so far, saying “there will be more”, then his youngest son whose Mother is not American Born, should go into Service!
Trump has NO IDEA what it’s like to be willing to lay down your life for the Country you love! Probably doesn’t even love America!
At least not enough to go to Vietnam, like so many others DID! Bone Spurs Dump fought going 5 times! What a POS!
His Grandfather did the same thing- dodged mandatory military service in Germany. Citizenship was denied, and banned from returning were the repercussions.
He also owned brothels as business ventures. One can only imagine the ages of those female workers during that period.
That has to be the time when feelings of disgust, disregard and discrimination towards females was formed. The females that made him money. That thinking process leads to generational learned behavior and inherited tendencies. This is probably why someone's name has the most mentions in the E files. *my POV and research*
So learned... a long trail of bloody women there, like you can almost see it, surely many women can feel it. If we have to suffer this s%&!, how can we feint the next time, get him to be a good boy, take his swing and free mosco? Lashing as$&^le.
I agree with you absolutely! He also has an 18 year old granddaughter that could enlist. It's good enough for the princes of England. Time to contribute something to America instead of taking.
Donald’s model is always to create chaos and profit from it. He launched this war in violation of the constitution to do one thing, create chaos so he can either postpone or cancel the midterm election because he knows he has no chance of winning. He’s a desperate little man who may have just started World War III.
Given the fact, Donald is such a deep sociopath, starting World War III to avoid accountability for his crimes against children that the Epstein files clearly show he clearly committed, is just normal for people like him. This is why his own niece, called him the most dangerous man on earth. But he couldn’t have done it without the most spineless soulless group of people in America, the GOP.
George Will recorded a great piece not too long ago in which he talked about this and how all authoritarian dictators before they die plaster the name all over everything as though it’s a way of leaving a legacy. That’s exactly what Trump is doing. The Kennedy Center, Penn Station, the Washington Tunnel, the Washington monument. This is not your normal demented madness that we’ve become accustomed to seeing out of this malignant narcissist. He even mentioned recently that he’s probably not going to heaven. The back of his hands are turning black, which is a clear sign of congestive heart failure. Most doctors have given him less than six months. He may actually view starring World War III as a way of establishing his legacy, as insane as that is.
On this topic, I fall back on Mark Twain, who said, “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with great excitement quote.
I believe that George Will thing was an AI generated video. The one I saw had a disclaimer in small print on the picture.Fooled several friends, but not my brother, who was a GW fan back in the day.
Here's something to brighten your day. BTW, Mary, I read your first book by accident and it got be hooked on Trump's foolishness. I now have 183 books about him.
Noem seems to fit right in with her apparent hatred of people who have darker skin, much like the Halcyon days of the Ku Klux Klan. And we all know Trump and the GOP love to use acronyms. For example, ICE = Immigration and Customs Enforcement. SAVE is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. And KKK represents the Ku Klux Klan. It is interesting that Kristi Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, or for short, just KLAN!
How anyone can be surprised by his actions is what boggles my mind. He’s been consistently honest about who he is, and that’s the only honesty that has come out of him. He’s ruined this country just like everything he’s ever touched.
Consider the possibility that if the country hadn't already been on the road to ruin, Trump never would have been elected. It had to get this bad before "we the people" woke the hell up -- meaning especially "we the white people" and most of the Democrats in Congress.
We are fucked. Netanyahu lit up the “Bat Signal” — and demented, delighted, sociopath Herr Drumph was delighted to kill more people—even a whole children’s school. That’s just a start. Remember Slim Pickens giddily riding the nuclear warhead to start WWIII in “Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?” Maybe Hegseth can do this now.
It is pretty clear to me he needs a war, any war to be able to use the excuse that in time of war there are no elections. He is running out of time before November.
Dr. Mary Trump, I hope many people will sign, send, and share this war resolution to help our country and our world. Thank you for your work. I will read your message this evening. For now, I am trying to share this urgently needed resolution.
🚩Here is the link from Senator Tammy Duckworth to sign Senator Tim Kaine’s War Resolution Calling Republicans back to Congress Immediately. I signed it and hope more people will sign and share it.
Since I started sharing this war resolution today, also received one from Senator Mark Kelly. I am hoping these are going around and that a lot of people will sign them because we really need Congress to convene and do what is necessary to stop this war. We need them to hold the instigating person responsible.
We also need them to work diligently to have all of the Epstein files released, as redacted as possible. We could contact each of the legislators, asking how soon they will have all of the remaining Epstein files, and how soon they can get through them and hold everyone who took part in the operation responsible. We owe it to the victims, and we owe it to the protection of everyone else in the future.
The telling moment (mostly recently…there have been so many) should have been at the SOTU address when Donald declared that he could do whatever he wanted without the approval of Congress, and the entire Republican Party gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps they should have then just headed out the door, since they are no longer needed in Washington.
I’m terrified he will lead us into WWIII, which will end badly for the US and entire world. If he gets us in a nuclear war, it’s over for us all. I am praying someone steps in someway to stop him. It might already be too late. Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you can’t put it back.
What I have not been able to (emotionally or intellectually) accept since 2015, is why and how such a large number of the citizens/voters can't or won't see the gross psychopathology, sickness, evil, whatever you want to call it, of this guy (and his support structure) - when it is so dramatically paraded in front of us every single day. And the number of people who will sell out this country, and the democratic world.
While we can all agree that: "A lethal combination of incompetence, hubris, and greed are driving this disaster," we must also acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: Our Military are apparently Fat, Dumb, and Happy laying their lives and safety on the line, in supporting this wannabe tyrant while simultaneously burning the US Constitution to ashes.
Thank you for this spot on analysis, Mary. On my own Substack, I have written that your lying, demented uncle is the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime. Every day, he provides a new reason to think that. I used to be ashamed of calling him POTUS, until I redefined POTUS to mean “Piece Of Totally Untruthful Shit”.
I have to agree that Trump *is* the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime too (I was b. 1951), but as I keep saying, he didn't come out of nowhere. The country has been on the road to Trump for my entire adult life, starting with the backlash to the civil rights and women's movements, the Nixon administration (with a tip of the hat to Spiro Agnew), the Reagan administration, the end of the Fairness Doctrine, the corporate consolidation of "news" media, the end of Glass-Steagall, the Patriot Act, the Bush-Cheney administration, the Citizens United decision . . . And the right-wingers started incubating the seeds of Project 2025 during the New Deal (if not earlier).
You got all that right.
You mentioned Glass-Steagal being ended. That happened when Clinton was sent a bipartisan bill called the banking modernization act. He signed it into law. What it did was give the Bankster the ability to steal from the American people. There were so many crimes associated with that that went unpunished. So many people in the financial industry were in on it and that was when they really started moving wealth from the bottom to the top. Two decent Americans, senators John McCain and Elizabeth Warren got legislation passed to restore something similar to Glass/Steagall which stopped the plundering by the banks. A lot of bankers and financial people should’ve been brought to justice. They should’ve been hung publicly but that didn’t happen.
When I think about the Nixon era I think to myself that since Nixon we’ve had some horrible presidents both Democrat and Republican. We thought Nixon was the devil. People around Nixon went to prison and rightfully so. Nobody in the Trump mob will be going to prison. Justice will not be done at least not by the courts but if somebody were to take the lawn to their own hands and kill a bunch of them and if I run that person’s jury I would vote up guilty by reason of patriotism.
Hound, I am with you until you got to the killing of "a bunch of them." Such killing creates martyrs and provides the base on which to build the next collection of stupids with their own "project 2025."
I don’t think if some of the real scumbags in the world were to be taken out it wouldn’t create too many martyrs. If the Epstein gang were sentenced to death and executed I don’t think too many people would feel bad about it. If former Prince Andrew were executed I think the people of the United Kingdom would jump for joy.
Hound, I think it would definitely depend on who died. I think most people would be OK if the culprits of the disgusting abuse and trafficking and violence against the people were to be imprisoned for life with no chance of parole or pardon.
My understanding of banking and finance is sketchy -- it's like a language that I've tried to study but never become fluent in -- but I believe that the gutting of Glass-Steagall led directly to the banking collapse and recession of the late 2000s. And indirectly to rise of "dark money" and the Tea Party and the Citizens United decision: the white right, both Big Money and Teeny-Tiny Money freaked out at the election of Barack Obama, who they thought was not only Black but (unlike Clinton) outside their control.
I have little faith in justice being done either. It sure wasn't done after the financial collapse of the late 2000s, but I'm thinking especially of the end of Reconstruction and how the white South was allowed, by the white North, to rise again. That's an evil genie that still wreaking havoc on what I used to call our aspiring democracy, but now I wonder if we're really aspiring anymore.
Susanna, you are so right about those events. I keep wondering why so many mostly white men hate America so much. I can't help but wonder what they have as their end goal, slavery for everyone but themselves, so only they gain wealth and power? It truly is appalling, but somehow, few ever call out the hypocrisy of claiming patriotism while they are working to destroy the thing their patriotism is supposed to support. It really is disgusting! I do wish we had enough courageous people in power, in Congress, on the courts who could say "stop" and do what is required to stop the right-wing hatred of everyone who is not them, and they hate most of them too. Then hold them accountable for the damage, the deaths, the disillusion they are responsible for, and that is a lot!
They do not hate America! They love the America of today where the rich keep getting richer and the rich never face consequences for their actions. They love not caring about anyone but themselves! That is the America the wealthy and powerful live in and they don’t care about the rest of us!
Judy, alas, that is the world of Trump and his toddler pool, including Republicans in Congress and a few Democrats too. There are more of us than them, so we are going to have to figure out ways to defeat them enmasse if possible. They will never give up what they have stolen and believe they deserve!
But they *love* America -- their America. Their America is the America of the founders, where white men were in charge. They probably don't realize that many of them wouldn't have been eligible to vote, but white male solidarity runs very, very deep. They fought for the Confederacy, though it didn't have their interests in mind. They were all in with Jim Crow because it gave them other men to look down on.
I came of political age in the late 1960s. I'm at best ambivalent about "America." I don't stand for or say the Pledge of Allegiance. I don't stand for or sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." (I'm OK with "America the Beautiful" and "This Land Is Your Land.") About 15 years ago I adopted a Canadian friend's habit of referring to residents of the U.S. as "USians," not as "Americans." Why should residents of the country south of Canada and north of Mexico appropriate for their exclusive use a name that should apply to pretty much everyone in the Western Hemisphere?
Exactly. Uninformed MAGA cult and greedy GOP. Makes the case for required civics & history classes or maybe a valid college degree. Trump has degrees but clearly juiced his way through it.
I'd date it at Lincoln's assassination. Otherwise you miss the rise of the KKK, the implementation of legalized segregation to replace slavery, and the actual birth of the right wing movement that has grown into the sad lot that runs the country today. Imagine if Lincoln had been left alive to finish the job, instead of being replaced by a Southern sympathizing compromiser who could just as easily have fought on the Confederate side.
Even worse...
NOT ONLY does trump "not care" about America ...
trump NEVER EVEN THINKS about America or Americans....
...or ANYONE ELSE in the WHOLE WORLD!!
To trump, NONE of US even EXIST except to pleasure him.
Just like the young girls...
What DECADES of HISTORY have shown us ALL...
trump HAS NO LOYALTY to ANYONE ELSE EVER!!
This is my POV-
He has master manipulated most of the World with his marketing strategy scheme and catchy corny acronyms! People have fallen for his false intentions and absurd promises. It appears he can do no wrong and they will follow him into a burning pit, for him to be the only survivor!. This was always the plan.
Its plain as day, his interest is to gain profit. His agenda does not seem to better America, in fact quite the opposite! He is the problem and creating so much chaos amongst each other! Humanity is slipping further away! He is and has always been that “salesman” knocking on the door, with a money making gimmick.
I also believe that Project 2025 was really supposed to have been Project 2021. They are 4 years behind schedule, so of course they've achieved the most in 2 months and 3 days!
BE SAFE.
The only people he has ever been able to manipulate are those with an IQ even lower than him. Other world leaders know that they only need stroke his huge ego and they can usually manipulate him to get what they want. Especially China. What he is doing to our military with his right wing christian nationalists is just disgusting and he should be removed from the White House asap along with the whole regime! "Annoited by Jesus to ignite Armageddon"! Why are Hogsbreath and his lackey's being allowed to feed such BS to our troops?
So true, Sky Blue.
The only time he cares about Americans is when he can con them into doing something for him or sending him their hard earned money. Then, he does not see them as people only as suckers.
Kelly, and the truth is that they are suckers. They would rather believe a serial liar and cheat who proves over and over his contempt for them than the truth of how they are being used and abused. Truly depressing!
Anyone who doesn’t believe that is hopeless.
There are things worse than Donald Trump. The worst thing is is that our government failed so catastrophically that we have allowed a convicted felon, a pedophile, a womanizer, an insurrectionist, a traitor, a thief, a rapist to become leader of the free world. That’s way more worse than Donald Trump. Donald Trump could drop dead and a problem would not go away. If somebody shoots him that would be bad because it would make him a martyr.
We have a government that was aware for more than two decades about Epstein and his pedophile rape club and our government turned a blind eye to it. Why? Because most of those child raping pedophiles were some of the most powerful people in the world who were raping children. That’s not the only thing they did and probably continue to do. Their tentacles reached all around the globe. They were part of moving wealth from the bottom to the top.
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were buddies along with Epstein. Bill Clinton was probably raping kids too but he came out and said that he has no knowledge that Donald Trump did anything wrong. He’s lying. Bill Clinton’s a liar and he’s a sex pervert. That lied just got Clinton off the hook. The other thing about the Clintons that most people don’t know is that they are worth about $250 million and they accumulated that wealth while he was president and after his president presidency and it was sleazy wealth and the same is true for Obama. He is worth 70 million and that wealth is growing every day. He doesn’t need that much money. Bill Clinton knew what was going on on pedophile Island and he probably participated in it. Nobody who went to pedophile Island was going there too swim and fish. They were going there to rape and torture kids and reach depths of depravity foreign two what humans can conceive or do. If I were the king in the world I would round up every one of them throw them in a huge pit and douse them in gasoline and toss it a match. Vengeance is probably healing. It’s justice. Humans want to see justice done because there’s something in us that we were born with that wants justice. We want to see the wicked punished appropriately. The appropriate punishment for these corporate criminal billionaires would be to keep them alive for 200 years and torture them every day. Anything else wouldn’t be enough because we can’t hate them enough.
True - But if he were to pass next week, we are still left with those who would elect to put into the White House such as he. This is the stain we will be left with.
The MAGAT is a whole other animal and they have existed since the beginning the evolution of the Homosapien. They are not human because they have no humanity or not enough to be called human so we’re going to have to deal with them psychologically and perhaps scare them off like it would a rats in the chicken coop or wolves among the sheep. If we get a lawful Democrat majority, they should punish the red states by withdrawing federal funds because it is the red state that are the parasite states and it is the blue states that are the donor states. We give and those idiots take that needs to stop. No mercy for MAGATS.
Yes, we have always had such as them, but not in the sheer numbers needed to put him in the White House. I am n a quandary as to what I am to think of those who voted for him.
You are correct Hound. This is on us. We must have accountability this time. Corruption, rape, human trafficking, theft, grift, war crimes, kidnapping, lawless govt agents, all in plain sight. Consequences now or we are doomed to repeat this. The Epstein Class must be sent to hell where they belong.
There are two types of people in the world there are humans and there are the rest of them. The human will suffer and fight and die for what is right even though they know they’re only passing through. Those are the lyrics from the song by Leonard Cohen but they are true.
The subhuman exists to satisfy their egos, their lust, their greed and their depravity. You can identify one of these animals by the trappings Of wealth such as I’ve seen expensive cars, Rolex watches, The mansions they live in And their vulgar attitudes. Obscene wealth puts them above the law and makes a person who is already born to be an asshole and even bigger asshole. The only thing that motivates the billionaire or corporate rat is fear. Given the choice of living a life where they will be safe from the people who hate them or them keeping their ill-gotten wealth It would be interesting to see what they would do are they willing to risk their lives to satisfy their greed Or will they give up their obscene wealth To be safe from the angry peasant class? Maybe that should be put to the test?
Adding "OS" solves the problem: POSOTUS.
Completely agree. The greed is unbelievable. We are the collateral damage.
Maybe if Trump or one of his children had been brave enough to join a branch of our Military, maybe then he’d recognize & realize that War isn’t a game.
I believe his youngest son should have to join a branch of our Military. Since Trump nonchalantly dismisses the deaths of the Service Member’s so far, saying “there will be more”, then his youngest son whose Mother is not American Born, should go into Service!
Trump has NO IDEA what it’s like to be willing to lay down your life for the Country you love! Probably doesn’t even love America!
At least not enough to go to Vietnam, like so many others DID! Bone Spurs Dump fought going 5 times! What a POS!
His Grandfather did the same thing- dodged mandatory military service in Germany. Citizenship was denied, and banned from returning were the repercussions.
He also owned brothels as business ventures. One can only imagine the ages of those female workers during that period.
That has to be the time when feelings of disgust, disregard and discrimination towards females was formed. The females that made him money. That thinking process leads to generational learned behavior and inherited tendencies. This is probably why someone's name has the most mentions in the E files. *my POV and research*
So learned... a long trail of bloody women there, like you can almost see it, surely many women can feel it. If we have to suffer this s%&!, how can we feint the next time, get him to be a good boy, take his swing and free mosco? Lashing as$&^le.
I agree with you absolutely! He also has an 18 year old granddaughter that could enlist. It's good enough for the princes of England. Time to contribute something to America instead of taking.
Donald’s model is always to create chaos and profit from it. He launched this war in violation of the constitution to do one thing, create chaos so he can either postpone or cancel the midterm election because he knows he has no chance of winning. He’s a desperate little man who may have just started World War III.
Yes, JohnWallerich, I believe trump IS starting WW III... with ALL it's horrors...on purpose.
Just to say "FUCK YOU" to the WHOLE WORLD before he dies.
At this point... trump believes has nothing to lose.
ESPECIALLY because of his true realization that he CANNOT OUTRUN the trump-epstein Files.
And the humiliation trump would have to endure being imprisoned.
trump and his maga cult regime HAVE put the Whole World in very dire straits!
ON PURPOSE...
Spot on.
And distract from the Trump-Epstein files
Given the fact, Donald is such a deep sociopath, starting World War III to avoid accountability for his crimes against children that the Epstein files clearly show he clearly committed, is just normal for people like him. This is why his own niece, called him the most dangerous man on earth. But he couldn’t have done it without the most spineless soulless group of people in America, the GOP.
George Will recorded a great piece not too long ago in which he talked about this and how all authoritarian dictators before they die plaster the name all over everything as though it’s a way of leaving a legacy. That’s exactly what Trump is doing. The Kennedy Center, Penn Station, the Washington Tunnel, the Washington monument. This is not your normal demented madness that we’ve become accustomed to seeing out of this malignant narcissist. He even mentioned recently that he’s probably not going to heaven. The back of his hands are turning black, which is a clear sign of congestive heart failure. Most doctors have given him less than six months. He may actually view starring World War III as a way of establishing his legacy, as insane as that is.
On this topic, I fall back on Mark Twain, who said, “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with great excitement quote.
Thank you for one of the best quotes!
I believe there are most likely a few million people who would agree!
I believe that George Will thing was an AI generated video. The one I saw had a disclaimer in small print on the picture.Fooled several friends, but not my brother, who was a GW fan back in the day.
Here's something to brighten your day. BTW, Mary, I read your first book by accident and it got be hooked on Trump's foolishness. I now have 183 books about him.
Noem seems to fit right in with her apparent hatred of people who have darker skin, much like the Halcyon days of the Ku Klux Klan. And we all know Trump and the GOP love to use acronyms. For example, ICE = Immigration and Customs Enforcement. SAVE is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. And KKK represents the Ku Klux Klan. It is interesting that Kristi Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, or for short, just KLAN!
Whoa! Now I'm wondering if the "Arnold" was to honor Benedict Arnold.
Bert, I believe the word you were looking for is "acronym", not "anagram".
You are absolutely right. I rushed my post without being more careful. Thanks for catching it. I have corrected it.
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How anyone can be surprised by his actions is what boggles my mind. He’s been consistently honest about who he is, and that’s the only honesty that has come out of him. He’s ruined this country just like everything he’s ever touched.
What DECADES of HISTORY have shown us ALL...
trump has NO LOYALTY to ANYONE ELSE EVER!!
THAT'S why EVERYTHING trump TOUCHES DIES!
Or only chance is to STAY STRONGER TOGETHER and remake this country into the image of the majority of Americans.
The MAJORITY of AMERICANS want PEACE and SAFETY for ALL!
Consider the possibility that if the country hadn't already been on the road to ruin, Trump never would have been elected. It had to get this bad before "we the people" woke the hell up -- meaning especially "we the white people" and most of the Democrats in Congress.
We are fucked. Netanyahu lit up the “Bat Signal” — and demented, delighted, sociopath Herr Drumph was delighted to kill more people—even a whole children’s school. That’s just a start. Remember Slim Pickens giddily riding the nuclear warhead to start WWIII in “Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?” Maybe Hegseth can do this now.
It is pretty clear to me he needs a war, any war to be able to use the excuse that in time of war there are no elections. He is running out of time before November.
And it is also to keep the walls from closing in on him, the child rapist
Funny, we had elections during WW II and it was just fine. /s
Dr. Mary Trump, I hope many people will sign, send, and share this war resolution to help our country and our world. Thank you for your work. I will read your message this evening. For now, I am trying to share this urgently needed resolution.
🚩Here is the link from Senator Tammy Duckworth to sign Senator Tim Kaine’s War Resolution Calling Republicans back to Congress Immediately. I signed it and hope more people will sign and share it.
https://act.tammyduckworth.com/signup/tde-em-march26-iran/?source=em260301-1-15&akid=3517%2E813159%2ED1OFJb
Since I started sharing this war resolution today, also received one from Senator Mark Kelly. I am hoping these are going around and that a lot of people will sign them because we really need Congress to convene and do what is necessary to stop this war. We need them to hold the instigating person responsible.
We also need them to work diligently to have all of the Epstein files released, as redacted as possible. We could contact each of the legislators, asking how soon they will have all of the remaining Epstein files, and how soon they can get through them and hold everyone who took part in the operation responsible. We owe it to the victims, and we owe it to the protection of everyone else in the future.
YEP
It's all to distract us from the Epstein files. Just my opinion.
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Totally agree with you, Mary.
The telling moment (mostly recently…there have been so many) should have been at the SOTU address when Donald declared that he could do whatever he wanted without the approval of Congress, and the entire Republican Party gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps they should have then just headed out the door, since they are no longer needed in Washington.
I’m terrified he will lead us into WWIII, which will end badly for the US and entire world. If he gets us in a nuclear war, it’s over for us all. I am praying someone steps in someway to stop him. It might already be too late. Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you can’t put it back.
What I have not been able to (emotionally or intellectually) accept since 2015, is why and how such a large number of the citizens/voters can't or won't see the gross psychopathology, sickness, evil, whatever you want to call it, of this guy (and his support structure) - when it is so dramatically paraded in front of us every single day. And the number of people who will sell out this country, and the democratic world.
Thank you for your expert analysis, Mary.
While we can all agree that: "A lethal combination of incompetence, hubris, and greed are driving this disaster," we must also acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: Our Military are apparently Fat, Dumb, and Happy laying their lives and safety on the line, in supporting this wannabe tyrant while simultaneously burning the US Constitution to ashes.