Yes, I was disappointed that MTN didn't seem to cover it. In fact, I don't think I even heard it was happening! With the Dropkick Murphys headlining it! It was pretty raw and unfiltered, from what I saw, and there was no mistaking the theme of the day. Was anyone in Congress listening?
F-U Solomon!!! Dipshit......Your the Fauxwashed bottomfeeder loser who has no clue. Anyone with half-a maggot brain knows that Chucles and Jeffires are hooked on AIPAC $$$$$.
Well, start with claiming Meidas ignored Trump's tete a tete with Mamdani. Careful reading is your friend. And the empty attacks on Schumer and Jeffries are getting old.
This is ultra-weird. I can't find any real coverage (I try not to get news from YouTube videos) and when I googled it I found a flock of stories about a "Remove the Regime" protest in --Charleston, S.C. which says it was attended by "dozens" or "hundred" depending on the account but appears to have gotten saturation coverage from the local media, including the local TV stations and the local newspaper. So little Charleston S.C. does a better job than the "mainstream" media.
I hope that when the house begins filing resolutions to impeach and remove Trump, that each resolution be on one point only. Then as soon as the senate rejects it, the house can submit another resolution on a different charge. And keep the cycle going until the Democrats can control both chambers again
After that, let the Democrats choose a Speaker who they can trust to serve as potus, then impeach Vance first and only then impeach and remove Trump.
YES! You make an important point to do things in order, so we can have the top people in government be accountable, honest, transparent,trustworthy, and have all Americans best interests be served.
I have thought about this, impeaching vance first, unfortunately, that will do little.
If the vp seat is left vacant, trump chooses a replacement, they must be confirmed by a majority vote in the House and Senate.
If one chamber does not confirm the replacement, they cannot be vp and another nominee must be confirmed. This goes on until both chambers confirm the person will be majority vote in each chamber.
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. My comment is entirely predicated on the Democrats gaining majorities in both chambers and working with a newfound singularity of purpose, not the usual herd of cats, to bring the USA back on track from being an international pariah.
Here is the good news, more than 1 person can be impeached at a time. They do not have to be charged with the same offense. The Constitution does not say this can be done, but it does not say it cannot be done. Obviously, it has never been tested.
The line of succession ends with the cabinet members, if they are all removed things get very interesting.
Assuming Trump's health allows for impeachment. Your plan to remove Trump and the Project 2025 crew is laudable, but I suspect will backfire. We need buy in from the masses of Americans. The more this looks like partisan maneuvering the less people accept it, and the harder it will be to push forward the changes this nation really needs. Consider the long game. We don't need bandaids as much as we need to hog tie the oligarchy and flush their corruption down the toilet. We need full on public Healthcare and a living wage, reforms to SCOTUS, and tribunals. Corporate Dems can go too. Those are tall orders and it's going to take a wide swath of the people pushing to make it happen.
the problem is that you'll take both sides in this post. If we need "buy in from the masses of Americans," well, that's precisely what many Democrats have been telling us and getting attacked for being "corporate Dems." And we need to be careful who we tar with that brush because it can lead us to make ourselves weaker. We have a case in Massachusetts right now where a young congressman is trying to primary one of the strongest — but much older — progressives in the Senate. But some are buying this due to optics and that broad brush — that someone new must automatically be more progressive (which Seth Moulton is not.)
Why not just try the #Liz48Plan?Impeach both Trump and Vance in one move, the thought being that Vance will resign rather than face the horrible music of a trial.
Your post has prompted me to think good comes out of bad. Just perhaps a new more cohesive America will emerge. Having to come together to defeat an enemy brings about the best in people.
How true your statement is. Remember the rally of the people after the attacks on twin towers and we all can now join in this rally fron the attack from within.Vote pro American and show respect for your country and for your neighbors.
For our Thanksgivings of the future, here is a clear picture of how America will emerge and truly become the beacon of light on the hill.
A Programmatic Agenda for Economic Democracy
Economic democracy speaks to people’s and local communities’ experience of economic dis-empowerment.
Economic democracy offers a vision of an economy that is by, for and of the people — not by, for and of corporations.
For a full flourishing of economic democracy, there are four core requirements which need to be met. Two of these requirements ensure the economic empowerment of individuals, and two ensure community empowerment.
These requirements define economic democracy in principle. But, for economic democracy to be taken up as a popular movement, it needs to be programmatically presented. It needs to be projected as concrete demands that people readily identify with. It must be an agenda that captures their economic aspirations.
Such a programmatic presentation of economic democracy has not been proposed (at least not in its four requirements framework).
Until now. I’ve been prompted by reader Peggy Freedman to take this up.
I feel obligated to respond. However, this assignment is beyond my capacity. At best, I can take a first pass, but hopefully done well enough to show what’s possible.
The format I use is similar to that of the Black Panther Party’s famous “10 Point Program”, a set of demands for reform that encapsulated their aspirations for Black American communities.
Let me know what you think. What should be? What removed? What expressed better? What about this framework does, or doesn’t, speak to you?
Requirement 1 — The basic necessities and amenities of life should be guaranteed to all, according to standards appropriate to the region and the age.
• We want a constitutional guarantee that all Americans have a right to the basic necessities of life.
• We want 100 percent employment at a living wage or salary for all who are of working age, able to work, and desiring work.
• We want an economy that makes universally available the basic necessities of life according to the standards of region and time.
• We want economic development that provides quality job/profession training, at diverse skill levels, for jobs that are locally available, in local economies that maintain diverse opportunities for employment.
• We want sustainable economic development that ensures the ongoing availability of, and replenishment of, local resources.
Requirement 2 — There should be ever-increasing purchasing power enjoyed by all.
• We want wages and salaries to rise as society’s collective wealth increases.
• We demand equitable distribution of income.
• We want wages an end to the extraction of wealth from our labor to inflate the riches of corporate owners, exorbitantly paid executives, and investment stockholders.
• We want an end to speculative markets that are economically unproductive.
• We want the fluid circulation of money.
• We want a progressive reduction in work hours commensurate with society’s increased use of automation and artificial intelligence.
• We want an economy that can sustain increased purchasing power without depleting resources.
Requirement 3 — The power to make economic decisions should be vested in the hands of local people and their decisions should be made on the basis of collective necessity.
• We want an end to the ability of outside corporations to close local factories without local community permission.
• We want an end to job outsourcing without local community permission.
• We want established local and regional planning boards, empowered to bring capital and other assets for building local enterprises.
• We want the use of local natural resources to be in the hands of local communities, conditional on observing environmental laws and maintaining sustainability.
• We want local development to focus on producing goods and providing services that meet local needs.
Requirement 4 — People outside the local community should not interfere in the local economy, and locally generated capital should not be drained from the local community.
• We want state banks that issue credit/debit cards, give student loans, and provide capital for local development initiatives.
• We want to restrict the ability of franchise enterprises to drain capital from local communities.
• We want all hospitals, schools, housing, offices, news media, and other collective amenities to be locally owned.
• We want representatives of outside banks, corporations, investment funds, etc. off the Boards of local enterprises.
I see these ideas as a great starting point and the emphasis on local would rejuvenate small towns, put more power in the hands of the people and drive down costs and lot of transportation related and junk products related pollutions. It doesn’t seem as socialist as much as giving local folks more power but the regulations it would take would require there still be a strong fed govt that must put the well being of state and local entities over corporate ones. With that comes a need to get money donors and lobbying out of govt completely.
JMull, you stated it very clearly with " It doesn’t seem as socialist as much as giving local folks more power but the regulations it would take would require there still be a strong fed govt that must put the well being of state and local entities over corporate ones.
I think many would describe that as socialism. No bad thing in my book. However there will be many critics. I really don’t know how it could be achieved from where you’re starting. Mamdani is the guy to watch, see what he can achieve in one city.
Agree…We have Social Security, Post Offices, Fire Houses, Police, Hospitals etc…It all stems from Democratic Socialism not the one people have been misinformed about…
At first glance, Economic Democracy looks like Democratic Socialism in that it puts the people first. Government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. We are to be the owners and the beneficiaries of the system not the victims who are exploited for the benefit of the billionaires.
Of course there will be many critics, particularly current career politicians and those afraid of change. We must be clear about what we want in order to guide the changes ahead. All the current chaos provides oportunities for systemic change.
The Time has come for Dems to get together with Republicans and discuss the removal of Donald J. Trump. The courts are proving he is violating his oath to the Constitution. He has literally lost his mind with greed and power. He is not performing his duties to the country and the American people. He is not leading. He is grifting, using the country as collateral. He has been enriching himself like never before. Trump is cozy with our enemies and pushing away our allies, while disregarding Congressional procedures. Trump is calling for the death of Democrat lawmakers. How much further can it go?
here's a tiny bit of good (bad for trump) news. Apparently, a large portion of trump's net worth these days is in cryptocurrency. And crypto is down 25% this year!!
I warned friends with crypto months ago to move their funds out of crypto. Some friends did and for those who didn't I'm sorry for them. I hope they will listen to my future warnings. My track record has been phenomenal.
Good for you. I wouldn’t touch it. Idiot Eric trump was on CNN touting crypto, saying in ten years it would replace traditional currency….he then went on to equate its meteoric success to how tech stocks zoomed in the nineties. Guess the idiot forgot how it all crashed and burned in 1999 because the vast majority of the tech stocks had no actual earnings and were selling at astronomical PEs….
You don't lose money until you sell. Bitcoin is a good long term investment, and just because it's down 25% doesn't mean it's doomed. It goes in cycles, and is a global currency, not limited to just the US stock market.
Crypto has a long way to go still, and there are issues with regulation still, with Scams and Criminals using it, but overall it is a good thing, especially decentralized finance. Blockchain can solve a lot of modern problems, and cut costs to outdated systems. It can give the lower class a chance to build wealth and cut out corrupt middle men like banks.
But only if common sense laws are established to protect the average person, while not suffocating the industry and stifling innovation. And it has to prevent the 1% from hijacking crypto to just increase their wealth and power.
I absolutely HATE how the Trump Crime Organization has corrupted the cryptocurrency industry, tarnishing everything. Now everyone automatically dismissed crypto as legitimate and beneficial. I encourage you do DYOR and see the many benefits it can bring to regular Americans, whether that is building wealth, solving bigger problems they will benefit from, democratic governance through Blockchain, transparency and security as well.
Don't just assume that all crypto is bad or a scam, just because Trump has endorsed it and tried to corrupt the industry. Read up about it, yes there's money to be made, but it's so much more than just money.
If Trump just kept Janet Yellen at Treasury and didn’t attack the Fed every week, he would be doing a lot better with the public.
Instead he’s raised prices across the board on the American people with his tariffs and refusal to extend subsidies for healthcare. Things are only going to get worse when the effects of Medicaid cuts are felt and more hospitals close in small towns.
Yes. And when did Presidents get to kick the can by saying 'let's look forward and not back'? Why have any laws at all if they will never be addressed?
DT hasn’t the cognitive and intellectual capacity to make that determination, these plans were made and are being implemented by Project 2025 authors, mostly Theil, Vought, Miller & JD.
You can't vote your way out of fascism. Our elections were already very insecure and DJT used every dirty trick to interfere in the 2024 election. His life was literally on the line, he's a fraud, a liar, a conman, and stole the election. 88 counties flipped red, 0 flipped blue. Even Mondale flipped 33 counties blue in his landslide loss to Reagan in 1984. Winning all 7 swing states with less than 50% of the vote is an astronomical probability. 233 bomb threats, mass reported malfunctions in machines, poll books, and processes. Mass voter suppression, of a minimum confirmed 3.5 million ballots tossed. So many statistical anomalies that show potential vote manipulation.
Smart Elections and election truth alliance have researched and analyzed the election, and according to their data, have launched multiple lawsuits demanding audits and hand recounts.
Thank you, Ben, for waking so many people up and helping us respond to and resist the horrors of this corrupt regime. Your network has inspired others and the truth keeps coming out stronger than ever.
Please take good care of yourself and your loved ones!
Wow Ben, this is one of your best posts! So strong, so inspiring! I'm so proud of my fellow Americans who have spoken out, shown up for protests, shown up to help protect immigrants who are threatened by ICE. My husband and i protest every Saturday in Gettysburg. WE THE PEOPLE will not stop protecting our Democracy and our Constitution! Happy Sunday. ✌️❤️
Thank you, Ben, for so energetically fighting the good fight. The growth in your subscriptions proves to me that We the People are still as strong as we were the first time we fought and won to remove a king. ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️ Keep up the good work! 🙏🏼🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏🏾🥰
To Native Americans Thanksgiving is a day of mourning, the oppression and genocide that followed the peaceful celebration between English settlers and the Wampanoag people. A former resident of Raleigh NC, I watched videos covering ICE raids in NC, principally the blue parts, Wake and Mecklenburg counties, cities of Raleigh and Charlotte.
Perhaps when saying grace before the traditional meals those of us safe from the grasp of masked agents grabbing and throwing to the ground indiscriminately people they THINK should be arrested, we can remember the many native Americans slaughtered at the hands of settlers and say a prayer asking your supreme being of choice that those apprehended by ICE are safe and will be protected by Constitutionally mandated due process.
The true meaning of Thanksgiving is not about ourselves, rather those less fortunate, those in distress.
Being strong and speaking truth to power works, something you do on a daily basis. Thank you and your brothers for leading the way in providing accurate and honest news reporting.
Thank you Ben for keeping sanity in our home. It is so incredible how crazy, hateful and untrue rhetoric has been normalized. My husband and I love reading your emails as well as watching your podcasts.
We keep trying to impeach the wrong guy. Impeach and convict the right guys. Thomas, Alito, Roberts. The probability of conviction is much higher if there is no party affiliation.
No president has ever been convicted because the threshold is too high and party loyalty prevents it. If you convict Trump, you are stuck with Vance. He's a lame duck after the midterm so he will be impotent. Better to remove the people that enabled this madness.
Unfortunately too many Rethuglicans won in school board elections here in Colorado. One of the worst is a school district in / or near Colorado Springs. But, then again, what can you expect from the city that is home to the Focus on the Family fiasco.
Your area is difficult as it is one of several ground zero locations where the AF Academy has been infiltrated by religious zealots trying to remake America into a theocracy. The Xtian Nationalists have been working hard for a while to build up the seed stock to start the theocratic putsch they seek.
They never expected a population of 320M that love their freedom of religion to be so responsive in a negative way to their wolf in sheep’s clothing attacks. More work still needed to restore our 1A freedoms as per our Constitution.
Thank you Ben, and the whole MeidasTouch Network for all the tireless hours of hard work making sure that you continue to bring Truth to Power.
Here's what Midas missed yesterday.
FULL SPEECHES: Massive Anti-Trump Protest at Lincoln Memorial Rocks DC, Demands Removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgxpNxhwd4w
Many thanks to those protesting in DC!
Thank you, Daniel. I wish I could have physically been there. Yes, yes, yes! Impeach Convict Remove!
"I WANT THE RECORD TO KNOW THAT WHEN THE RESISTANCE NEEDED MY VOICE.......I WAS THERE."
Senator Al Green of Texas
IMPEACH..CONVICT...REMOVE DONALD TRUMP
Lincoln Memorial
Washington DC
Yes, I was disappointed that MTN didn't seem to cover it. In fact, I don't think I even heard it was happening! With the Dropkick Murphys headlining it! It was pretty raw and unfiltered, from what I saw, and there was no mistaking the theme of the day. Was anyone in Congress listening?
I wrote emails to as many people I could telling them to impeach Trump, Vance and Johnson. I can't be there physically but I am there spiritually.
Me too!!!!
Midas also missed the fact that Trump got the photo op
with NY City mayor elect Zohram Mamdani.
Shumer and Jeffires failed to endorse him in a positive manner.
Blows me away how the Democrats fail again and again to make those slam-dunks.
You're not accurate at all.
Where am I not accurate........
FULL OF SHIT. If anything Trump disgraced/rtepudiated himself. His own people are turning on him over it!
And that bullshit about Schumer and Jeffries is a lie. MAGAT psy ops captutred your brian.
It was the ONLY thing I watched yesterday. The live stream of the protest was on You Tube. It was great.
F-U Solomon!!! Dipshit......Your the Fauxwashed bottomfeeder loser who has no clue. Anyone with half-a maggot brain knows that Chucles and Jeffires are hooked on AIPAC $$$$$.
Daniel, Schumer did NOT endorse Mamdani: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/elections/schumer-never-endorsed-mamdani/ar-AA1POKlJ
At least 1 whole episode of MTN (if not more) devoted to Mamdani in Oval Office.
Well, start with claiming Meidas ignored Trump's tete a tete with Mamdani. Careful reading is your friend. And the empty attacks on Schumer and Jeffries are getting old.
They did cover it! You were asleep at the wheel…
I'm sorry but what? Pay attention! These attacks on Schumer and especially Jeffries are misguided and self-destructive.
Coverage of Remove the Regime was abominable—by all media.
This is ultra-weird. I can't find any real coverage (I try not to get news from YouTube videos) and when I googled it I found a flock of stories about a "Remove the Regime" protest in --Charleston, S.C. which says it was attended by "dozens" or "hundred" depending on the account but appears to have gotten saturation coverage from the local media, including the local TV stations and the local newspaper. So little Charleston S.C. does a better job than the "mainstream" media.
MTN... Why didn't you cover this????
Who organized this ? Didn’t hear about it! It was huge, bravo!
I hope that when the house begins filing resolutions to impeach and remove Trump, that each resolution be on one point only. Then as soon as the senate rejects it, the house can submit another resolution on a different charge. And keep the cycle going until the Democrats can control both chambers again
After that, let the Democrats choose a Speaker who they can trust to serve as potus, then impeach Vance first and only then impeach and remove Trump.
It’s important to do things in the correct order.
Really good points.
YES! You make an important point to do things in order, so we can have the top people in government be accountable, honest, transparent,trustworthy, and have all Americans best interests be served.
I have thought about this, impeaching vance first, unfortunately, that will do little.
If the vp seat is left vacant, trump chooses a replacement, they must be confirmed by a majority vote in the House and Senate.
If one chamber does not confirm the replacement, they cannot be vp and another nominee must be confirmed. This goes on until both chambers confirm the person will be majority vote in each chamber.
This is spelled out in the 25th Amendment.
Needless to say, I am up in the air about this.
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. My comment is entirely predicated on the Democrats gaining majorities in both chambers and working with a newfound singularity of purpose, not the usual herd of cats, to bring the USA back on track from being an international pariah.
Thank you for your reply.
Here is the good news, more than 1 person can be impeached at a time. They do not have to be charged with the same offense. The Constitution does not say this can be done, but it does not say it cannot be done. Obviously, it has never been tested.
The line of succession ends with the cabinet members, if they are all removed things get very interesting.
Just thought you might want to know.
Wow! That would be rad!
Yes, I think so. I do not know how they would pull it off logistically?
They could spend 2 years doing impeachmentsonly.
If the whole cabinet is removed Congress would have to write a new law and procedures for the line of succession.
The drawback is, you have to impeach each house and senate member individually.
Yes. But will it actually work out like this in practice ?
What would you charge Vance with? Being a pompous creep probably isn't impeachable.
As of now, vance has not committed any impeachable offenses.
He is probably being more cautious with his behavior because the plan from the beginning was for him to become “president” when trump is removed.
I am sure vance is well trained by Peter Thiel and Kevin Roberts, but he is cocky with an attitude problem. He could very well make a mistake.
How about failure to protect and defend the Constitution?
What would the more specific charge be? That's abstract. You have to hang it on specific instance of his doing something or not doing something.
Sharon, yes, you’re right. Too heavy of a hand would certainly provoke another backlash.
Assuming Trump's health allows for impeachment. Your plan to remove Trump and the Project 2025 crew is laudable, but I suspect will backfire. We need buy in from the masses of Americans. The more this looks like partisan maneuvering the less people accept it, and the harder it will be to push forward the changes this nation really needs. Consider the long game. We don't need bandaids as much as we need to hog tie the oligarchy and flush their corruption down the toilet. We need full on public Healthcare and a living wage, reforms to SCOTUS, and tribunals. Corporate Dems can go too. Those are tall orders and it's going to take a wide swath of the people pushing to make it happen.
the problem is that you'll take both sides in this post. If we need "buy in from the masses of Americans," well, that's precisely what many Democrats have been telling us and getting attacked for being "corporate Dems." And we need to be careful who we tar with that brush because it can lead us to make ourselves weaker. We have a case in Massachusetts right now where a young congressman is trying to primary one of the strongest — but much older — progressives in the Senate. But some are buying this due to optics and that broad brush — that someone new must automatically be more progressive (which Seth Moulton is not.)
Why not just try the #Liz48Plan?Impeach both Trump and Vance in one move, the thought being that Vance will resign rather than face the horrible music of a trial.
You need a specific charge though. What would you charge Vance with?
Your post has prompted me to think good comes out of bad. Just perhaps a new more cohesive America will emerge. Having to come together to defeat an enemy brings about the best in people.
How true your statement is. Remember the rally of the people after the attacks on twin towers and we all can now join in this rally fron the attack from within.Vote pro American and show respect for your country and for your neighbors.
For our Thanksgivings of the future, here is a clear picture of how America will emerge and truly become the beacon of light on the hill.
A Programmatic Agenda for Economic Democracy
Economic democracy speaks to people’s and local communities’ experience of economic dis-empowerment.
Economic democracy offers a vision of an economy that is by, for and of the people — not by, for and of corporations.
For a full flourishing of economic democracy, there are four core requirements which need to be met. Two of these requirements ensure the economic empowerment of individuals, and two ensure community empowerment.
These requirements define economic democracy in principle. But, for economic democracy to be taken up as a popular movement, it needs to be programmatically presented. It needs to be projected as concrete demands that people readily identify with. It must be an agenda that captures their economic aspirations.
Such a programmatic presentation of economic democracy has not been proposed (at least not in its four requirements framework).
Until now. I’ve been prompted by reader Peggy Freedman to take this up.
I feel obligated to respond. However, this assignment is beyond my capacity. At best, I can take a first pass, but hopefully done well enough to show what’s possible.
The format I use is similar to that of the Black Panther Party’s famous “10 Point Program”, a set of demands for reform that encapsulated their aspirations for Black American communities.
Let me know what you think. What should be? What removed? What expressed better? What about this framework does, or doesn’t, speak to you?
Requirement 1 — The basic necessities and amenities of life should be guaranteed to all, according to standards appropriate to the region and the age.
• We want a constitutional guarantee that all Americans have a right to the basic necessities of life.
• We want 100 percent employment at a living wage or salary for all who are of working age, able to work, and desiring work.
• We want an economy that makes universally available the basic necessities of life according to the standards of region and time.
• We want economic development that provides quality job/profession training, at diverse skill levels, for jobs that are locally available, in local economies that maintain diverse opportunities for employment.
• We want sustainable economic development that ensures the ongoing availability of, and replenishment of, local resources.
Requirement 2 — There should be ever-increasing purchasing power enjoyed by all.
• We want wages and salaries to rise as society’s collective wealth increases.
• We demand equitable distribution of income.
• We want wages an end to the extraction of wealth from our labor to inflate the riches of corporate owners, exorbitantly paid executives, and investment stockholders.
• We want an end to speculative markets that are economically unproductive.
• We want the fluid circulation of money.
• We want a progressive reduction in work hours commensurate with society’s increased use of automation and artificial intelligence.
• We want an economy that can sustain increased purchasing power without depleting resources.
Requirement 3 — The power to make economic decisions should be vested in the hands of local people and their decisions should be made on the basis of collective necessity.
• We want an end to the ability of outside corporations to close local factories without local community permission.
• We want an end to job outsourcing without local community permission.
• We want established local and regional planning boards, empowered to bring capital and other assets for building local enterprises.
• We want the use of local natural resources to be in the hands of local communities, conditional on observing environmental laws and maintaining sustainability.
• We want local development to focus on producing goods and providing services that meet local needs.
Requirement 4 — People outside the local community should not interfere in the local economy, and locally generated capital should not be drained from the local community.
• We want state banks that issue credit/debit cards, give student loans, and provide capital for local development initiatives.
• We want to restrict the ability of franchise enterprises to drain capital from local communities.
• We want all hospitals, schools, housing, offices, news media, and other collective amenities to be locally owned.
• We want representatives of outside banks, corporations, investment funds, etc. off the Boards of local enterprises.
Ronald Logan
I see these ideas as a great starting point and the emphasis on local would rejuvenate small towns, put more power in the hands of the people and drive down costs and lot of transportation related and junk products related pollutions. It doesn’t seem as socialist as much as giving local folks more power but the regulations it would take would require there still be a strong fed govt that must put the well being of state and local entities over corporate ones. With that comes a need to get money donors and lobbying out of govt completely.
JMull, you stated it very clearly with " It doesn’t seem as socialist as much as giving local folks more power but the regulations it would take would require there still be a strong fed govt that must put the well being of state and local entities over corporate ones.
I think many would describe that as socialism. No bad thing in my book. However there will be many critics. I really don’t know how it could be achieved from where you’re starting. Mamdani is the guy to watch, see what he can achieve in one city.
Agree…We have Social Security, Post Offices, Fire Houses, Police, Hospitals etc…It all stems from Democratic Socialism not the one people have been misinformed about…
At first glance, Economic Democracy looks like Democratic Socialism in that it puts the people first. Government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. We are to be the owners and the beneficiaries of the system not the victims who are exploited for the benefit of the billionaires.
Of course there will be many critics, particularly current career politicians and those afraid of change. We must be clear about what we want in order to guide the changes ahead. All the current chaos provides oportunities for systemic change.
Good thoughts. Was tax the rich in there?
ABSOLUTELY
The Time has come for Dems to get together with Republicans and discuss the removal of Donald J. Trump. The courts are proving he is violating his oath to the Constitution. He has literally lost his mind with greed and power. He is not performing his duties to the country and the American people. He is not leading. He is grifting, using the country as collateral. He has been enriching himself like never before. Trump is cozy with our enemies and pushing away our allies, while disregarding Congressional procedures. Trump is calling for the death of Democrat lawmakers. How much further can it go?
here's a tiny bit of good (bad for trump) news. Apparently, a large portion of trump's net worth these days is in cryptocurrency. And crypto is down 25% this year!!
I warned friends with crypto months ago to move their funds out of crypto. Some friends did and for those who didn't I'm sorry for them. I hope they will listen to my future warnings. My track record has been phenomenal.
Good for you. I wouldn’t touch it. Idiot Eric trump was on CNN touting crypto, saying in ten years it would replace traditional currency….he then went on to equate its meteoric success to how tech stocks zoomed in the nineties. Guess the idiot forgot how it all crashed and burned in 1999 because the vast majority of the tech stocks had no actual earnings and were selling at astronomical PEs….
You don't lose money until you sell. Bitcoin is a good long term investment, and just because it's down 25% doesn't mean it's doomed. It goes in cycles, and is a global currency, not limited to just the US stock market.
Crypto has a long way to go still, and there are issues with regulation still, with Scams and Criminals using it, but overall it is a good thing, especially decentralized finance. Blockchain can solve a lot of modern problems, and cut costs to outdated systems. It can give the lower class a chance to build wealth and cut out corrupt middle men like banks.
But only if common sense laws are established to protect the average person, while not suffocating the industry and stifling innovation. And it has to prevent the 1% from hijacking crypto to just increase their wealth and power.
I absolutely HATE how the Trump Crime Organization has corrupted the cryptocurrency industry, tarnishing everything. Now everyone automatically dismissed crypto as legitimate and beneficial. I encourage you do DYOR and see the many benefits it can bring to regular Americans, whether that is building wealth, solving bigger problems they will benefit from, democratic governance through Blockchain, transparency and security as well.
Don't just assume that all crypto is bad or a scam, just because Trump has endorsed it and tried to corrupt the industry. Read up about it, yes there's money to be made, but it's so much more than just money.
The Heritage Foundation is running the country.
That needs to be in all caps on billboards coast to coast.
Exactly! All the focus is on numb nuts. THF needs to be mentioned everyday as well!
But Vance needs to go too. He'll actually be worse than Trump if he is President
He'll continue with Project 2025 until it's complete and beyond. Thiel has his grip on Vance.
If Trump just kept Janet Yellen at Treasury and didn’t attack the Fed every week, he would be doing a lot better with the public.
Instead he’s raised prices across the board on the American people with his tariffs and refusal to extend subsidies for healthcare. Things are only going to get worse when the effects of Medicaid cuts are felt and more hospitals close in small towns.
If trump was put in jail for the shit he pulled years ago. We wouldn't even be talking about him anymore.
Yes. And when did Presidents get to kick the can by saying 'let's look forward and not back'? Why have any laws at all if they will never be addressed?
Wonder where Trump got his idea to control us by taking away our right to anything…Voting Democracy in is our only salvation…
DT hasn’t the cognitive and intellectual capacity to make that determination, these plans were made and are being implemented by Project 2025 authors, mostly Theil, Vought, Miller & JD.
The idea is straight from Peter Thiel. It's the old Hitler handbook.
You can't vote your way out of fascism. Our elections were already very insecure and DJT used every dirty trick to interfere in the 2024 election. His life was literally on the line, he's a fraud, a liar, a conman, and stole the election. 88 counties flipped red, 0 flipped blue. Even Mondale flipped 33 counties blue in his landslide loss to Reagan in 1984. Winning all 7 swing states with less than 50% of the vote is an astronomical probability. 233 bomb threats, mass reported malfunctions in machines, poll books, and processes. Mass voter suppression, of a minimum confirmed 3.5 million ballots tossed. So many statistical anomalies that show potential vote manipulation.
Smart Elections and election truth alliance have researched and analyzed the election, and according to their data, have launched multiple lawsuits demanding audits and hand recounts.
Your work is never ending as you seek truth and justice for the American way. You are super heroes.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ben, for waking so many people up and helping us respond to and resist the horrors of this corrupt regime. Your network has inspired others and the truth keeps coming out stronger than ever.
Please take good care of yourself and your loved ones!
Wow Ben, this is one of your best posts! So strong, so inspiring! I'm so proud of my fellow Americans who have spoken out, shown up for protests, shown up to help protect immigrants who are threatened by ICE. My husband and i protest every Saturday in Gettysburg. WE THE PEOPLE will not stop protecting our Democracy and our Constitution! Happy Sunday. ✌️❤️
Thank you, Ben, for so energetically fighting the good fight. The growth in your subscriptions proves to me that We the People are still as strong as we were the first time we fought and won to remove a king. ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️ Keep up the good work! 🙏🏼🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏🏾🥰
Thankful for the MeidasTouch Network, for your passion and energy being shared with us, the Meidas Mighty!
To Native Americans Thanksgiving is a day of mourning, the oppression and genocide that followed the peaceful celebration between English settlers and the Wampanoag people. A former resident of Raleigh NC, I watched videos covering ICE raids in NC, principally the blue parts, Wake and Mecklenburg counties, cities of Raleigh and Charlotte.
Perhaps when saying grace before the traditional meals those of us safe from the grasp of masked agents grabbing and throwing to the ground indiscriminately people they THINK should be arrested, we can remember the many native Americans slaughtered at the hands of settlers and say a prayer asking your supreme being of choice that those apprehended by ICE are safe and will be protected by Constitutionally mandated due process.
The true meaning of Thanksgiving is not about ourselves, rather those less fortunate, those in distress.
God bless you and yours, Ben. Wishing you all the best Thanksgiving possible!
Being strong and speaking truth to power works, something you do on a daily basis. Thank you and your brothers for leading the way in providing accurate and honest news reporting.
Thank you Ben for keeping sanity in our home. It is so incredible how crazy, hateful and untrue rhetoric has been normalized. My husband and I love reading your emails as well as watching your podcasts.
We keep trying to impeach the wrong guy. Impeach and convict the right guys. Thomas, Alito, Roberts. The probability of conviction is much higher if there is no party affiliation.
That is a tough task to impeach the Supreme Court Justices. Why dont we do both? Impeach Trump and the Corrupted Justices.
No president has ever been convicted because the threshold is too high and party loyalty prevents it. If you convict Trump, you are stuck with Vance. He's a lame duck after the midterm so he will be impotent. Better to remove the people that enabled this madness.
Unfortunately too many Rethuglicans won in school board elections here in Colorado. One of the worst is a school district in / or near Colorado Springs. But, then again, what can you expect from the city that is home to the Focus on the Family fiasco.
Your area is difficult as it is one of several ground zero locations where the AF Academy has been infiltrated by religious zealots trying to remake America into a theocracy. The Xtian Nationalists have been working hard for a while to build up the seed stock to start the theocratic putsch they seek.
They never expected a population of 320M that love their freedom of religion to be so responsive in a negative way to their wolf in sheep’s clothing attacks. More work still needed to restore our 1A freedoms as per our Constitution.
James Dobson is another person whose demise I didn't mourn.