As GOP lawmakers flee their own town halls, America finally sees the truth: tough-talking MAGA warriors turn tail when confronted by voters armed with facts, fury, and receipts.
Actually, IMHO these greedy SOBs want everyday people to become serfs! Work themselves to death! Maybe even have to dig their own grave in preparation for the dropping dead on the job! America is lawless! Anything goes but only for the MAGA sycophants, cronies and of course this upstanding criminal mob family described by Noam Chomsky as the most corrupt family in the world currently! Oh, and let me not forget Noam Chomsky's description of this psychopathic narcissist 'occupying' the American people's Whitehouse as the most dangerous man in the history of the world!
Personally I'm not sure I'd bet on that. Possibly some will, but we should always keep in mind that logic & facts have been tried on them before & defection (if any) has always been minimal. I'll go with Occam's Razor until/unless I see something closer to a real sea change moment.
Block the roads now. Too much is at risk to wait! Mobilize Blue state National Guards when threatened. Wait until then. The invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize their National Guards to resist an UNLAWFUL assault. The U.S. military should not accept UNLAWFUL orders. The sooner we get this over with, the better. This confrontation is coming. It is coming! We are stronger now than we will be tomorrow. The confrontation is not a battle or a war. It is a standoff at State borders. One state would be trying to invade another. One is the offender. The other, the defender. We know TACO.
Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly PREEMPTIVE strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? NO EXCUSE! Change your state Constitution. Pritzker. What are you doing?
I will say this it's hard to trust any leader Republicans and Democrats, for me I guess I just do fact checking and listening to their sales pitch who has the most farfetched agenda that they make promises to the Voters the American People. I use to make empty promises to my daughter and those empty promises had repercussions and she wouldn't believe anything I would say and didn't take me seriously. So I stopped and I only opened my mouth and would say and do things that I knew were not financially out of reach, that's what the individuals in office need to remember they work for the people, the people don't let the government tell them what they are gonna do without or without them.
The best way to know what their agenda is is to research who is actually writing the polices (playbook)
that they are campaigning with. Trump is following The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 to a tee. If you go to Project 2025 Tracker, you'll see what policy has been completed, in-process and not yet started. Once all of Project 2025 has been executed, The Heritage Foundation won't have a need for Trump. He is just their golden nugget.
This is no longer political. I have powerful opinions about political systems, but Trump is neither red nor blue. He's a sociopathic narcissist. He wants admiration, money, revenge, and to stay out of prison. That makes his actions a success in his view.
He is utterly uninterested in the rest. He dosen't care about tariffs or trade. He's not working, he's golfing. He's a dangerous clown, playing with more power than he ever thought possible. He will not hesitate to break the law. He is indifferent to the Constitution.
The legal cases aren't bothering him. He's bought the judges. The wars? HE DOSEN'T CARE. He will die but the damage is done. The trust is gone.
Sadly, Americans thought he was the buisnessman he played on TV. He's not. He's a career criminal and MAGA handed him their kingdom on a platter.
The curious takeaway is that it only took one determined fool to do it. It was a house of cards all along. We all watched Bush do it in 2002 (steal an election with the help of the court, and no, Iraq had NO weapons of mass destruction - my friend was part of the UN weapon's inspection team and they were thorough... there was nothing). Rebuilding something robust and just will require a different structure. The one in place is being smashed to pieces as we watch, helpless to stop it.
I'm a Canadian who watches the daily reports from Meidas and others with growing horror at what is going on in your country. Please allow me to make a suggestion... if your elected representatives won't stand and listen to you without running away and sneaking out back doors... take it to where they live! Demonstrate on the streets and sidewalks where they live in your districts. Don't let them get away with bowing and scraping and fawning over the idiot in the White House! That televised cabinet meeting the other day was absolutely cringeworthy! Get out and make those elected fools live in fear! Onward!
Nah...I think even the North Koreans might have been embarrassed by the Cabinet member's shameless display of knob polishing and taint licking. It was so blatant that I have wondered if the participants themselves, after that meeting, didn't have to run to a restroom and throw up. Could they even bear to look at themselves in the mirror? Certainly Twumpy's "sicko"-phants are amoral and shameless...but even they should have felt a few twinges at that nauseating performance.
I suspect we all need to check our state and/or local laws. As the Epstein scandal has made clear, we have a two-tiered legal system, and We the People are not favored.
I wish I had a chance to tell my Congress person what I thought. John James refuses to have town halls. I have called, written with no reply. We must resist!
If my Congress person would not respond to calls and letters, I would not vote for them again. They all have paid staff working in their offices. They are not THAT busy that they can't even give a short reply.
Such Horse Sh*t coming out of the member's of the Fascist Party's mouths...they should all RESIGN NOW!
Instead of owning up...they blame others that are not even involved. I doubt they even know what the truth is!
Demand their resignations...all of them...they haven't done anything FOR the people, For their constituents, or the country! They all have bent their knees to the Fascist Regime!
It seems that these elected officials have forgotten who elected them, who they actually work for and represent, and who pays their salaries. So for Bryan Steil to quickly blame Biden (who actually signed a bipartisan immigration bill that was written by republicans, but republicans then decided not to support it because their dictator wanted to run on the issue), is a bit “disingenuous” to say the least. Pesky details…And then his best retort is “they’ll just have to agree to disagree”?
Call me crazy but I think he’s misreading his audience.
Dear Merry- thank you for reminding us of the bipartisan bill for the immigration system last year which trump stopped because he wanted to continue his campaign built on hatred and divisive politics. I agree these cult congress members have forgotten the needs of their constituents but I don’t think Steil is merely misreading the room - I think he is ignoring the voters questions and hopefully he will be voted out! Along with the other traitors!! Thank you
Yes. Republicans have long known that they cannot win the presidency by popular vote which is why they focus on the EC instead and that also requires extreme gerrymandering. It’s a crazy system that definitely needs to be restructured.
IF the Republicans actually worked FOR the People and did things that BENEFITED THE PEOPLE they wouldn't have to lie, cheat or steal to win, people would actually vote for them. However, by dong the right thing they do not have the opportunity to rake in millions of dollars from Billionaires, special interest groups and do insider trading. You have have a soul and conscience to do the right thing....which they lack.
I don't believe they are worried about their salaries or the people who elected them, it's the bribes and the threat from Trump that they are most concerned about.
Unless you are in the top 10%, you actually do not have representation in Congress, no matter what the press releases say. Big business and Special Interests are their constituents, not us.
Absolutely agree. The fix is in and has been since Citizens United.
CITIZENS!!! What BS. This opened the door for big corporations to donate $billions in dark money, without any oversight or accountability. Politicians are bought for access. We’re an oligarchy now, rapidly becoming a fascist, authoritarian dictatorship, ushered in by a convicted felon, a deviant sexual predator, a psychopath.
I was at the Barry Moore town hall with Indivisible Baldwin County ... He was so badly shaken by us that he did indeed scurry like a cockroach out the backdoor 20 minutes early 😂😂😂😂
The Republicans are having to read a prepared script at these townhall meetings. They don't know how to explain to people that the food prices are not hurting everyone. And the prices for most everything has increased 30 plus percent. We are paying for Tariffs that hurt our allies around the world. Putin will never give up trying to reestablish the Soviet Union. As it is said Russia is a meat grinder and has a war economy fueled by gasoline, oil and help from tRUMP.
As a Canuck, observing from north of you all, I just friggin LOVE the grassroots outrage and vitriol displayed back at these pompous and arrogant politicians that have so underestimated their audience back home. Job well done, America, keep hammering home your messages. GET LOUD!!! Thanks Michael, for another fabulous article reporting on what's actually happening on the ground. Bravo! 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️
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Hi Jordan, how can we help from England? We too have our authoritarian fascists in waiting in Farage and his cult. Reform UK is following the Heritage Foundation's playbook closely. We urgently need the people of USA to overthrow Project 2025 and reclaim democracy. The rapid rise of fascism is a global transaction. How can we support you and get the dominoes falling?
Believe me, Stephen…I’m doing everything I can to stop this madness. I’d kinda hoped to be enjoying a relaxing retirement at this point in my life, but I guess that’s not meant to be. I’m hoping (praying) that millions will rise up over here in the coming months…it does feel like the anger is building by the day. All I can suggest as far as England is concerned is that you try to stop your version of fascism in its relative infancy…we clearly failed to do that and now we have an enormous constitutional crisis on our hands. Keep in touch. (traveled the world for business for decades and London was…and still is…literally my favorite city anywhere.)
Cheers Jordan, it's a battle but we have to fight it! We don't have Fox here but the Murdoch Empire is horribly influential, especially through GB 'News'. A glimmer of hope is that many Reform UK elected councillors are hopelessly poor at their job and there's usually a weekly cock-up! Good luck and steadfastness in your resistance.
We have been at war with Russia since the end world War 2. We have known this as children who had climb under our desks at school. Making deals with Putin always has been dangerous. All the republicans before tRUMP knew this until the tRUMP mobster entered politics.
✊ People are waking up to the fact that Drumpf and shady Vance lied to them to be e able to enact the fascist project 2025 .
Project 25 was the Republican So CALLED CHURCH THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION, That Church also placed J.D.VANCE as Trump's Vice President.
It's the DEVIL'S party, ?litered with pure evil.
Actually, IMHO these greedy SOBs want everyday people to become serfs! Work themselves to death! Maybe even have to dig their own grave in preparation for the dropping dead on the job! America is lawless! Anything goes but only for the MAGA sycophants, cronies and of course this upstanding criminal mob family described by Noam Chomsky as the most corrupt family in the world currently! Oh, and let me not forget Noam Chomsky's description of this psychopathic narcissist 'occupying' the American people's Whitehouse as the most dangerous man in the history of the world!
I agree!
202 225 3121 or 202 224 3121
Call any po💩Rethuglikkkrussian in house or senate!
I don’t understand a supposedly educated congress wanting to screw the constituents that they work for and pay their salaries! WTH!!
No nobel for a convicted felon or rapist.
https://www.nobelprize.org/contact
It will cheapen a prestigious award! Zelensky is more deserving! It will maybe help stroke him out.
They are not waking up to shit They are way too fucking stupid
It'll effect them and unfortunately that is when they will wake up and realize they've been duped into hating their fellow Americans.
Personally I'm not sure I'd bet on that. Possibly some will, but we should always keep in mind that logic & facts have been tried on them before & defection (if any) has always been minimal. I'll go with Occam's Razor until/unless I see something closer to a real sea change moment.
It's about damn time the voter's see the truth! Stop voting Rethuglicon! Vote BLUE People 💙
Block the roads now. Too much is at risk to wait! Mobilize Blue state National Guards when threatened. Wait until then. The invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize their National Guards to resist an UNLAWFUL assault. The U.S. military should not accept UNLAWFUL orders. The sooner we get this over with, the better. This confrontation is coming. It is coming! We are stronger now than we will be tomorrow. The confrontation is not a battle or a war. It is a standoff at State borders. One state would be trying to invade another. One is the offender. The other, the defender. We know TACO.
Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly PREEMPTIVE strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? NO EXCUSE! Change your state Constitution. Pritzker. What are you doing?
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs
"Rethuglicon" ... like it, Juliet! In the past, I've used "Repugnant-Con," but, considering the ICE raids (and more), yours works well, too.
ReThuglicans!
I will say this it's hard to trust any leader Republicans and Democrats, for me I guess I just do fact checking and listening to their sales pitch who has the most farfetched agenda that they make promises to the Voters the American People. I use to make empty promises to my daughter and those empty promises had repercussions and she wouldn't believe anything I would say and didn't take me seriously. So I stopped and I only opened my mouth and would say and do things that I knew were not financially out of reach, that's what the individuals in office need to remember they work for the people, the people don't let the government tell them what they are gonna do without or without them.
The best way to know what their agenda is is to research who is actually writing the polices (playbook)
that they are campaigning with. Trump is following The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 to a tee. If you go to Project 2025 Tracker, you'll see what policy has been completed, in-process and not yet started. Once all of Project 2025 has been executed, The Heritage Foundation won't have a need for Trump. He is just their golden nugget.
Their 'Useful Idiot', gone,in a year, Vance enthroned, Thiel holding the crown!
I never thought of that. Thanks for the insight. I'll be watching even closer.
Bothsideism is Putinesque, juvenile, and ludicrous.
The two parties are not the same. Wake up, grow up. Do your own adult research and stop shit -stirring. Blocked because stupidity.
This is no longer political. I have powerful opinions about political systems, but Trump is neither red nor blue. He's a sociopathic narcissist. He wants admiration, money, revenge, and to stay out of prison. That makes his actions a success in his view.
He is utterly uninterested in the rest. He dosen't care about tariffs or trade. He's not working, he's golfing. He's a dangerous clown, playing with more power than he ever thought possible. He will not hesitate to break the law. He is indifferent to the Constitution.
The legal cases aren't bothering him. He's bought the judges. The wars? HE DOSEN'T CARE. He will die but the damage is done. The trust is gone.
Sadly, Americans thought he was the buisnessman he played on TV. He's not. He's a career criminal and MAGA handed him their kingdom on a platter.
The curious takeaway is that it only took one determined fool to do it. It was a house of cards all along. We all watched Bush do it in 2002 (steal an election with the help of the court, and no, Iraq had NO weapons of mass destruction - my friend was part of the UN weapon's inspection team and they were thorough... there was nothing). Rebuilding something robust and just will require a different structure. The one in place is being smashed to pieces as we watch, helpless to stop it.
Lets not be helpless again.
Dear American Friends,
I'm a Canadian who watches the daily reports from Meidas and others with growing horror at what is going on in your country. Please allow me to make a suggestion... if your elected representatives won't stand and listen to you without running away and sneaking out back doors... take it to where they live! Demonstrate on the streets and sidewalks where they live in your districts. Don't let them get away with bowing and scraping and fawning over the idiot in the White House! That televised cabinet meeting the other day was absolutely cringeworthy! Get out and make those elected fools live in fear! Onward!
It was horrible. It looked exactly like what I imagine a North Korean “cabinet” meeting would look like.
Nah...I think even the North Koreans might have been embarrassed by the Cabinet member's shameless display of knob polishing and taint licking. It was so blatant that I have wondered if the participants themselves, after that meeting, didn't have to run to a restroom and throw up. Could they even bear to look at themselves in the mirror? Certainly Twumpy's "sicko"-phants are amoral and shameless...but even they should have felt a few twinges at that nauseating performance.
I like it!
I suspect we all need to check our state and/or local laws. As the Epstein scandal has made clear, we have a two-tiered legal system, and We the People are not favored.
💯 % agree
I wish I had a chance to tell my Congress person what I thought. John James refuses to have town halls. I have called, written with no reply. We must resist!
If my Congress person would not respond to calls and letters, I would not vote for them again. They all have paid staff working in their offices. They are not THAT busy that they can't even give a short reply.
I always get replies from my CA Senators Padilla and Schiff and my Representative Carbajal. Every single time I write. They are Democrats.
Maybe you could organize a protest, a sit in, outside their office? Just a thought, no pressure. Keep calling them, leave long voice-mails.
You can request an in person meeting them at their office. My representative has that option, and will have his staff call to schedule a meeting.
Same. Eli Crane never shows up here. He’s just a rubber stamp, a bootlicker, and spews BS talking points.
Such Horse Sh*t coming out of the member's of the Fascist Party's mouths...they should all RESIGN NOW!
Instead of owning up...they blame others that are not even involved. I doubt they even know what the truth is!
Demand their resignations...all of them...they haven't done anything FOR the people, For their constituents, or the country! They all have bent their knees to the Fascist Regime!
Exactly! This was my response to this post -
It seems that these elected officials have forgotten who elected them, who they actually work for and represent, and who pays their salaries. So for Bryan Steil to quickly blame Biden (who actually signed a bipartisan immigration bill that was written by republicans, but republicans then decided not to support it because their dictator wanted to run on the issue), is a bit “disingenuous” to say the least. Pesky details…And then his best retort is “they’ll just have to agree to disagree”?
Call me crazy but I think he’s misreading his audience.
Dear Merry- thank you for reminding us of the bipartisan bill for the immigration system last year which trump stopped because he wanted to continue his campaign built on hatred and divisive politics. I agree these cult congress members have forgotten the needs of their constituents but I don’t think Steil is merely misreading the room - I think he is ignoring the voters questions and hopefully he will be voted out! Along with the other traitors!! Thank you
They haven't forgotten who elected them that is why they are gerrymandering the states. They know they don't have a fat chance in hell of winning.
Yes. Republicans have long known that they cannot win the presidency by popular vote which is why they focus on the EC instead and that also requires extreme gerrymandering. It’s a crazy system that definitely needs to be restructured.
IF the Republicans actually worked FOR the People and did things that BENEFITED THE PEOPLE they wouldn't have to lie, cheat or steal to win, people would actually vote for them. However, by dong the right thing they do not have the opportunity to rake in millions of dollars from Billionaires, special interest groups and do insider trading. You have have a soul and conscience to do the right thing....which they lack.
Yes, greed and power now override everything else. Integrity, values, service are relics of the past, particularly in the trump administration.
Basically politicians are now lobbyists for special interests.
How much money does Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, receive in subsidies from the US coffers?
“ Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments.”
Washington Post
I don't believe they are worried about their salaries or the people who elected them, it's the bribes and the threat from Trump that they are most concerned about.
Unless you are in the top 10%, you actually do not have representation in Congress, no matter what the press releases say. Big business and Special Interests are their constituents, not us.
Absolutely agree. The fix is in and has been since Citizens United.
CITIZENS!!! What BS. This opened the door for big corporations to donate $billions in dark money, without any oversight or accountability. Politicians are bought for access. We’re an oligarchy now, rapidly becoming a fascist, authoritarian dictatorship, ushered in by a convicted felon, a deviant sexual predator, a psychopath.
I was at the Barry Moore town hall with Indivisible Baldwin County ... He was so badly shaken by us that he did indeed scurry like a cockroach out the backdoor 20 minutes early 😂😂😂😂
The Republicans are having to read a prepared script at these townhall meetings. They don't know how to explain to people that the food prices are not hurting everyone. And the prices for most everything has increased 30 plus percent. We are paying for Tariffs that hurt our allies around the world. Putin will never give up trying to reestablish the Soviet Union. As it is said Russia is a meat grinder and has a war economy fueled by gasoline, oil and help from tRUMP.
As a Canuck, observing from north of you all, I just friggin LOVE the grassroots outrage and vitriol displayed back at these pompous and arrogant politicians that have so underestimated their audience back home. Job well done, America, keep hammering home your messages. GET LOUD!!! Thanks Michael, for another fabulous article reporting on what's actually happening on the ground. Bravo! 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️
GET LOUD -- and STAY LOUD!
Two asks of readers of Substacks like these. 1) Pay for a subscription if and when you can. The voices of opposition (like Michael Cohen and others) have mortgages to pay just like the rest of us. 2) Please don't limit your engagement to reading and commenting. We need millions of people not only protesting but ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING in the electoral process. Join any of the countless organizations that organize these efforts and chip in with your time, effort and/or contributions..
Done and done Jordan. My thoughts exactly
Hi Jordan, how can we help from England? We too have our authoritarian fascists in waiting in Farage and his cult. Reform UK is following the Heritage Foundation's playbook closely. We urgently need the people of USA to overthrow Project 2025 and reclaim democracy. The rapid rise of fascism is a global transaction. How can we support you and get the dominoes falling?
Believe me, Stephen…I’m doing everything I can to stop this madness. I’d kinda hoped to be enjoying a relaxing retirement at this point in my life, but I guess that’s not meant to be. I’m hoping (praying) that millions will rise up over here in the coming months…it does feel like the anger is building by the day. All I can suggest as far as England is concerned is that you try to stop your version of fascism in its relative infancy…we clearly failed to do that and now we have an enormous constitutional crisis on our hands. Keep in touch. (traveled the world for business for decades and London was…and still is…literally my favorite city anywhere.)
Cheers Jordan, it's a battle but we have to fight it! We don't have Fox here but the Murdoch Empire is horribly influential, especially through GB 'News'. A glimmer of hope is that many Reform UK elected councillors are hopelessly poor at their job and there's usually a weekly cock-up! Good luck and steadfastness in your resistance.
They are spineless cowards.
MAGA/gop are fascists. Plain and simple.
This is one of your BEST EVER! I agree with Miss Castille-Cooke! STOP VOTING RETUGLICON and VOTE BLUE! Thanks for making my day!!!
No town halls from Indiana senators or my representative
It’s because they are MAJOR COWARDS Mary. And that little pissant Jim Banks is amongst the worst!
I truly believe that Americans had to go through this experience. If only to get their heads out of Hollywood & wtfu✊🏿✍️🏿🎓
We have been at war with Russia since the end world War 2. We have known this as children who had climb under our desks at school. Making deals with Putin always has been dangerous. All the republicans before tRUMP knew this until the tRUMP mobster entered politics.
As always Michael, great article. You have a way of seeing through all the BS and relaying it bluntly. I appreciate that.