If people couldn’t see thru Trump before they are definitely blind and deaf…It’s truly sickening how he used Musk to do his bidding and innocent lives have been lost due to this brutal way of downsizing our government in order for him to have control…Families in Texas should sue Trump for the lost of their loved ones in a flood that no one was forewarned about in time for them to evacuate….
I agree. I think Trump aims to dismantle FEMA and gain total control of who gets federal emergency assistance of course to advance his political agenda. SUE NOW AND DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN!!!
It’s frustrating hearing Americans who should’ve seen through Trump 10 years ago, are finally waking up, however…. I do give them credit for being able to admit they were wrong. I suppose I’m treating it a bit like I would someone sobering up from a drug addiction. As propaganda has been proven to have addictive components.
I give the younger ones a pass more so than middle aged maga. As a fellow GexXr, voters over 40 were lucky to grow up in a generation with more rights than any generation before and now after us. GenX should be the first to recognize this, and want their own children to be able to have just as many rights if not more. But younger Trump voters don’t remember a political environment without Trump. They don’t realize how “normal” it was. That no matter who ran the government it mostly hummed along in the background like a well oiled machine. Yes certain policies would throw a wrench in things, but at least both parties respected our constitution, and would never actually cross the line to strip constitutional rights, let alone, arrest citizens and build concentration camps.
Then Trump came along, took over the RNC, kicked out the constitutional conservatives and replaced them with psychopaths who don’t actually care about anything more than they do acquiring power at any cost. And they’re the least intelligence psychopaths. That’s the worst part. These people are psychopaths AND dumb. When I say psychopath, I mean people who only derive pleasure from the suffering of other people. The last people who should ever be responsible for millions of people.
So when I hear a younger Trump supporter has the courage to admit they made a mistake, I respect their ability to learn from mistakes. Honestly, I think someone who finds out that they’ve been conned will be a very useful ally of ours in fighting this regime.
These “podcast bros” are grown ass men. If I was their sister and I walked in on them talking like this I’d ask “where has your common sense and cognitive sense gone”?
Their rhetoric not only exposes Trumps lying it exposes their gullibility for believing him in the first place. When you spew his lies, YOU become the liar.
They are too old to be acting like a bunch of frat bros talking about the college president unaware that they swallowed the lie. Do some fact based research. Watching you, I am embarrassed of and for you
We the people are not your enemy. It is time to flip the script and work together to reclaim our country.
Do you mean toe the line? That’s what they have been doing and why their obedience to djt has gotten them where they are now. I would rather have them or anyone do their homework, think critically about what they are saying, and make choices for the betterment of humanity.
Dictatorships Have One Thing in Common Lack of Empathy
Hopefully we can all agree that what Herr Homan, head of the Brown Shirts(Hitler’s paramilitary in contrast to the Gestapo which was Hitler’s secret police ie Kash Patel’s agency), is despicable, illegal, and reprehensible Herr Homan says he’s getting rid of the "worst of the worst" which is hardly the case Herr Miller who is part of the Gestapo has set a quota of prisoners the Herr Homan must achieve by whatever means
Today a DACA recipient was abducted by the Brown Shirts and taken off to a concentration camp Weeks ago a naturalized child citizen was sent out of the country
It’s getting closer folks First it was undocumented immigrants Now it’s legal citizens who are naturalized by birthright(Cheeto wants to end birthright citizenship and SCOTUS has essentially ruled against him)
WE the People should be appalled at what’s happening in our streets This is NOT who WE are as Americans and WE should never tolerate what is happening in our country
Getting rid of the "worst of the worst" is hardly the case No civil rights for immigrants Lack of empathy? You bet Should we care? Absolutely!!
As Pastor Niemuller wrote (https://bit.ly/3ImpTch) he indirectly condemns complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets.
If you don't like what's happening to your fellow human beings, our immigrants then PROTEST locally and make your voice heard
I'm concerned about the lack of oversite of the concentration centers. Why can't Democrat congress leaders use the Military or the Marshall's to protect them from the SS ICE guards when they,Congress members, do their oversite indpections?
Now apparently US corn is being rejected also, and buyers have shifted to Canadian corn.
Canadian corn is seen to be healthier, and traceable (very important in today's economies). Buyers are paying a premium for Canadian corn.
US farmers are hurting.
Trump did this to them.
He started an economic war against the world, using tariffs that hurt the people of the US, as the US buyers pay the tariffs.
That "ooh we have all this tariffs revenue"?
That's the sound of money being taken out of US pockets, using a regressive sales tax/tariff.
This is part of take from the poor to give to the rich.
Reverse Robin Hood.
So US farmers have no market.
USAID no longer buys the excess to export (they are burning it, I'm told).
And US people are burdened paying the tariffs.
Charging 30% on imports from Mexico and 35% on imports from Canada (or for both higher if it's in the target products) is like building a turret with weapons that fire on US people.
The Continuing Resolution is a healthcare travesty on the least of our citizens. We exclude the poor and the marginalized from access. Did I say the marginalized? Who has marginalized in a free democracy and the wealthiest country in the world? Why are they marginalized. Racism kills, both fast and slow. Health Inequity https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity
Yesterday, there was no prediction of more rain. I couldn't prepare for what is happening outside right now. It is still pouring and will probably be all day.
Luckily the ducks and geese can swim, because that is what they are doing right now and very happy whereas the chickens are beyond miserable and I might lose a few. The dog has been holding her pee now for 16 hours. She is refusing to go outside.
Luckily Midnight has been smart enough to stay in the garage.
Dozens of people are dead and dozens are missing in the floods just west of us.
I used to marvel at the accuracy of weather prediction here in Texas and suddenly... they seem to never get it right.
This is because of Trump and DOGE that cut the weather service to a point where there could be no accurate weather prediction. I can attest, this was not at all predicted. These problems were however predicted by every weather scientist out there. And, they also cut FEMA.
Texas is a republican state. Maybe THIS will convince some of the folks out in the countryside that they made a horrible mistake and get them to vote differently next time.
My husband just reminded me how it was such a short time ago that I was not believing that NOAA could accurately predict the weather a month out as it had and that weather prediction could be as accurate as it had been therefore it was proof that they were manipulating the weather.
I have been proven wrong and it was just supreme scientific ability. Now that they have fired all the smart people and gutted NOAA, not let me be prepared for this storm and have killed so many Texans because they were not evacuated, I have been humbled and am now begging for the return of excellence.
On July 7th I posted:
I've been thinking that these flash floods here are in a way symbolic. They were due to Trump's cutting funding to give the rich more. Don't believe any lies that things wouldn't have been better if our top weather scientists weren't fired and FEMA not gutted.
The floods have increased the feeling of being swept away by a massive force, one our government is supposed to be able to warn about, protect us from and help us to recover from.
As horrible as the plight of the christian white girls in that camp and people living in the white Republican countryside of Texas were, right now, a great many more children and good people that are not Republicans or white are being swept off the streets like that river swept the girls and being taken to a watery swamp where they are getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and getting sick and waiting to be sent to places of torture and death.
The animals dying in those floods are nothing compared to what is going to happen to the animals in the public lands that are being sold off to make the rich richer with oil.
The river overflowing was faster and more obvious and therefore a good symbol of the bigger flood that is now enveloping my country.
If you think over 80 deaths is bad here in the flooding, wait until a category 3 or above hurricane hits somewhere. NOAA cuts are likely to have an even higher death toll soon. If a category 4 or 5 hits without accurate prediction of movement and without FEMA - I don't even want to think about how bad it could be. I lived in Florida through 4 hurricanes and that's why I left to come to Austin. It was only the excellent predictions that enabled people to get out in time. Even a little less time could mean people being stuck in cars trying to escape, which is the worst place to be in a hurricane.
This event in Texas should be considered a warning about all possible weather events in the future across America.
NONE of us are safe with this administration. Not one.
I kept on saying in groups that I didn't get a call and got laughed at and called names. I can't really blame Abbot because the system used to work almost magically! I looked up if Kerr had the same 911 system and THEY DID! Just like in Travis it got broken under the administration. With safety so close away if even ONE person had gotten a phone call they could have gotten people to safety, just like I could have opened the gate for my animals.
If I were one of those parents I would be screaming at the administration and demanding that Noem be removed immediately. I would want to know the truth!
You have a point there, I just have no clue what he could have done as Plan B. I certainly didn't know that the system no longer worked and perhaps no one did until it became necessary. Also, focusing on Abbot takes away the fact that this was a wake up call not only for all of Texas that depends on the system that used to be in place before the cuts, but also the problems that could come to pass during hurricane season without an important satellite - all problems that need to be addressed at the federal level or we could have disasters that make the floods in Texas seem insignificant in comparison. A large category hurricane without the proper evaluations and communications and warnings and evacuations and without FEMA could mean thousands dead. The buck on this one I think really stops at Trump.
If you don't even know that you no longer have plan A it's a bit hard to plan for plan B.
Now we know that plan A has been wiped out by Trump, Musk and last but not least Noem.
What was Abbot's response? While people were dying and with great suffering, he started redistricting to try to save the Republicans and himself from the real possibility of people voting them all out as a result of this.
Don't get me wrong, Abbot should be voted out if for nothing more than doing that alone, it's just that I really truly believe that if it weren't for the federal cuts a whole lot of people would still be alive and I don't want anyone in my state or any other state to forget that.
At the very least, Noem needs to resign. FEMA 3 days later ... despicable.
Republicans may be human, but they're not humane. Research reveals why fear, rigidity, and cruelty lie at the heart of conservative psychology.
Understanding how millions came to embrace a twisted, grievance-soaked, compassion-starved ideology isn’t just an academic exercise. It’s a civic obligation. Because ignoring the psychology, biology, and social machinery behind this crisis won’t make it go away.
It will make it worse.
Through brain scans, twin studies, behavioral experiments, personality inventories, and meta-analyses, we’ve built an empirically grounded profile of the modern conservative. What we’ve uncovered is not flattering. But it is consistent. Across every method of inquiry, a pattern emerges—predictable, persistent, and dangerous.
Trump and Noem murdered hundreds of people in Texas and someone needs to file a lawsuit.
Thanks for sharing
If people couldn’t see thru Trump before they are definitely blind and deaf…It’s truly sickening how he used Musk to do his bidding and innocent lives have been lost due to this brutal way of downsizing our government in order for him to have control…Families in Texas should sue Trump for the lost of their loved ones in a flood that no one was forewarned about in time for them to evacuate….
They should! Agree totally 👍 and restore the FEMA, NOAA and Internet funding Now!!!!!!!
I agree. I think Trump aims to dismantle FEMA and gain total control of who gets federal emergency assistance of course to advance his political agenda. SUE NOW AND DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN!!!
It’s frustrating hearing Americans who should’ve seen through Trump 10 years ago, are finally waking up, however…. I do give them credit for being able to admit they were wrong. I suppose I’m treating it a bit like I would someone sobering up from a drug addiction. As propaganda has been proven to have addictive components.
I give the younger ones a pass more so than middle aged maga. As a fellow GexXr, voters over 40 were lucky to grow up in a generation with more rights than any generation before and now after us. GenX should be the first to recognize this, and want their own children to be able to have just as many rights if not more. But younger Trump voters don’t remember a political environment without Trump. They don’t realize how “normal” it was. That no matter who ran the government it mostly hummed along in the background like a well oiled machine. Yes certain policies would throw a wrench in things, but at least both parties respected our constitution, and would never actually cross the line to strip constitutional rights, let alone, arrest citizens and build concentration camps.
Then Trump came along, took over the RNC, kicked out the constitutional conservatives and replaced them with psychopaths who don’t actually care about anything more than they do acquiring power at any cost. And they’re the least intelligence psychopaths. That’s the worst part. These people are psychopaths AND dumb. When I say psychopath, I mean people who only derive pleasure from the suffering of other people. The last people who should ever be responsible for millions of people.
So when I hear a younger Trump supporter has the courage to admit they made a mistake, I respect their ability to learn from mistakes. Honestly, I think someone who finds out that they’ve been conned will be a very useful ally of ours in fighting this regime.
They’re pissed off! 😡
If theycan get past the cult brainwashing
These “podcast bros” are grown ass men. If I was their sister and I walked in on them talking like this I’d ask “where has your common sense and cognitive sense gone”?
Their rhetoric not only exposes Trumps lying it exposes their gullibility for believing him in the first place. When you spew his lies, YOU become the liar.
They are too old to be acting like a bunch of frat bros talking about the college president unaware that they swallowed the lie. Do some fact based research. Watching you, I am embarrassed of and for you
We the people are not your enemy. It is time to flip the script and work together to reclaim our country.
Do you mean toe the line? That’s what they have been doing and why their obedience to djt has gotten them where they are now. I would rather have them or anyone do their homework, think critically about what they are saying, and make choices for the betterment of humanity.
Dictatorships Have One Thing in Common Lack of Empathy
Hopefully we can all agree that what Herr Homan, head of the Brown Shirts(Hitler’s paramilitary in contrast to the Gestapo which was Hitler’s secret police ie Kash Patel’s agency), is despicable, illegal, and reprehensible Herr Homan says he’s getting rid of the "worst of the worst" which is hardly the case Herr Miller who is part of the Gestapo has set a quota of prisoners the Herr Homan must achieve by whatever means
Today a DACA recipient was abducted by the Brown Shirts and taken off to a concentration camp Weeks ago a naturalized child citizen was sent out of the country
It’s getting closer folks First it was undocumented immigrants Now it’s legal citizens who are naturalized by birthright(Cheeto wants to end birthright citizenship and SCOTUS has essentially ruled against him)
WE the People should be appalled at what’s happening in our streets This is NOT who WE are as Americans and WE should never tolerate what is happening in our country
Getting rid of the "worst of the worst" is hardly the case No civil rights for immigrants Lack of empathy? You bet Should we care? Absolutely!!
As Pastor Niemuller wrote (https://bit.ly/3ImpTch) he indirectly condemns complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets.
If you don't like what's happening to your fellow human beings, our immigrants then PROTEST locally and make your voice heard
Am going to a Good Trouble event on 7/17!
I'm concerned about the lack of oversite of the concentration centers. Why can't Democrat congress leaders use the Military or the Marshall's to protect them from the SS ICE guards when they,Congress members, do their oversite indpections?
More like SS concentration camp guards! What's next gas chambers and ovens?😬😬😬🤢🤮
I will say it until everyone gets it.
Trump is not arresting criminals he is gathering body counts for his kickbacks at these private prisons
He is wanting the criminals to build his own militia! He wants more human weapons than on J6
On the topic of international trade and export income for the US,
the uncertain pricing (tariffs affect potash thus wheat)
plus the uncertain scheduling (US wants to send full, not partial, ships)
has led to a drop in wheat exports as countries turn to Canada for the wheat.
US farmers are literally setting fire to their wheat crops.
By the way, Canada also apparently has better data management on the source of wheat shipments, and international customers love that.
Beef sales are also affected. Former foreign customers in the Pacific now buy from Australia.
The tariffs are not only a regressive sales tax (hurting the most vulnerable/disadvantaged) they are causing losses in international trade which
(1) reduces US GDP and
(2) increases the deficit.
This approach to tariffs is like putting a loaded gun against one's head and the audience taking a vote on who gets to pull the trigger
So is the job market. People are afraid to hire because they don't know how to budget!
Now apparently US corn is being rejected also, and buyers have shifted to Canadian corn.
Canadian corn is seen to be healthier, and traceable (very important in today's economies). Buyers are paying a premium for Canadian corn.
US farmers are hurting.
Trump did this to them.
He started an economic war against the world, using tariffs that hurt the people of the US, as the US buyers pay the tariffs.
That "ooh we have all this tariffs revenue"?
That's the sound of money being taken out of US pockets, using a regressive sales tax/tariff.
This is part of take from the poor to give to the rich.
Reverse Robin Hood.
So US farmers have no market.
USAID no longer buys the excess to export (they are burning it, I'm told).
And US people are burdened paying the tariffs.
Charging 30% on imports from Mexico and 35% on imports from Canada (or for both higher if it's in the target products) is like building a turret with weapons that fire on US people.
This is insane.
the longer this regime goes on are the 4-6 supremes beginning to woder who they are helping?
a 22 yo in charge ?
I don’t like to watch or listen to the podcast, but I sure love it when I can read the transcripts!
We currently have the most unqualified President and Cabinet in the history of the US. That's scary!
The Continuing Resolution is a healthcare travesty on the least of our citizens. We exclude the poor and the marginalized from access. Did I say the marginalized? Who has marginalized in a free democracy and the wealthiest country in the world? Why are they marginalized. Racism kills, both fast and slow. Health Inequity https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity
Just gotta say, Jordy, your facial expressions are classic, just love it!
This is what I posted on my FB page on July 5th.
My yard is flooded.
I can't get to the chickens in the back area.
Yesterday, there was no prediction of more rain. I couldn't prepare for what is happening outside right now. It is still pouring and will probably be all day.
Luckily the ducks and geese can swim, because that is what they are doing right now and very happy whereas the chickens are beyond miserable and I might lose a few. The dog has been holding her pee now for 16 hours. She is refusing to go outside.
Luckily Midnight has been smart enough to stay in the garage.
Dozens of people are dead and dozens are missing in the floods just west of us.
I used to marvel at the accuracy of weather prediction here in Texas and suddenly... they seem to never get it right.
This is because of Trump and DOGE that cut the weather service to a point where there could be no accurate weather prediction. I can attest, this was not at all predicted. These problems were however predicted by every weather scientist out there. And, they also cut FEMA.
Texas is a republican state. Maybe THIS will convince some of the folks out in the countryside that they made a horrible mistake and get them to vote differently next time.
My husband just reminded me how it was such a short time ago that I was not believing that NOAA could accurately predict the weather a month out as it had and that weather prediction could be as accurate as it had been therefore it was proof that they were manipulating the weather.
I have been proven wrong and it was just supreme scientific ability. Now that they have fired all the smart people and gutted NOAA, not let me be prepared for this storm and have killed so many Texans because they were not evacuated, I have been humbled and am now begging for the return of excellence.
On July 7th I posted:
I've been thinking that these flash floods here are in a way symbolic. They were due to Trump's cutting funding to give the rich more. Don't believe any lies that things wouldn't have been better if our top weather scientists weren't fired and FEMA not gutted.
The floods have increased the feeling of being swept away by a massive force, one our government is supposed to be able to warn about, protect us from and help us to recover from.
As horrible as the plight of the christian white girls in that camp and people living in the white Republican countryside of Texas were, right now, a great many more children and good people that are not Republicans or white are being swept off the streets like that river swept the girls and being taken to a watery swamp where they are getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and getting sick and waiting to be sent to places of torture and death.
The animals dying in those floods are nothing compared to what is going to happen to the animals in the public lands that are being sold off to make the rich richer with oil.
The river overflowing was faster and more obvious and therefore a good symbol of the bigger flood that is now enveloping my country.
If you think over 80 deaths is bad here in the flooding, wait until a category 3 or above hurricane hits somewhere. NOAA cuts are likely to have an even higher death toll soon. If a category 4 or 5 hits without accurate prediction of movement and without FEMA - I don't even want to think about how bad it could be. I lived in Florida through 4 hurricanes and that's why I left to come to Austin. It was only the excellent predictions that enabled people to get out in time. Even a little less time could mean people being stuck in cars trying to escape, which is the worst place to be in a hurricane.
This event in Texas should be considered a warning about all possible weather events in the future across America.
NONE of us are safe with this administration. Not one.
I kept on saying in groups that I didn't get a call and got laughed at and called names. I can't really blame Abbot because the system used to work almost magically! I looked up if Kerr had the same 911 system and THEY DID! Just like in Travis it got broken under the administration. With safety so close away if even ONE person had gotten a phone call they could have gotten people to safety, just like I could have opened the gate for my animals.
If I were one of those parents I would be screaming at the administration and demanding that Noem be removed immediately. I would want to know the truth!
You have a point there, I just have no clue what he could have done as Plan B. I certainly didn't know that the system no longer worked and perhaps no one did until it became necessary. Also, focusing on Abbot takes away the fact that this was a wake up call not only for all of Texas that depends on the system that used to be in place before the cuts, but also the problems that could come to pass during hurricane season without an important satellite - all problems that need to be addressed at the federal level or we could have disasters that make the floods in Texas seem insignificant in comparison. A large category hurricane without the proper evaluations and communications and warnings and evacuations and without FEMA could mean thousands dead. The buck on this one I think really stops at Trump.
If you don't even know that you no longer have plan A it's a bit hard to plan for plan B.
Now we know that plan A has been wiped out by Trump, Musk and last but not least Noem.
What was Abbot's response? While people were dying and with great suffering, he started redistricting to try to save the Republicans and himself from the real possibility of people voting them all out as a result of this.
Don't get me wrong, Abbot should be voted out if for nothing more than doing that alone, it's just that I really truly believe that if it weren't for the federal cuts a whole lot of people would still be alive and I don't want anyone in my state or any other state to forget that.
At the very least, Noem needs to resign. FEMA 3 days later ... despicable.
Rubio is another jerk
Republicans may be human, but they're not humane. Research reveals why fear, rigidity, and cruelty lie at the heart of conservative psychology.
Understanding how millions came to embrace a twisted, grievance-soaked, compassion-starved ideology isn’t just an academic exercise. It’s a civic obligation. Because ignoring the psychology, biology, and social machinery behind this crisis won’t make it go away.
It will make it worse.
Through brain scans, twin studies, behavioral experiments, personality inventories, and meta-analyses, we’ve built an empirically grounded profile of the modern conservative. What we’ve uncovered is not flattering. But it is consistent. Across every method of inquiry, a pattern emerges—predictable, persistent, and dangerous.
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