The administration should've proven to you already that he doesn't care about anything but power. People are very expendable when you seek absolute power and you've elected a complete criminal. Criminals always want to stay out of jail, don't they? What's worse is the narrative has bought the very people who were elected to work for and protect you and they are allowing you to fall as a country. Makes me wonder what he knows about his own power, what dirt could you have to sell your own self out? I don't get it either
usually likes oil grafts with his mass-murder serving!
Hoping he felt a sting as Iran stung back! At the same time we're feeling terrible from the deaths and destruction our evil Potus Hitler wannabe causes!
Oh, I fully believe he wants Canada most of all! I honestly don't sleep well much these days with Hitler 2.0 trying to do it again. It's an accurate thing to call him
They believe him to be “gate-keeper” of the apocalypse so we can all experience disease, poverty and war. You notice that members of Trump cabinet telling the rest of us to not to complain about our suffering due to their malfeasance.
lol Yeah, all those evangelicals will be so happy when they discover they will stay on this planet - what they don't understand is the planet will be untenable. :(
Yep, ICE and Border Patrol, the tough guys who kill innocent people, who shove women to the ground, who drag old men out into the cold in their underwear, who leave blind people five miles from their home.
Yes, let these tough guys be the feet on the ground. Let's see how tough they are!
38% is the hard-core MAGAS who can never be anything but blindly loyal to their leader. They would drink the poison Kool-Aid if told to do so. They are easily gaslighted.
We have to work on how society has created this brainwashed cult. As long as the culture of hate, ignorance, racial superiority, religious bigotry, and anti-democratic authoritarianism is in sufficient numbers, we will continue to fail mightily. We have to fix it!
Cruelty is the point. And MAGA cult does not care. They have been indoctrinated to hate, to demean, degrade the "other." They rejoice cruelty. They don't care about lies or Trump's incompetency or that he could care a fig about them, they support him NO matter what!
It is a cult, and cults are dangerous. They are just too ignorant to be swayed by reality... That's why you will trigger them if you wear these kinds of shirts in public 👇
I think 38% is an overestimate. I think it more like 20% but that one fifth is amplified by foreign powers and bots. Still, it is a cult, and they are dangerous.
Ind's polling on 20-29 bracket now, following their trending, will reach teens by mid-terms! This is a good forecast for Dem's&Rep's as well! Let's stick together people! After election real work will begin!
Yes, and many of them will be less likely to vote since they have had their faith dented by at least one of either Epstein, war etc. lies while Ice, war etc. will bring more younger voters, independents etc. that wouldn't be voting!!
Could be the Pope has some influence with all Catholics. Here's hoping Catholic priests and bishops quit telling their congregations that they'll go to Hell if they vote democratic (because of pro-choice). That would be a nice change. (The Bishop where I use to go to church was fired by the Pope in '23.)
Thank you for sharing. Not for the easily offended. but a riot for those of us who not only do not mind, but appreciate him. Here it is. https://tinyurl.com/4r3hpb8z
I’m not a fan of that kind of language in public spaces but I 100% agree with what Carville is saying. It is what I mumble to myself while reading the news these days. One of many day dreams I have is the sick evil mean monster he is referring to in the wrestling ring at the WH with Carville, frail as he looks. Carville with his intelligence and the deep anger many of us share would make mincemeat of that lying tub of lard who might then have many real bone spurs. Sadly, just a fantasy. I was appalled at all the death caused by Bush 2, now a little painter who says nothing. These days I am horrified at the joy our current sack of 💩 awful prez takes at causing death and mayhem everywhere. He harms everyone. The needs of Americans and others mean nothing to him. When will this end?
He could be a skinny as a rail, he could be tall and handsome, he could be well built. What he can never be is an honest, good hearted person. He is only the
shell of a human. He can pretend like he is superman or whoever was depicted in his silly cards; but, in the end he is just a lonely old man who is taking his misery out on the rest of the world.
His psychosis and feelings of exclusion and inadequacy only deepen with age, dementia an failure. Immunity and the power to pardon; the powers to coerce by medial control and control of the DOJ and FBI; and the ability to declare war with no checks pretty much make him untouchable. We have to ensure that there is an endgame worth having when he finally takes his leave
All he had to do this 2nd term was to focus on bringing prices down and to stay out of war. That's it. And he'd probably easily remain in office. But no............ too tempting to grift beyond all belief while looking for the ugliest, most brutal and expensive ways to demonstrate how powerful he is.
No, that's not it. Republican policies cannot bring prices down. Period. And there's the Epstein files. (My congresswoman wears a "release the files" button while she's talking about the Iran or ICE or the economy — just to keep it in people's minds.) But he could've avoided the war.
On August 8, 2019, "Two days before his death [on August 10, 2019], Epstein made Kahn a co-executor of his estate, along with Darren Indyke, Epstein's former attorney. Both are named as beneficiaries of Epstein's estate." Houston Public Media; 11-Mar-26; https://tinyurl.com/3ec3sbt9. In his amended trust (https://tinyurl.com/4c4tkr9v), Epstein gave to Kahn ($25M) and Indyke ($50M) bequests (after-death gifts); Trust Section 2.3.
Many others also received specific bequests (gifts), including Ghislaine Maxwell ($10M) and others had loans forgiven. Some names are shown; others are redacted. The amounts are quite large. Kahn and Indyke also were granted compensation after expenses of $250K per year for their services as Trustees. (Trust Section 5.2).
A very large sum of money was intended for Karyna Shuliak Epstein's last partner and main heiress. According to Le Monde (22-Mar-26) "According to that document, Shuliak was supposed to inherit $100 million (€85 million) and the criminal's properties: his Manhattan townhouse, his apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris, his private islands, his ranch in New Mexico, as well as a 32-carat ring purchased for $1.2 million. Despite this lavish inheritance, the 36-year-old, who currently lives in New York, will not see a penny, as American and French authorities have decided to freeze the estate to allocate it to a victims' compensation fund." https://tinyurl.com/4vm7hnvn
The efforts to defeat it are many (and this list is not complete) and must be stopped each time an advance is made largely, but not entirely, until the SAVE/Jim Crow Act:
• Removing qualified voters from rent rolls
• Preventing qualified voters from voting at polls, including DHS intimidation
• Preventing rural and other challenged voters from voting remotely (by mail)
• Making the registration process excessively challenging
• Preventing voting due to inability to present specifically required identity proof
• Substituting state legislators for designated ones (a redux of 2020)
• Seizing current ballots (as was done in GA, with 2020 ballots as a beta test)
• Intimidating electors (a 2020 redux with Vance doing what Pence didn’t)
• Falsifying audits to deny the validity of valid results (AZ challenges, for example)
• Stealing ballots and tampering with/stealing voting machines
The nuclear option, which only works for the GOP if they retain control of Congress (but potentially could be used by Dem if they control Congress): challenge the election in the courts, delay, and then invoke Amendment 20, Section 3: https://tinyurl.com/yky2kryz
“If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President … the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.”
I was thinking something very similar when I read your comment.
Most Congressional Republicans, the majority of the Supreme Court, and all of his fellow gangsters are bought and paid for .. Independent journalists are vital to our democracy.
As are some Democrats, too! There needs to be term limits for SCOTUS and an overhaul of the government from the top down! Midterms are our only hope for change. And Drumph knows it!
I think all of the representatives that are for this war should have to fight on the front lines for at least one month. They would not have security to save them.
My expectation is that we will send whatever the current call is (2,000? 2,500? 5,000?), and Iran will drone them out of existence within the hour. And His Heinous may never know it happened.
The US Army went up against ten(!) Ukranian drone operators in an exercise. They "wiped out" 10 armored brigades in less than an half an hour. The US officers were left speechless. I fear for the Marines if they are sent to invade Iran. It could be worse than Tarawa or Iwo Jima. We may even lose a few ships.
I heard of it via Malcom Nance's Substack, Black Man Spy. I'll see if I can find a url source. He has a podcast every morning where he gives a military intelligence briefing on the war.
Likely, he will step down 5 minutes before his term ends if the GOP (by crook; the hook failed) retain/seize power, to get a Ford for Nixon-style pardon. I do not think the other one will run out of wars not yet fought before he is done
You make an excellent point. I would rather see Mike Pence be chosen in an emergency election instead of allowing Just Dance Vance or Mike Traitor Johnson to take the helm until the end of the Republican Party in 2028.
This has to be top-down (or outside-in, if you prefer) meaning directed by the voters. Look up the Presidential succession order. The chain of fools is endless
If I didn't worry about my soul, because I'm so old, I'd want him stripped of all but two dimes and a nickel and the clothes on his back; and it would be illegal for anyone to give him water, food or any type of assistance...Treat him as he would treat and has treated us. He'd have to dig in the garbage for his meals and live under a bridge. But, I'll just wait until his natural death...I've no doubt his eternal life will be miserable.
I hear the states has this thing called the 25th amendment, supposedly. I mean, one could use their imagination also… it’s getting to the point where this maniac, this super dangerous psychopath is endangering the entire world. Someone MUST do something. Otherwise, Russia, or who knows who else, is going to grab the power over the US, I fear…
No, the states don't. It allows the vice president and the cabinet to sideline the president if they determine he is unable to fulfill his duties. I know the person below printed the entire explanation, but it's a lot to read, so there's your nutshell explanation.
"I hear the states has this thing called the 25th amendment, supposedly."
You might want to read the TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT and understand its limitations:
"1: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
2: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
3: Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
4: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office."
Section 4 ONLY allows the Vice President of the United States and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments to declare that the President is not able to discharge his powers and duties, and ultimately, the Houses of Congress would settle a dispute between the President and the Vice President over the President's mental capacity.
HOWEVER, the 25th Amendment does NOT permanently remove the President from the Office of the President of the United States.
The Impeachment procedure by the United States House of Representatives (Constitution, Article I, Section 2(5)). The impeached President would then be tried before the United States Senate sworn as a Court of Impeachment, and a two thirds vote of Senators present for conviction and removal will ONLY remove the President from Office; and a second vote to bar the impeached, convicted and removed official from ever serving in an Office of Honour, Trust and Profit of the United States (Constitution, Article I, Section 3(6 & 7).
The Iran government is not one that forgives and forgets. Like the USA, it will assure that it gets satisfaction and payback for the damages done to them. That means Americans are much less safe due to this regime's ignorance, imo.
He is, and the inmates are running the circus with the rest of us locked in Hotel California (for those of you who are California-overly-sensitive, I am referring to the Eagles song)
HEY, If you have family members in the military, what are they thinking? Obviously this REGIME is manipulating 18-30 year olds who they have “GROOMED!”
Sad but true! Easy enuf to prefer Carney & Canada! How in God’s (or whoever’s name)did we get to deserve this brainless pedofile, felon total ass? Begone Satan & your cloned cretin lying followers!
As much as I despise terrorism, I am starting to understand why the world doesn’t trust Americans. So much political history of the rot in Washington is now exposed and Trump is the rotten core. He and his billionaire buddies are probably all Epstein accomplices. He’s wicked.
I've often felt I kinda understand. We have already been lied to by our govt for decades. Eventually America will have to face the same kind of shaming that the Germans did after WWll.
The USA has a brainless idiot as President,and his small brain can not process a simple subject ,and didn't know about Pearl Harbor, and trump claims he is very smart, trump can't spell and doesn't know most anything.
No. He ignores advice because he is a malignant narcissist who thinks he knows best: and he goes by his gut feelings. But I do think he has a reading disorder as well.
"In 2016 many Europeans thought that Trump 1.0 was an historical exception: after the 2020 election, the relationship would return to normal – with episodes of tension, but institutions to manage them. This time, it is far harder to make that claim. Trump’s re-election shows the enduring appeal of his message to the American electorate. Most surveys show increasing scepticism by US citizens towards international institutions, alliances, and permanent American involvement abroad. The hostile elements who want to unravel the relationship with Europe will likely be a long-term feature of American politics, and Europe will need to learn to live with them. And the changes to the way the US government works – where loyalty is prized over competence – could be hard to undo. Hence, the erosion of transatlantic trust might be permanent. The majority of European publics seem to understand this. According to a Pew Research Center survey, favourable European attitudes towards the US dropped by 12.9% between 2024 and 2025. Many Europeans now regard the US as a ‘necessary partner’ rather than a trusted ally). Even more ominously, another survey found that Europeans consider Trump an ‘enemy of Europe’. It is unlikely that these perceptions will change dramatically in the near future."
Low trust: navigating transatlantic relations under Trump 2.0; European Union Institue for Security Studies; 15-Oct-25 https://tinyurl.com/2x7x9bxz
It's wrong to paint the U.S. as just the endless bad guy forever and ever, like the Nation does, and why I used to toss my mother's copies of it across the he room. It was all "The U.S. never does anything right." And just like people who say "All politicians are corrupt" or "there's no difference between the parties," you are playing into the hands of those who want to destroy everything and you are exonerating Trump as just one more in a long line. And that is wildly incorrect.
I know what you mean, not a fan for their treatment of women and repression of dissent; on the other hand you have Trumpington and his yes people dismantling the constitution and locking up children, and anyone they racially profile. As choices go it's not great!
It's the Iranian toll booth. Thanks for bringing a new business to Iran while destroying America. Those Epstein files with 38k mentions of Trump must be more horrible than we can imagine!
Good question, Paul. This regime is so spiteful, so diseased, so pathological, that getting Trump out will not do it. He's got backups that are also beyond repair. And he's a cornered animal.
The monstrous "social" that he did for Mueller's passing last night was nothing. I would predict that nukes are going to be involved before long. Hope I'm wrong, but that's the last measure of self-discipline. And I think Trump/Hegseth/Miller are about to violate it.
A war to get rid of nukes may lead to a nuclear war. We're all forked.
I sure get it, but I wouldn't say “rooting for” I just regret how that admin & its supporters are making me feel against US (in both uaes of the word) And even when it hurts us, I get a quick shot of schadenfreude.
THIS. There was NO nuclear threat to the US. How come no one talks about North Korea, whose ballistic missiles can reach the west coast. A total Epstein deflection, Joanne
Yeah !! My Claim Is Simply !! The Map Is Wrong !! And Not With In The Confines Of A Intercontinental Firing !! Also Don't GET Hyperbolic !! With Republican Bullshit !! They Always Lay It On Thick !! To Try And Sell It !! Even In Your Article !! Trump's Talking Shit About Stepping Up On This !! However You Must Have Missed The FACT That Trump Cut The Entire Nuclear Missile Programs Maintenance BUDGET TO " Zero " So Much For Acting Tough ! But That's Ok He's To Busy Putting That Bitch Tail Between His Legs !! 😮😮 With IRAN ...🤔
In A North South Launch It's Not ! About Distance !! It's About The Rockets Ability To Fight The Forces Of The Elliptical Traveling That Far From The Southern Portion To The North !! Accuracy Becomes A Extreme Issue As Well ! IF They Were Lucky Enough To Pull It Off !! I Seriously Doubt They Could Repeat IT !!!
It’s time for the Senate, the House and the Military to grow spines and do what’s right - put an end to this evil regime. Ben, thanks for your update. Greatly appreciated.
Republicans in Congress have relinquished all their congressional and oversight authority to Trump and his regime.
Many republicans replaced the ones who used to pull the reins on Trump, some have bought into destroying democracy, some are worried about being primaried and others have admitted privately that they and their family’s safety have been threatened.
On top of all this, the Trump regime and Musk dismantled the agencies that enforced checks and balances.
It’s all part of Project 2025. So that leaves us in pretty bad shape.
The Supreme Court made this possible with Citizens United.
Democrats fails to read the tea leaves and present a winning platform.
I do not see such a platform or candidate yet.
Why not get out in front of the Midterms and present the alternative?
Just criticizing does little. Repetition of wrongdoing is needed but changes nothing in a vacuum that should - must - include achievable alternatives
Winning the Midterms will not solve the problem, though it may stanch the bleeding. In effect some form of veto. A veto helps but is not a platform.
Republicans in Congress with few exceptions are traitors. Fetterman, too.
DOGE has two functions and accomplished both: (1) dismantle the administrative state per Vought's 2025 plan (the GOP plans; hello, Dems?); and (2) seize, compile and deliver personal data to Palantir for processing.
We must support the Federal District (trial level) Court Judges. Most are on the right side of Justice (Cannon will burn in Hell); but most try even though their hands are tied behind their backs by Roberts + 5. Trump v. US put an end to sanity, marrying the Citizen's United dark money with untethered immunity, underscored by the pardon power and DOJ/FBI co-conspirators.
The Epstein Files could be their undoing. It never will be released - these people learned from Nixon's failure to say FU. That is what they say and do.
You are right about everything. Democrats don’t have a strong message or leaders like MAGA, even though Trump is a disgusting horrible liar.
And I don’t get why the Dems don’t address Project 2025 at all as if it doesn’t exist. They’ve accomplished 52% of their plan maybe more by now. I’m just a little fish but I wrote my senators, letters to the editors, and post constantly about it to no avail. They are working feverishly behind the scenes to finish every horrendous action. Paul Dans said what has been accomplished (of P2025) is way beyond his wildest dreams, and that was a year ago. The corrupt Supreme Court 6 have obviously part of P2025.
Yes the Trump administration is ignoring the Epstein saga thinking it will just go away. Interesting comparison to Nixon. What would have happened if he just kept denying and ignored it. Deny deny deny is Trump’s MO. Although Congress hadn’t relinquished their Congressional authority to the president like the current GOP and journalists weren’t threatened,arrested and fired then!
Other countries are pursuing Epstein disclosure even if the U.S. is getting the run around. So maybe there will be justice outside the U.S. and the nail in the coffin. Poland is requesting help from other countries to investigate Epstein and links to Russian intelligence. We should partner up with them!
Nixon before Trump orbited with the evil that was Roy Cohn. Trump learned to attack (particularly any attackers with ad hominem vitriol); deny everything/admit nothing; rename defeat as victory; litigate everything and exhaust opponents with costly appeals and other delays; manipulate the media. Nixon, another paranoid and delusional schizophrenic had the concept in his hat but could not pull the trigger and, when the chips were down, folded instead of telling Rose Mary Woods to lie about the 18-1/2 tap gap and then issue a pardon to her and refuse to turn over any presidential papers even after the Supreme Court ordered him to do so. It had little recourse. If Congress moved to impeach him, he should (under the Cohn theory of evil) attacked them; primaried them; threatened them; and (though it would have been bad for everyone, certainly me) found reasons to distract with Vietnam, which ended 8-9 months after he resigned. He was nasty but did not have the courage of is misguided convictions. (Good for America.)
The consistent lack of messaging is the bane of Democrats and generally has been since Truman. JFK might have been good. He had appeal and society was ready to shift from the white picket fence world of DDE to the start of the adult lives of the oldest Boomers. Not to wander too far, but I don’t think Oswald bore any more responsibility than Epstein did in the timing and method of his departure. LBJ started right with Civil Rights and Great Society legislation until his chits were called and he shifted into the world of, “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today.” Dark money calls the tune. Carter, a nice man with good ideas, was useless, and Clinton had the good fortune to follow 12 years of Reagan and Bush 41, arriving just as technology gave us the Dotcom boom. Mostly, he was good for Clinton. IMO, Obama is the exception (great) that proves the general rule of my point, which is mediocre presidents. The GOP Congress hamstrung him but he re-centered the US somewhat despite Bush 43’s wars of choice.
Democrats need to dump Schumer who lurks but says nothing (“We will win” doesn’t cut it) and Jefferies, who reads the same script of unachievable platitudes whenever handed a microphone. We need people such as AOC; Jasmine Crockett; Maxwell Frost; Tammy Duckworth; Reuben Gallego; Chris Murphy; Mark Kelly; Chris Van Hollen; Ted Liu; Ro Khanna; Robert Garcia; other similar. People who know how to lead and will.
The people you mentioned are more progressive...and many of the elected democrats are scared to death of the change progressives would bring. They, as well as elected magas would lose so much money, influence, and power, that progressive democracy would bring to the people. And they'd have to change their focus to helping the people.
I agree with cutting the ineffective leaders and replacing them with people like AOC and Crockett or any of those you mentioned. Unfortunately, between corporate democrats, magas, AIPAC and the oligarchy, electing progressives will be very difficult. :(
Not just republicans (who are really magas, no longer republicans). Add in PA's John Fetterman with the magas.
Many magas are retiring. They don't think the stink of bending the knee and harming their constituents is going to follow them in the future. I hope it will follow them to the grave.
I recently asked a (now former) friend who is a staunch Republican and Trumper if she was MAGA and she was totally offended. I guess some think there’s a difference.
I agree that there are no more “regular” republicans, who I also never agreed with. They are simply MAGAs now. No distinction.
If this regime falls the way Hitler and the Nazis did, which Trump is modeling his regime after, their actions will follow them to courts and trials.
only need a handful of senate gop, that's IT. . . why no senior retired but still respected person hasn't been able to get some to budge in secret is beyond me. I don't understand what kind of a hold DL has over them -- must be the worst kind.
The Congress is Republican right now (Fetterman sucks) so, Democrats have to wait for the midterms for anything to get done. Democrats just don’t have the majority. That’s why Drumph is doing everything he can to steal the fair election process from happening and to keep us off the Drumph-Epstein files investigations!
Tamra, there must be people that have Epstein files, photos and sex tapes that could magically come out and be shown on You Tube, because no news station would provide that. Or maybe MS NOW!
Fetterman should be kicked out of the caucus, if only for optics and the ability to declare unanimity of caucus votes, a political advantage he denies to Democrats
The United States House of Representatives have the sole power to impeach, and it can be done by a majority vote of Members present pursuant to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE I -- LEGISLATIVE, Section 2(5):
"5. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."
However, you are correct to say that it will take a two thirds vote of Senators present for the United States Senate to convict and remove an impeached official on the Articles of Impeachment pursuant to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE I -- LEGISLATIVE, Section 3:
"6. The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
7. Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law."
The Chief Justice of the United States is prescribed to preside over a trial with the United States Senate sworn as a Court of Impeachment (Constitution, Article I, Section 3(6).
FOX chyrons are so biased saying the dems reject ICE funding bill - certainly do not state republicans reject separate funding bill for TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard
Trump is so delusional!! If the republicans let the motion pass that breaks out ICE and CPB from the DHS funding then TSA and Coast Guard and FEMA will be funded. The American people are not falling for the gaslighting. ICE should follow the same laws as all other law enforcement!! It just shows the point of ICE was for them to be an out of control rogue department. Illegally detaining and killing citizens and non citizens alike🤬
Trans issues? They really want to play that game again? Gas is up over a dollar a gallon, it costs much more to go to the grocery store. Do the Republicans think the general American cares about trans issues right now? We have a foolhardy excursion aka war going on that is distabilizing the whole world, and they want to pass legislatioon discriminating against a tiny group of people? We all knew they were out of touch with reality and that just proves it big time.
Notice the Iranian fact checks of adm lies is so well written . Their responses are intelligent , factual and direct . What we should be able to expect
His Royal Heinous, Donald the Barbarian, King of the Rednecks, the Hateful, the Ignorant, the Greedy, the Oblivious.
That's a good one! "King of the Rednecks" So true!
The administration should've proven to you already that he doesn't care about anything but power. People are very expendable when you seek absolute power and you've elected a complete criminal. Criminals always want to stay out of jail, don't they? What's worse is the narrative has bought the very people who were elected to work for and protect you and they are allowing you to fall as a country. Makes me wonder what he knows about his own power, what dirt could you have to sell your own self out? I don't get it either
Im thinking rump may skip Cuba!
Why, ...kindness? No, no,no...
No Oil!
Cuba is another distraction, remember Greenland….Canada? Where else 🤔🤔
The orange neck
usually likes oil grafts with his mass-murder serving!
Hoping he felt a sting as Iran stung back! At the same time we're feeling terrible from the deaths and destruction our evil Potus Hitler wannabe causes!
Oh, I fully believe he wants Canada most of all! I honestly don't sleep well much these days with Hitler 2.0 trying to do it again. It's an accurate thing to call him
I agree with you except for the not sleeping part. I refuse to allow this ass hole to define my life! 💪💙🤗🌺
Thank you Ben!
They believe him to be “gate-keeper” of the apocalypse so we can all experience disease, poverty and war. You notice that members of Trump cabinet telling the rest of us to not to complain about our suffering due to their malfeasance.
Unbelievably insane!
lol Yeah, all those evangelicals will be so happy when they discover they will stay on this planet - what they don't understand is the planet will be untenable. :(
Agree!
Totally agree with you, well said
Article 2 Section 4 We the People must demand that trump and his regime be removed!
While our eyes are on Iran,least not forget whatever he's doing w Putin in the Attic.
Hillbilly Jesus
That's a good one too! 👏
Just had a brilliant idea as I’m listening. Let’s send Ice to Iran 🙃
Yep, ICE and Border Patrol, the tough guys who kill innocent people, who shove women to the ground, who drag old men out into the cold in their underwear, who leave blind people five miles from their home.
Yes, let these tough guys be the feet on the ground. Let's see how tough they are!
Orange necks! LoL
That's too funny! 😂
They think he's Jesus
38% is the hard-core MAGAS who can never be anything but blindly loyal to their leader. They would drink the poison Kool-Aid if told to do so. They are easily gaslighted.
We have to work on how society has created this brainwashed cult. As long as the culture of hate, ignorance, racial superiority, religious bigotry, and anti-democratic authoritarianism is in sufficient numbers, we will continue to fail mightily. We have to fix it!
Cruelty is the point. And MAGA cult does not care. They have been indoctrinated to hate, to demean, degrade the "other." They rejoice cruelty. They don't care about lies or Trump's incompetency or that he could care a fig about them, they support him NO matter what!
It is a cult, and cults are dangerous. They are just too ignorant to be swayed by reality... That's why you will trigger them if you wear these kinds of shirts in public 👇
https://libtees.dashery.com/t-shirts
Make them rue their greed, complicity and white christian nationalism in the midterms!
I think 38% is an overestimate. I think it more like 20% but that one fifth is amplified by foreign powers and bots. Still, it is a cult, and they are dangerous.
Ind's polling on 20-29 bracket now, following their trending, will reach teens by mid-terms! This is a good forecast for Dem's&Rep's as well! Let's stick together people! After election real work will begin!
Yes, and many of them will be less likely to vote since they have had their faith dented by at least one of either Epstein, war etc. lies while Ice, war etc. will bring more younger voters, independents etc. that wouldn't be voting!!
Could be the Pope has some influence with all Catholics. Here's hoping Catholic priests and bishops quit telling their congregations that they'll go to Hell if they vote democratic (because of pro-choice). That would be a nice change. (The Bishop where I use to go to church was fired by the Pope in '23.)
Try another church
Good idea!!
If you haven’t seen James Carville’s rant in ok magazine addressing trump’s remarks about dislexia, prepare to laugh out loud.
Thank you for sharing. Not for the easily offended. but a riot for those of us who not only do not mind, but appreciate him. Here it is. https://tinyurl.com/4r3hpb8z
I’m not a fan of that kind of language in public spaces but I 100% agree with what Carville is saying. It is what I mumble to myself while reading the news these days. One of many day dreams I have is the sick evil mean monster he is referring to in the wrestling ring at the WH with Carville, frail as he looks. Carville with his intelligence and the deep anger many of us share would make mincemeat of that lying tub of lard who might then have many real bone spurs. Sadly, just a fantasy. I was appalled at all the death caused by Bush 2, now a little painter who says nothing. These days I am horrified at the joy our current sack of 💩 awful prez takes at causing death and mayhem everywhere. He harms everyone. The needs of Americans and others mean nothing to him. When will this end?
I see a common thread: failed artists who seize the reins of power to kill other people's children
Oh my god! That was great! Now why doesn’t he say what he really thinks!
You took the words out of my mouth!
He's great, and his wife!!
I like him! 😆
Loved this, totally on point from another senior ranter in Ireland
The Emperor is wearing no clothes. But the Republicans won't tell him.
Keep that visual in your head for 2+ seconds without screaming. I could not.
2 legged hippo!
He could be a skinny as a rail, he could be tall and handsome, he could be well built. What he can never be is an honest, good hearted person. He is only the
shell of a human. He can pretend like he is superman or whoever was depicted in his silly cards; but, in the end he is just a lonely old man who is taking his misery out on the rest of the world.
His psychosis and feelings of exclusion and inadequacy only deepen with age, dementia an failure. Immunity and the power to pardon; the powers to coerce by medial control and control of the DOJ and FBI; and the ability to declare war with no checks pretty much make him untouchable. We have to ensure that there is an endgame worth having when he finally takes his leave
Donald Trump's life is a huge failure
Epic
All he had to do this 2nd term was to focus on bringing prices down and to stay out of war. That's it. And he'd probably easily remain in office. But no............ too tempting to grift beyond all belief while looking for the ugliest, most brutal and expensive ways to demonstrate how powerful he is.
All he had to do was absolutely nothing. Nap, eat, eat, golf, eat, nap, golf, eat
probably
No, that's not it. Republican policies cannot bring prices down. Period. And there's the Epstein files. (My congresswoman wears a "release the files" button while she's talking about the Iran or ICE or the economy — just to keep it in people's minds.) But he could've avoided the war.
He didn't even need to "avoid" the war. He started the war and it wasn't because of our need to be safe. lol
He needs to be forced to wear a "loser" sign around his neck in public at all times.
On August 8, 2019, "Two days before his death [on August 10, 2019], Epstein made Kahn a co-executor of his estate, along with Darren Indyke, Epstein's former attorney. Both are named as beneficiaries of Epstein's estate." Houston Public Media; 11-Mar-26; https://tinyurl.com/3ec3sbt9. In his amended trust (https://tinyurl.com/4c4tkr9v), Epstein gave to Kahn ($25M) and Indyke ($50M) bequests (after-death gifts); Trust Section 2.3.
Many others also received specific bequests (gifts), including Ghislaine Maxwell ($10M) and others had loans forgiven. Some names are shown; others are redacted. The amounts are quite large. Kahn and Indyke also were granted compensation after expenses of $250K per year for their services as Trustees. (Trust Section 5.2).
A very large sum of money was intended for Karyna Shuliak Epstein's last partner and main heiress. According to Le Monde (22-Mar-26) "According to that document, Shuliak was supposed to inherit $100 million (€85 million) and the criminal's properties: his Manhattan townhouse, his apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris, his private islands, his ranch in New Mexico, as well as a 32-carat ring purchased for $1.2 million. Despite this lavish inheritance, the 36-year-old, who currently lives in New York, will not see a penny, as American and French authorities have decided to freeze the estate to allocate it to a victims' compensation fund." https://tinyurl.com/4vm7hnvn
Great site, ty
Hillbilly Jesus
😆
Love your Royal nomenclature... lol
The efforts to defeat it are many (and this list is not complete) and must be stopped each time an advance is made largely, but not entirely, until the SAVE/Jim Crow Act:
• Removing qualified voters from rent rolls
• Preventing qualified voters from voting at polls, including DHS intimidation
• Preventing rural and other challenged voters from voting remotely (by mail)
• Making the registration process excessively challenging
• Preventing voting due to inability to present specifically required identity proof
• Substituting state legislators for designated ones (a redux of 2020)
• Seizing current ballots (as was done in GA, with 2020 ballots as a beta test)
• Intimidating electors (a 2020 redux with Vance doing what Pence didn’t)
• Falsifying audits to deny the validity of valid results (AZ challenges, for example)
• Stealing ballots and tampering with/stealing voting machines
The nuclear option, which only works for the GOP if they retain control of Congress (but potentially could be used by Dem if they control Congress): challenge the election in the courts, delay, and then invoke Amendment 20, Section 3: https://tinyurl.com/yky2kryz
“If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President … the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.”
Please, can someone please put him in an a mental hospital before he gets all our military solders killed😢😡😢😡😢
I was thinking something very similar when I read your comment.
Most Congressional Republicans, the majority of the Supreme Court, and all of his fellow gangsters are bought and paid for .. Independent journalists are vital to our democracy.
As are some Democrats, too! There needs to be term limits for SCOTUS and an overhaul of the government from the top down! Midterms are our only hope for change. And Drumph knows it!
I think all of the representatives that are for this war should have to fight on the front lines for at least one month. They would not have security to save them.
My expectation is that we will send whatever the current call is (2,000? 2,500? 5,000?), and Iran will drone them out of existence within the hour. And His Heinous may never know it happened.
The US Army went up against ten(!) Ukranian drone operators in an exercise. They "wiped out" 10 armored brigades in less than an half an hour. The US officers were left speechless. I fear for the Marines if they are sent to invade Iran. It could be worse than Tarawa or Iwo Jima. We may even lose a few ships.
When are the military leaders going to refuse to obey illegal orders? They should have done so right from the beginning.
Maybe when someone at the Naval War College reminds some 3 star and 4 star Admirals about:
• Iwo Jima: 6,821 killed and 19,217 wounded
• Okinawa: 12,00 deaths and 49,000+ wounded
Iwo Jima and Okinawa: Death at Japan’s Doorstep; https://tinyurl.com/t3aut254
As to your introductory premise: I agree 100%
Exactly.
That's very interesting. I would like to know more about it. What is the source?
I misremembered the story some, but here's a link. Two battalions is bad enough.
https://defence24.com/geopolitics/two-battalions-destroyed-the-truth-about-natos-exercise
I heard of it via Malcom Nance's Substack, Black Man Spy. I'll see if I can find a url source. He has a podcast every morning where he gives a military intelligence briefing on the war.
How about putting a bullet in his head instead of putting him in a mental hospital?
I really want to see both Trump and Bibi rot in jail for years without parole!
True, Joseph. Both are evil, evil beings! However, some sort of death would be more suitable. The world would be a better place without those two.
Well, Iran has announced that that is on their agenda.
I hope they are successful! Good riddance to them both! I believe the world would break down in celebration!
But Joseph, we the American people would be paying for prison until the MONSTER dies!
That's true, Renee! We've given this motherfucker enough of our money! 😤
A drop in the bucket compared to the money he stole from the economy.
It's like being a pallbearer. Ya gotta get the job done!
i would add a few extra names, like putin, kim jong-un, stephen miller, kristi noem etc etc etc
Since they're so fond of each other, maybe they could share a prison cell.
Likely, he will step down 5 minutes before his term ends if the GOP (by crook; the hook failed) retain/seize power, to get a Ford for Nixon-style pardon. I do not think the other one will run out of wars not yet fought before he is done
You make an excellent point. I would rather see Mike Pence be chosen in an emergency election instead of allowing Just Dance Vance or Mike Traitor Johnson to take the helm until the end of the Republican Party in 2028.
This has to be top-down (or outside-in, if you prefer) meaning directed by the voters. Look up the Presidential succession order. The chain of fools is endless
I know, but surely I can still dream?
I'm holding out for prison. Sorry, my dream is to see him in handcuffs.
Me too Anastasia!
Handcuffs first, then execute him.
If I didn't worry about my soul, because I'm so old, I'd want him stripped of all but two dimes and a nickel and the clothes on his back; and it would be illegal for anyone to give him water, food or any type of assistance...Treat him as he would treat and has treated us. He'd have to dig in the garbage for his meals and live under a bridge. But, I'll just wait until his natural death...I've no doubt his eternal life will be miserable.
Joanne, how about putting a bullet in his pecker so he has the most painfully death he deserves!
Oh yes!!! That would certainly be painful! Make sure they pop a few bullets to ensure he bleeds out!
A FORENSIC PSYCH HOSPITAL
HE MUST BE REMOVED. ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
For the safety (and sanity) of the whole world. USA, it’s up to you. Nobody is coming to save you from him. You can’t count on Iran to do it for you.
How? We have the No Kings protest next weekend...do we storm the White House and the golf course too? Seriously, how can we do this?
I hear the states has this thing called the 25th amendment, supposedly. I mean, one could use their imagination also… it’s getting to the point where this maniac, this super dangerous psychopath is endangering the entire world. Someone MUST do something. Otherwise, Russia, or who knows who else, is going to grab the power over the US, I fear…
No, the states don't. It allows the vice president and the cabinet to sideline the president if they determine he is unable to fulfill his duties. I know the person below printed the entire explanation, but it's a lot to read, so there's your nutshell explanation.
Metaljoe69,
"I hear the states has this thing called the 25th amendment, supposedly."
You might want to read the TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT and understand its limitations:
"1: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
2: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
3: Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
4: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office."
Section 4 ONLY allows the Vice President of the United States and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments to declare that the President is not able to discharge his powers and duties, and ultimately, the Houses of Congress would settle a dispute between the President and the Vice President over the President's mental capacity.
HOWEVER, the 25th Amendment does NOT permanently remove the President from the Office of the President of the United States.
The Impeachment procedure by the United States House of Representatives (Constitution, Article I, Section 2(5)). The impeached President would then be tried before the United States Senate sworn as a Court of Impeachment, and a two thirds vote of Senators present for conviction and removal will ONLY remove the President from Office; and a second vote to bar the impeached, convicted and removed official from ever serving in an Office of Honour, Trust and Profit of the United States (Constitution, Article I, Section 3(6 & 7).
Source: https://constitutionus.com/constitution/full-text/
he's well on his way to get faaaar more than just military killed... and it won't be just in the middle east.
The Iran government is not one that forgives and forgets. Like the USA, it will assure that it gets satisfaction and payback for the damages done to them. That means Americans are much less safe due to this regime's ignorance, imo.
He is, and the inmates are running the circus with the rest of us locked in Hotel California (for those of you who are California-overly-sensitive, I am referring to the Eagles song)
His family won't because they are grifting off us tax payers.
HEY, If you have family members in the military, what are they thinking? Obviously this REGIME is manipulating 18-30 year olds who they have “GROOMED!”
Did you know some of the officers are telling the troops that this is God's religious war?
Well played Iran!
Why do I find myself rooting for Iran? The regime in the US is equally as dangerous, notorious, and ruthless
I am too, Paul! Crazy huh? I feel Trump and Bibi are a bigger threat to the world!
Both Donald Trump and BIBI are Terrorist to the world. Both needs to be done away with.
Along with Putin!!!
Yes, Edward! No matter what it takes! The sooner the better!
We would have been fine if Trump had left well enough alone.
Sad but true! Easy enuf to prefer Carney & Canada! How in God’s (or whoever’s name)did we get to deserve this brainless pedofile, felon total ass? Begone Satan & your cloned cretin lying followers!
Yes. The GOP says Iran kills protesters. What about Renee Good and Alex Pretti?
Right?! I keep saying this!
And all those people he disappeared.
As much as I despise terrorism, I am starting to understand why the world doesn’t trust Americans. So much political history of the rot in Washington is now exposed and Trump is the rotten core. He and his billionaire buddies are probably all Epstein accomplices. He’s wicked.
I've often felt I kinda understand. We have already been lied to by our govt for decades. Eventually America will have to face the same kind of shaming that the Germans did after WWll.
The USA has a brainless idiot as President,and his small brain can not process a simple subject ,and didn't know about Pearl Harbor, and trump claims he is very smart, trump can't spell and doesn't know most anything.
Can he read at all, is that why he ignores advice because he can't actually read them.
No. He ignores advice because he is a malignant narcissist who thinks he knows best: and he goes by his gut feelings. But I do think he has a reading disorder as well.
"In 2016 many Europeans thought that Trump 1.0 was an historical exception: after the 2020 election, the relationship would return to normal – with episodes of tension, but institutions to manage them. This time, it is far harder to make that claim. Trump’s re-election shows the enduring appeal of his message to the American electorate. Most surveys show increasing scepticism by US citizens towards international institutions, alliances, and permanent American involvement abroad. The hostile elements who want to unravel the relationship with Europe will likely be a long-term feature of American politics, and Europe will need to learn to live with them. And the changes to the way the US government works – where loyalty is prized over competence – could be hard to undo. Hence, the erosion of transatlantic trust might be permanent. The majority of European publics seem to understand this. According to a Pew Research Center survey, favourable European attitudes towards the US dropped by 12.9% between 2024 and 2025. Many Europeans now regard the US as a ‘necessary partner’ rather than a trusted ally). Even more ominously, another survey found that Europeans consider Trump an ‘enemy of Europe’. It is unlikely that these perceptions will change dramatically in the near future."
Low trust: navigating transatlantic relations under Trump 2.0; European Union Institue for Security Studies; 15-Oct-25 https://tinyurl.com/2x7x9bxz
And I'm less anxious knowing these country's leaders now understand and will not trust the US again, putting themselves in more danger.
Not every country has insane leadership in control. Most don't. Fortunately
We agree with you, we consider the Drump Regime a threat to America as well!!!
It's wrong to paint the U.S. as just the endless bad guy forever and ever, like the Nation does, and why I used to toss my mother's copies of it across the he room. It was all "The U.S. never does anything right." And just like people who say "All politicians are corrupt" or "there's no difference between the parties," you are playing into the hands of those who want to destroy everything and you are exonerating Trump as just one more in a long line. And that is wildly incorrect.
The same way Xi Jinping seems like a good guy.
I know what you mean, not a fan for their treatment of women and repression of dissent; on the other hand you have Trumpington and his yes people dismantling the constitution and locking up children, and anyone they racially profile. As choices go it's not great!
Irans EZ pass for the straight of Humas is a very good idea too bad no EZ pass for the US
It's the Iranian toll booth. Thanks for bringing a new business to Iran while destroying America. Those Epstein files with 38k mentions of Trump must be more horrible than we can imagine!
Exactly
Good question, Paul. This regime is so spiteful, so diseased, so pathological, that getting Trump out will not do it. He's got backups that are also beyond repair. And he's a cornered animal.
The monstrous "social" that he did for Mueller's passing last night was nothing. I would predict that nukes are going to be involved before long. Hope I'm wrong, but that's the last measure of self-discipline. And I think Trump/Hegseth/Miller are about to violate it.
A war to get rid of nukes may lead to a nuclear war. We're all forked.
I sure get it, but I wouldn't say “rooting for” I just regret how that admin & its supporters are making me feel against US (in both uaes of the word) And even when it hurts us, I get a quick shot of schadenfreude.
THIS. There was NO nuclear threat to the US. How come no one talks about North Korea, whose ballistic missiles can reach the west coast. A total Epstein deflection, Joanne
The N. Koreans cannot really reach the West Coast of America. They are still trying for Hawaii.
Hawaii is 5,000 miles away; the nearest part of Alaska is only 3,000 miles away
Alaska Is Way !! North And Way Longer For North Korea !! It Would Be Easier To Figure How To Hit The West Coast Than Alaska !!!…🤔
Oddly enough, the people at the Anchorage Daily News disagree with you:
"The shortest distance from North Korea to the outstretches of Alaska is about 3,000 miles
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/03/12/could-north-korea-actually-land-a-missile-in-alaska/
By another odd coincidence, it seems, the people at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser are under the impression that:
"Hawaii, at a distance of 4,660 miles from North Korea, is much closer."
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/11/28/breaking-news/north-korean-missile-launch-raises-stakes-for-hawaii-defense-planning/
Alaska is in range. Do you have support for your imprecision claim?
Yeah !! My Claim Is Simply !! The Map Is Wrong !! And Not With In The Confines Of A Intercontinental Firing !! Also Don't GET Hyperbolic !! With Republican Bullshit !! They Always Lay It On Thick !! To Try And Sell It !! Even In Your Article !! Trump's Talking Shit About Stepping Up On This !! However You Must Have Missed The FACT That Trump Cut The Entire Nuclear Missile Programs Maintenance BUDGET TO " Zero " So Much For Acting Tough ! But That's Ok He's To Busy Putting That Bitch Tail Between His Legs !! 😮😮 With IRAN ...🤔
Yes, you are right. "The Map Is Wrong !!" Truly, the world it flat. Yes, of course.
In A North South Launch It's Not ! About Distance !! It's About The Rockets Ability To Fight The Forces Of The Elliptical Traveling That Far From The Southern Portion To The North !! Accuracy Becomes A Extreme Issue As Well ! IF They Were Lucky Enough To Pull It Off !! I Seriously Doubt They Could Repeat IT !!!
And Israel.
It’s time for the Senate, the House and the Military to grow spines and do what’s right - put an end to this evil regime. Ben, thanks for your update. Greatly appreciated.
I don’t understand why they haven’t already done that. The crap he’s pulling and getting away with pisses me off!
Republicans in Congress have relinquished all their congressional and oversight authority to Trump and his regime.
Many republicans replaced the ones who used to pull the reins on Trump, some have bought into destroying democracy, some are worried about being primaried and others have admitted privately that they and their family’s safety have been threatened.
On top of all this, the Trump regime and Musk dismantled the agencies that enforced checks and balances.
It’s all part of Project 2025. So that leaves us in pretty bad shape.
The Supreme Court made this possible with Citizens United.
Democrats fails to read the tea leaves and present a winning platform.
I do not see such a platform or candidate yet.
Why not get out in front of the Midterms and present the alternative?
Just criticizing does little. Repetition of wrongdoing is needed but changes nothing in a vacuum that should - must - include achievable alternatives
Winning the Midterms will not solve the problem, though it may stanch the bleeding. In effect some form of veto. A veto helps but is not a platform.
Republicans in Congress with few exceptions are traitors. Fetterman, too.
DOGE has two functions and accomplished both: (1) dismantle the administrative state per Vought's 2025 plan (the GOP plans; hello, Dems?); and (2) seize, compile and deliver personal data to Palantir for processing.
We must support the Federal District (trial level) Court Judges. Most are on the right side of Justice (Cannon will burn in Hell); but most try even though their hands are tied behind their backs by Roberts + 5. Trump v. US put an end to sanity, marrying the Citizen's United dark money with untethered immunity, underscored by the pardon power and DOJ/FBI co-conspirators.
The Epstein Files could be their undoing. It never will be released - these people learned from Nixon's failure to say FU. That is what they say and do.
You are right about everything. Democrats don’t have a strong message or leaders like MAGA, even though Trump is a disgusting horrible liar.
And I don’t get why the Dems don’t address Project 2025 at all as if it doesn’t exist. They’ve accomplished 52% of their plan maybe more by now. I’m just a little fish but I wrote my senators, letters to the editors, and post constantly about it to no avail. They are working feverishly behind the scenes to finish every horrendous action. Paul Dans said what has been accomplished (of P2025) is way beyond his wildest dreams, and that was a year ago. The corrupt Supreme Court 6 have obviously part of P2025.
Yes the Trump administration is ignoring the Epstein saga thinking it will just go away. Interesting comparison to Nixon. What would have happened if he just kept denying and ignored it. Deny deny deny is Trump’s MO. Although Congress hadn’t relinquished their Congressional authority to the president like the current GOP and journalists weren’t threatened,arrested and fired then!
Other countries are pursuing Epstein disclosure even if the U.S. is getting the run around. So maybe there will be justice outside the U.S. and the nail in the coffin. Poland is requesting help from other countries to investigate Epstein and links to Russian intelligence. We should partner up with them!
Nixon before Trump orbited with the evil that was Roy Cohn. Trump learned to attack (particularly any attackers with ad hominem vitriol); deny everything/admit nothing; rename defeat as victory; litigate everything and exhaust opponents with costly appeals and other delays; manipulate the media. Nixon, another paranoid and delusional schizophrenic had the concept in his hat but could not pull the trigger and, when the chips were down, folded instead of telling Rose Mary Woods to lie about the 18-1/2 tap gap and then issue a pardon to her and refuse to turn over any presidential papers even after the Supreme Court ordered him to do so. It had little recourse. If Congress moved to impeach him, he should (under the Cohn theory of evil) attacked them; primaried them; threatened them; and (though it would have been bad for everyone, certainly me) found reasons to distract with Vietnam, which ended 8-9 months after he resigned. He was nasty but did not have the courage of is misguided convictions. (Good for America.)
The consistent lack of messaging is the bane of Democrats and generally has been since Truman. JFK might have been good. He had appeal and society was ready to shift from the white picket fence world of DDE to the start of the adult lives of the oldest Boomers. Not to wander too far, but I don’t think Oswald bore any more responsibility than Epstein did in the timing and method of his departure. LBJ started right with Civil Rights and Great Society legislation until his chits were called and he shifted into the world of, “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today.” Dark money calls the tune. Carter, a nice man with good ideas, was useless, and Clinton had the good fortune to follow 12 years of Reagan and Bush 41, arriving just as technology gave us the Dotcom boom. Mostly, he was good for Clinton. IMO, Obama is the exception (great) that proves the general rule of my point, which is mediocre presidents. The GOP Congress hamstrung him but he re-centered the US somewhat despite Bush 43’s wars of choice.
Democrats need to dump Schumer who lurks but says nothing (“We will win” doesn’t cut it) and Jefferies, who reads the same script of unachievable platitudes whenever handed a microphone. We need people such as AOC; Jasmine Crockett; Maxwell Frost; Tammy Duckworth; Reuben Gallego; Chris Murphy; Mark Kelly; Chris Van Hollen; Ted Liu; Ro Khanna; Robert Garcia; other similar. People who know how to lead and will.
The people you mentioned are more progressive...and many of the elected democrats are scared to death of the change progressives would bring. They, as well as elected magas would lose so much money, influence, and power, that progressive democracy would bring to the people. And they'd have to change their focus to helping the people.
I agree with cutting the ineffective leaders and replacing them with people like AOC and Crockett or any of those you mentioned. Unfortunately, between corporate democrats, magas, AIPAC and the oligarchy, electing progressives will be very difficult. :(
He should be executed he’s done more damage than most serial killer’s .
Not just republicans (who are really magas, no longer republicans). Add in PA's John Fetterman with the magas.
Many magas are retiring. They don't think the stink of bending the knee and harming their constituents is going to follow them in the future. I hope it will follow them to the grave.
I recently asked a (now former) friend who is a staunch Republican and Trumper if she was MAGA and she was totally offended. I guess some think there’s a difference.
I agree that there are no more “regular” republicans, who I also never agreed with. They are simply MAGAs now. No distinction.
If this regime falls the way Hitler and the Nazis did, which Trump is modeling his regime after, their actions will follow them to courts and trials.
only need a handful of senate gop, that's IT. . . why no senior retired but still respected person hasn't been able to get some to budge in secret is beyond me. I don't understand what kind of a hold DL has over them -- must be the worst kind.
I totally agree with you. Enough is enough!
The Congress is Republican right now (Fetterman sucks) so, Democrats have to wait for the midterms for anything to get done. Democrats just don’t have the majority. That’s why Drumph is doing everything he can to steal the fair election process from happening and to keep us off the Drumph-Epstein files investigations!
If they would release some of the sex tapes or recover body’s from Epsteins ranch it would be the end of his presidency.
Tamra, there must be people that have Epstein files, photos and sex tapes that could magically come out and be shown on You Tube, because no news station would provide that. Or maybe MS NOW!
It’s still up to Congress to decide and impeach on tying him to a crime. Remember SCOTUS made him immune as a sitting president!
I think they just revoked that but it could be fake?
I wondered how France got unredacted files, when even our Congress did not. What's that about?
Fetterman should be kicked out of the caucus, if only for optics and the ability to declare unanimity of caucus votes, a political advantage he denies to Democrats
He deserves that!
I agree 💯
How many of these atrocities are impeachable offenses!!!!!
I lost count months ago
All, but Mikey Johnson less won't put it thru. Always tabled
Kelvin,
The United States House of Representatives have the sole power to impeach, and it can be done by a majority vote of Members present pursuant to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE I -- LEGISLATIVE, Section 2(5):
"5. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."
However, you are correct to say that it will take a two thirds vote of Senators present for the United States Senate to convict and remove an impeached official on the Articles of Impeachment pursuant to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE I -- LEGISLATIVE, Section 3:
"6. The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
7. Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law."
Source: https://constitutionus.com/constitution/full-text/
Yes; my prior post, deleted, had a reference error typo. My bad. Thanks. KH
They also need the VP to agree to impeachment - can you see Vance doing that?
The Chief Justice of the United States is prescribed to preside over a trial with the United States Senate sworn as a Court of Impeachment (Constitution, Article I, Section 3(6).
yep... he's ITCHING to take over in any way possible
What a choice - an insane tyrant or a sane (?) tyrant.
FOX chyrons are so biased saying the dems reject ICE funding bill - certainly do not state republicans reject separate funding bill for TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard
Thank you, Ben, for keeping us apprised of the news on a daily basis.
Trump is so delusional!! If the republicans let the motion pass that breaks out ICE and CPB from the DHS funding then TSA and Coast Guard and FEMA will be funded. The American people are not falling for the gaslighting. ICE should follow the same laws as all other law enforcement!! It just shows the point of ICE was for them to be an out of control rogue department. Illegally detaining and killing citizens and non citizens alike🤬
Excellent comment..GOP bootlickers doesn't want to compromise at all..
Hope the rest of him crashes out! C’mon cholesterol!!!
Clots & prayers!!!👏🏼👏🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🙃
Meanwhile emperor Von Shitzinpants is filling his XXL adult diaper on the golf course this and every weekend.
You made me laugh my ass off with your comment! 😂 So damn true though!
The "Cheeto Pedo" is insane!! When will this shit end??
Also don’t forget to protest next Saturday March 28 at a No Kings rally. Heard that Meidas will be livestreaming the Twin Cities protest?
Trans issues? They really want to play that game again? Gas is up over a dollar a gallon, it costs much more to go to the grocery store. Do the Republicans think the general American cares about trans issues right now? We have a foolhardy excursion aka war going on that is distabilizing the whole world, and they want to pass legislatioon discriminating against a tiny group of people? We all knew they were out of touch with reality and that just proves it big time.
he is insane and demented but the 6 maga supremes and congress ddn't stop him...
Notice the Iranian fact checks of adm lies is so well written . Their responses are intelligent , factual and direct . What we should be able to expect