The future should be about dignity, healthcare, housing, good paying jobs, etc. while taxing the bejesus out of billionaires, re-establishing our prominence and good will globally and getting our old alliances to hopefully trust us again. It’s going to be a long slog but we’re here for it. Oh yeah, accountability from everything Trump on a massive scale.
And maybe if we win we can force the red states to secede and stop receiving money from the blue and purple states and then the federal government can use the federal dollars that went to the red states to vastly improve services for everyone in the blue/purple states.
I know, this is a relaxing dream. But did you know that 50% of blacks live in the South--you know, the states that set speed records redistricting to strip blacks of representation?
It's a sticky situation we're in, because we can't throw vulnerable people to the red hyenas.
Maybe all that money stolen from us by the felon and his family will be frozen until the courts can determine if there are any criminals in the midst. And if guilty, that money should be paid toward our huge debt.
Well said. Some of that we can do on our own...treat all others with dignity and kindness but the rest of it is institutionalize "stuff' that a nation relies on it's government for. I think most folks who have experienced being lied to in any situation from having your kids lie to you to your spouse lie and cheat on you will agree it takes time, a lot of time to rebuild that trust and it may never be as it was before the lie. So it may take a long long time for our former allies to trust us again. Is there a difference between trusting and relying on? Can we develop trade agreements and protection agreements like NATO even if the other nations don't fully trust us? Can a nation sign a trade agreement with us and say I'll agree to this with you BUT I'm doing a lot of work with other nations to protect myself in case you renege? Sort of like an abused spouse saying yes I'll try again but every month I'll be putting money in MY bank account so it will be there if you abuse me again and leaving will be easy (or at least easier). I do think most nations have faith in Americans in general but since this anomaly happened once, what's to stop it from happening again?
It is the government who is causing all of the distrust and betrayal-betrayal to other nations and betrayal to the voters who voted for trump. During the FIFA events, I got the impression that our guests really liked the Americans who they met ( and the weird food and shopping facilities).
I'm also fairly certain that people voted for trump because he promised lower prices on DAY ONE. He would start no wars(trump may not call this a war, but it sure fits the dictionary definition). He just wants to eliminate Congress' power to declare war and reduce the chance that there may be enough people who would vote against it.
I think/hope you are right. From the little I've read it does seem folks like us...just as we have no animosity towards folks in Russia (and I guess now trump and the entire GOP congress have no animosity towards putin and that regime, contrary to the feelings of the vast majority of Americans). I agree (and hope) that lots of voters did vote for him because they believed the crap about no new wars and lowering prices. What I don't get is why so many believed a person with such a history of lying....well, I do get it...I spent many years working with abused women and for so long they would believe the abuser when he said he'd never do it again, and of course he did. ..not sure what available data shows now but back then it showed it took 7-9 times of leaving for a battered spouse to not return.
Sad Pat that it takes so long for a person to leave abusers, but I’ve seen it while working in hospital and ER’s, the abuser “promises never to hurt the victim again” after beating the crap out the victim (they don’t get arrested because the victim refuses to prosecute because they are mostly scared. Thanks for your comment, brought back a sad memory!
There must sort of personality that likes abuse. Trumpers must have it. There was an interview with a farming family. The husband was pretty much fed up. The wife said," Oh, I'll wait see."
trump/Hegseth are getting more and more like Putin-bombs homes, schools, hospitals (seriously) and even a funeral while they were trying to bury a falling soldier!!!
It is not just the government. I go to the grocery store, standing in line I hear the stupidest comments coming out of magas mouths: 'it's Biden's fault' that the milk is so expensive. smdh
Also, the people who voted for and continue to support the felon is because they've been given the power to hate others and harm them. Some wanted to be rich as well since the felon was 'such a good businessman despite the fact that he's claimed bankruptcy 7 times, and even bankrupted his casino. lmao
He graduated from Wharton in business and yet he doesn't have the concept of tariffs down. He paid no taxes for several years because he deferred his business expenses ( losses?) from year to year. Look at Truth Social. It opened in 2022 at $82 and now as of September 2026 it's worth $9.02.
LOL I doubt when I die that I'll ever trust this country's leaders again...and I'll never trust anyone who is or was a maga. Maya doesn't have to tell me more than once. :) IF I won't trust my own government, why would our previous allies? smdh
I think the Democrats should create a detailed Regime Change 2026 document that details everything they will reverse after the Midterms. Hit every Project 2025 initiative that has been implemented and show the corrective action. There needs to be more attention on Project 2025 -- it's all there, about 60% has been implemented. And there should be a detailed plan to reverse it and hold people accountable for crimes (war crimes, crimes against humanity, violations of their constitutional responsibility -- and FINANCIAL CRIMES!)
Yes, and every effort must be made to increase the Supreme Court to 13. Four more justices who believe in Democracy and the Constitution are necessary to undo the fascist decisions that gave given Trump nearly unstoppable power. Also, create the law that reasserts the separation of powers and requires a DOJ completely severed from the Presidency.
While we're dreaming how about eliminating the electoral college? First term trump did not win the majority. Second term, he won both, but possibly if the close races went the other way, Kamala might have won.
I have no problems increasing SCOTUS. They need to get rid of the shadow docket (that is not justice) and hire more judges to be able to hear all of the cases, imo. And they've needed more justices for years.
But, one could also simply put them all out to pasture and pick new ones. We'd still have to pay their salary and benefits, but they'd have NO power whatsoever, as they'd be retired by Congress.
🎯 And voter fraud needs to be called out across the country for the lie it is. There is no reason SCOTUS should ever be ruling on a) a lie or b) something the Constitution clearly defines as a responsibility of the states and congress. Why are they even ruling on this? And Democrats need to get the messages out now. If they don't know how, hire the people who know how to do this!! There are 425+ Democrats that should be doing this right now!! This is a fascist regime, stop it now!
I've been wanting democrats in the House to be split into small groups so they can really work on issues needing changing or reinstatement, or whatever.
8 to a committee would give us approximately 30 committees +/-. Each committee would be responsible for investigating a specific issue for changes, reinstatement, lies, etc. They should have been doing this all along. The democrats must call out ALL of this administration's crime, corruption and lies with facts.
Should’ve done that a long time ago, like maybe a year ago! I think no one has done anything to present a Project 26 or even thinking of 28! There’s only a couple of presidential candidates that have risen past mid-range; and that campaign starts right after the midterm (if anyone has thought that far ahead!). Anyway, imho! Thx
I still hear magas blaming Biden for everything, while standing in line at the grocery store. I swear magas don't take any personal responsibility. ugh
I would turn and ask how is the price of milk Biden's fault when trump has been in office 20 months. I would ask, why in trump 1.0 was the whole term Obama's fault, and it seems this term, trump 2.0 is all Biden's fault. How? What has Biden done in the last 20 months that made milk prices rise?
If the right to vote survives until 2028, I think the presidential candidate field will be a repeat of 2008; so many good qualified capable candidates that we the voters will have a tremendous burden selecting.
The problem those candidates have currently is the Senate, house and some state AG’s and Govenors being owned and controlled by AIPAC and oligarchs. The 2028 candidates have to be free of that so they can make their own decisions.
And that list of reversals has to have meat to it... attach the Committees, Special Council, etc. who are responsible to get it done.. the exact groups who should be prepping the legal basis now
The Dems have got to be specific, there is so much work to be done to even stabilize the govt... we, The People, need to know concrete plans are being set... now.
The issues of the American people point directly to the lies of the GOP. It's killing two birds with one stone in so many cases. Like the high cost of gas ties directly in to the issue of an illegal war. Voter suppression ties directly into the voter fraud lie and the president's lack of authority over elections. Etc., etc., etc.
I think they should have been doing this the first day of the felon's term. There are over 200 democrats in the House. If they worked in small groups over the last year, there's no telling how many interesting items of interest might have come out. And hey, maybe, like the magas, they could have found an old law to reinstate to help our side. Or are there no old laws to help? Don't know, but magas seem to find them rather regularly. Oh what they could have discovered.... or had set up for if we win the midterms.
Another way of looking at it is that they are stealing our tax money to make themselves fabulously rich and using our infrastructure to satisfy their own goals (again, make themselves richer) and not using it to solve the nation's goals. I don't think they are totally incompetent, they are extremely competent at using the nation's resources for their own goals. Whether they are "batshit" crazy depends on whether you define unfettered greed and selfishness as crazy.
Thank you! It really bothers me when people say this administration is stupid or incompetent. No, they're not. They're extremely good at getting what they want.
To me, it's their attitudes that make them seem stupid and incompetent. Seeing what they're getting away with, you understand they may act stupid and incompetent, but they either know what they're doing, or it's because they're following Project 2025, and those people are definitely working in the background.
Look how well they've done at overturning our democratic republic in such a short amount of time? It looks like incompetence, but the end result is exactly what the heritage house and oligarchy wanted...and of course, magas who love to hate will support him in any way.
Hey Ben, no worries on the Sunday schedule, you do you😊 my fear is Elon Musk. I hope someone is watching him! Trump seems too cool and not very worried about this election. Something is brewing.
I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist;but I have felt that Musk & the tech bros DID mess with the last election, thus foisting the current horror show on us. They say thst it isn't possible, but i think that they did find a way and we'd better find out how or we'll get these monsters again
Extensive information now exist thru analysis, detailed studies, university compilations of state information and high level computer gurus dissecting individual state voter results that overwhelming evidence shows 2024 vote counts were changed and manipulated.
Elon thru starlink was able to penetrate the link from county to state data banks and added counties loaded with Trump votes, like he added BurkeCounty in Florida. He added votes and counties in other swing states to assure Trump the electoral college.
Agree, 2024 election, my paper vote had been rejected by the voting machine 3 times before it finally went through and I could leave the polling area. I’m not a conspiracy theorist either, but I’m still not sure if my vote was counted for the candidate I selected!
They do not manipulate at the county precinct voting machine level, they figured out in 2024 how to change votes in computer uploading of data from county to state.
Elon has an attribute that is missing from most of the Dem leaders: ruthlessness. Tie his no-limits means to unscrupulous, amoral self interest ends. Elon and his pals (including the Russian mafia headed by Vlad) can use manipulation and bribes and payoffs (using the money they stole from us) to grab even more power. The DNC is holding back while they could be crushing the bad guys with truth. Why?
Do not rely on electronic data transfers. From precinct level up, the vote counts need to be phoned in with both party’s having verifiers at every location
I think we are all giving Trump too much credit because I truly believe that the circle of people around him are using him for their own personal best interests and they're the ones that we should be totally on the attack against. We should be highlighting and magnifying their every action as much as possible; it's the network around him that is the true evil... he's just a deteriorated old man that is being easily manipulated by all these people catering to his ego. I want to be talking about plans for addressing all of these people and while they may get jobs on Fox News they need to become so diminished they are no longer relevant and their lives need to be made much more difficult because of what they've done I want everyone of them to be Rudy Giuliani-ed tell they're broke and crying on Fox News.
Spot on. t-Rump truly was too lazy to bother learning what he didn't know. Wasn't very intelligent before the dementia became so evident. He thinks and reacts like a toddler. His narcissism makes him incredibly vulnerable to compliments and shiny gifts. He's being played like a fiddle by people who are smart and conniving, and dangerous.
Especially Steven Miller. I recall finding letters he wrote in his college newspaper (Duke University) that spoke about all the awful he is implementing now.
Listened to Bernie Sanders call to stop super intelligence that can’t be controlled by humans (and knowing the megalomaniacs developing it) makes me wish you would use your platform to call for regulation before it’s too late. The current regime is dangerous for democracy but uncontrolled AI is dangerous for humanity.
As a 23 year Navy Veteran and parent caregiver of a 100% disabled Veteran of the Iraq war: any additional time and reporting that you and your team can spare to unveil what's being done to systematically privatize (read: destroy) VA healthcare might open some more independent voters' eyes. An in-depth synopsis of all that's not being done to support our active duty forces and their families -- not only in Trump's undeclared war on a whim but also elsewhere in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., could help increase awareness of the general public and maybe even some MAGAs who love talking about how patriotic they are and know nothing. Whatever you do with these ideas - thank you for the exceptional reporting and tireless work that you and every member of your team are doing to help save this country. If it can be.
Ben, this is one of my favorites of your opinion writing. Describing how we as a nation need to stand together regardless of party, ethnicity, religion, educational or financial status. We need to be standing as one fortunate to be residing in my opinion in the best country of the world.
I wish I had words strong enough to describe the anger and horror I feel knowing that Trump and his fascist regime have cost our nation in lives lost( our servicemen and women but also as a result of DOGE/USAID). Also the waste of taxpayers’ money he has spent on his illegal/illegitimate war, on his atrocious vanity projects, his trashy gilded redecorating in the Oval Office, etc. and all the while “we the people” are suffering. I’m angry that school children are hungry because he did away wish school breakfast and lunch programs, eliminated cancer research, cut Medicaid and Medicare, cut USAID PROGRAMS/funding, and is openly interfering with our voting rights. He instituted the ICE gestapo and their incarceration camps, AKA, concentration camps and the atrocities they commit on the immigrants, the murders that they have committed and have gotten away with. And don’t get me started on his cabinet from HELL, especially RFK Jr. Unfortunately that’s only the surface of this administration’s crimes. What don’t we know about???
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. We The People need to keep speaking up. As shocked and dismayed as I am by the Dems lack of interest in us, if We The People don't Vote Blue in Nov, in numbers too big to rig to take the Majorities back, we will have no chance of saving ourselves and Democracy.
SJS52, Thank you! Could not have said it better myself! I tried to reply earlier and somehow it ended up on a totally different comment and I could nit delete it!
Hoping for the best and that our countrymen awaken from their stupor so that we can be worthy of our presence on this little planet in the very near future! Joining ALL of our planetary partners and those off planet as well! 🙏❤️
The problem we have is a serious lack of fighters at the top. If the feckless and mealy-mouthed Jeffries and Schumer remain where they are, our opportunities to fight back after the midterms will be lost. The secret Jeffries meeting with his buddy, Jared Kushner, should be a major scandal among Democrats. Yet, he continues to parade around pretending he is some kind of leader. I fear that with those two in charge, we are going nowhere.
Schumer and Jeffries are both pro-Israel, Schumer describes himself as a protector of Israel. There doesn't seem to be anything in his priorities about Protecting We The People. That private meeting with Kushner, who is Jewish, probably wasn't about anything beneficial to We The People, either. I wrote to my entire Congressional Delegation (all Dems) to protest the IDF targeting and murdering aid workers in Gaza. Only one of them even responded by telling me "not to allow myself to become ant-semitic". Apparently murder and Genocide are ok if Israel does it; I was wrong for speaking up about it. There is an acquiesce to Israel. No scandal, no 5-alarm fire among the Dems; just selling out We The People to everyone else.
Karen the response you received telling you not to become “ anti -Semitic” infuriates me! Netanyahus actions definitely have zero to do with his Religion.
Not to offer any defense or excuse for Netanyahu, but there is the belief of "eye for an eye" which they've utilized because of Palestinians' actions on Oct 7. That in no way justifies the brutality and Genocide, murder and destruction of Gaza. Netanyahu's sense of entitlement is out of all proportion to any reality. That has driven a wedge between the Global Community and him, and with one another. Our elected officials are so invested in see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil regarding Israel that We The People are not to say anything in protest . I was labeled in a way that does not pertain to me.
You hit the nail on the head. IF any of these Democrats listened to what Ben Gvir and IDF commanders were saying, they would acknowledge the genocide happening. American doctors have returned from Gaza and said the IDF was targeting and killing Palestinian children. It infuriates me the one response to you was to say don't be antisemitic. One thing I do know. Younger voters aren't susceptible to the gaslighting. One day, these corporate AIPAC owned Dems will be voted out.
Well, let's start the ball rolling by voting to remove and replace Maghats, and Dems who don't work for We The People, in Nov. I want them all gone *now* but I understand it takes time for election rotations and generational change. We need to at least get Majorities back now so we can work from a place of power and authority.
A doctor from my area volunteered in Gaza. His descriptions were quite clear and quite awful. Don't know anyone who doesn't have access to a cell phone or computer...they should know and they DO know. It's too hard for them to allow themselves to see how wrong they've been, maybe?
Schumer will regret his support of Netanyahu...but it won't be until after his natural death, when he meets his Maker. I think I remember a nun teacher saying genocide was one of the worst sins that humans can make. Genocide is worthy of HELL.
It certainly is - one of the inner rings will be a very special place for people who are the perpetrators, and the people who look away without standing up to say its wrong.
I've not had representation in decades: all reps were republican, turned magas. Jeffries and Schumer need to bow out and let a person who actually represents us be the leaders. The FACT that Jeffries is against universal health care now tells me everything I need to know. Get them out, or we'll be losing our democratic republic within a decade, imo.
Jeffries and Schumer aren't going to bow out willingly. They are working to further the interests of yet another foreign government who never has had any business in the business of We The People. Voting Blue in Nov. in numbers to big to ignore, too big to rig, is how we get big majorities back in both Houses, so that who We The People elect have the mandate to send these failed leaders on their way out.
Thanks Ben! The "Republican Midterm Convention" is a misnomer. The Republican Party is dead. As Lindsey Graham stated so truthfully, "this is Trump's party now." Please let's all refer to the GOP as "The Trump Party" from now on, because that is exactly what it is. The Trump Party exists to serve the financial and ego trip interests of the Trump Family. Period.
Please report on the members of Congress who show up for this convention. Shine a very bright light on their words and scraping and kowtowing to the Orange Commodus. These are the very well paid MAGA scumbag con game promoters. The hardest workers for the Trump Family. They no longer work for the constituents who sent them to DC to represent their interests. They are all about helping the Trump Family steal from their own citizens back home. Hang Dippy Donny around their necks. And fully reveal their dishonor.
Yes, I'd like to know abt the attendees. They had to pay a minimum of $25000 to attend. I'd also like to see closeup pictures of individuals there watching the NFL.
Jared Kushner is a joke. If he's not an actual Russian asset, what he's doing serves the same purpose. So why, oh why, is Hakeem Jeffries meeting with him? Serious lapse of judgment, doing back-channel deals, taking bribes, Jeffries is a secret MAGA sympathizer? WTF?
Maybe they found out something we wouldn't like about Jeffries? They tend to use the whip and the cookie. If you don't respond to the cookie, they use blackmail? I've no idea. But the FACT that he decided he didn't like universal health care was all I needed to know.
Where are Jeffries and Schumer!!!!!!!!!!! Oranges Judas Twin traitors are buddy, buddy with a murderous DICKtator who is re-supplying IRAN with weapons to kill 'suckers and losers!!
What will it take for the Non-77 million brain-baked dipshits.......to take to the streets in the millions and rip this Orange shitshow to shreds!!!
Highlight the Trump Epstein bookmobile that will be parked as close to the Dallas fiasco as possible. There will be survivors and other creators there.
The future should be about dignity, healthcare, housing, good paying jobs, etc. while taxing the bejesus out of billionaires, re-establishing our prominence and good will globally and getting our old alliances to hopefully trust us again. It’s going to be a long slog but we’re here for it. Oh yeah, accountability from everything Trump on a massive scale.
If Democrats somehow don’t win the midterms, then we seriously have to discuss secession.
And maybe if we win we can force the red states to secede and stop receiving money from the blue and purple states and then the federal government can use the federal dollars that went to the red states to vastly improve services for everyone in the blue/purple states.
I know, this is a relaxing dream. But did you know that 50% of blacks live in the South--you know, the states that set speed records redistricting to strip blacks of representation?
It's a sticky situation we're in, because we can't throw vulnerable people to the red hyenas.
Thank you. This idea of breaking our country apart is what Putin is trying to do.
Maybe all that money stolen from us by the felon and his family will be frozen until the courts can determine if there are any criminals in the midst. And if guilty, that money should be paid toward our huge debt.
Great idea!! I have no idea about legalities of it, but it's a great idea!
Well said. Some of that we can do on our own...treat all others with dignity and kindness but the rest of it is institutionalize "stuff' that a nation relies on it's government for. I think most folks who have experienced being lied to in any situation from having your kids lie to you to your spouse lie and cheat on you will agree it takes time, a lot of time to rebuild that trust and it may never be as it was before the lie. So it may take a long long time for our former allies to trust us again. Is there a difference between trusting and relying on? Can we develop trade agreements and protection agreements like NATO even if the other nations don't fully trust us? Can a nation sign a trade agreement with us and say I'll agree to this with you BUT I'm doing a lot of work with other nations to protect myself in case you renege? Sort of like an abused spouse saying yes I'll try again but every month I'll be putting money in MY bank account so it will be there if you abuse me again and leaving will be easy (or at least easier). I do think most nations have faith in Americans in general but since this anomaly happened once, what's to stop it from happening again?
It is the government who is causing all of the distrust and betrayal-betrayal to other nations and betrayal to the voters who voted for trump. During the FIFA events, I got the impression that our guests really liked the Americans who they met ( and the weird food and shopping facilities).
I'm also fairly certain that people voted for trump because he promised lower prices on DAY ONE. He would start no wars(trump may not call this a war, but it sure fits the dictionary definition). He just wants to eliminate Congress' power to declare war and reduce the chance that there may be enough people who would vote against it.
I think/hope you are right. From the little I've read it does seem folks like us...just as we have no animosity towards folks in Russia (and I guess now trump and the entire GOP congress have no animosity towards putin and that regime, contrary to the feelings of the vast majority of Americans). I agree (and hope) that lots of voters did vote for him because they believed the crap about no new wars and lowering prices. What I don't get is why so many believed a person with such a history of lying....well, I do get it...I spent many years working with abused women and for so long they would believe the abuser when he said he'd never do it again, and of course he did. ..not sure what available data shows now but back then it showed it took 7-9 times of leaving for a battered spouse to not return.
Sad Pat that it takes so long for a person to leave abusers, but I’ve seen it while working in hospital and ER’s, the abuser “promises never to hurt the victim again” after beating the crap out the victim (they don’t get arrested because the victim refuses to prosecute because they are mostly scared. Thanks for your comment, brought back a sad memory!
There must sort of personality that likes abuse. Trumpers must have it. There was an interview with a farming family. The husband was pretty much fed up. The wife said," Oh, I'll wait see."
🍊💩🫏needs to pay for the school bombing. The wedding bombing. And all the boats that kegsbreath bombed.
The two fing fools, 🍊💩🫏n kegsbreath need prison time!
trump/Hegseth are getting more and more like Putin-bombs homes, schools, hospitals (seriously) and even a funeral while they were trying to bury a falling soldier!!!
It is not just the government. I go to the grocery store, standing in line I hear the stupidest comments coming out of magas mouths: 'it's Biden's fault' that the milk is so expensive. smdh
Also, the people who voted for and continue to support the felon is because they've been given the power to hate others and harm them. Some wanted to be rich as well since the felon was 'such a good businessman despite the fact that he's claimed bankruptcy 7 times, and even bankrupted his casino. lmao
He graduated from Wharton in business and yet he doesn't have the concept of tariffs down. He paid no taxes for several years because he deferred his business expenses ( losses?) from year to year. Look at Truth Social. It opened in 2022 at $82 and now as of September 2026 it's worth $9.02.
LOL I doubt when I die that I'll ever trust this country's leaders again...and I'll never trust anyone who is or was a maga. Maya doesn't have to tell me more than once. :) IF I won't trust my own government, why would our previous allies? smdh
can we convince you, Mike Hammer, to run for a major US federal office?
Ha! If I ran for anything it would be to have the power to tear down everything Trump, immediately.
You got my vote! You got the name for it too... bring it on!!!
Please! Please! First action, even before tear downs, DEPORT Elon musk!!!
Also, like # 1 should be SCOTUS reform. Most of this mess wouldn’t have happened if not for them.
I think the Democrats should create a detailed Regime Change 2026 document that details everything they will reverse after the Midterms. Hit every Project 2025 initiative that has been implemented and show the corrective action. There needs to be more attention on Project 2025 -- it's all there, about 60% has been implemented. And there should be a detailed plan to reverse it and hold people accountable for crimes (war crimes, crimes against humanity, violations of their constitutional responsibility -- and FINANCIAL CRIMES!)
Yes, and every effort must be made to increase the Supreme Court to 13. Four more justices who believe in Democracy and the Constitution are necessary to undo the fascist decisions that gave given Trump nearly unstoppable power. Also, create the law that reasserts the separation of powers and requires a DOJ completely severed from the Presidency.
While we're dreaming how about eliminating the electoral college? First term trump did not win the majority. Second term, he won both, but possibly if the close races went the other way, Kamala might have won.
How about eliminating Citizens United. That's the worst financial political decision I can think of.
Here's my ignorance. What exactly is that?
I have no problems increasing SCOTUS. They need to get rid of the shadow docket (that is not justice) and hire more judges to be able to hear all of the cases, imo. And they've needed more justices for years.
But, one could also simply put them all out to pasture and pick new ones. We'd still have to pay their salary and benefits, but they'd have NO power whatsoever, as they'd be retired by Congress.
🎯 And voter fraud needs to be called out across the country for the lie it is. There is no reason SCOTUS should ever be ruling on a) a lie or b) something the Constitution clearly defines as a responsibility of the states and congress. Why are they even ruling on this? And Democrats need to get the messages out now. If they don't know how, hire the people who know how to do this!! There are 425+ Democrats that should be doing this right now!! This is a fascist regime, stop it now!
I've been wanting democrats in the House to be split into small groups so they can really work on issues needing changing or reinstatement, or whatever.
8 to a committee would give us approximately 30 committees +/-. Each committee would be responsible for investigating a specific issue for changes, reinstatement, lies, etc. They should have been doing this all along. The democrats must call out ALL of this administration's crime, corruption and lies with facts.
Good Luck!!! Progressive action to help the people will have to clear the wall of AIPAC and corporate Dem doners.
A Bluw tidal wave is the final straw for a free USA.
Should’ve done that a long time ago, like maybe a year ago! I think no one has done anything to present a Project 26 or even thinking of 28! There’s only a couple of presidential candidates that have risen past mid-range; and that campaign starts right after the midterm (if anyone has thought that far ahead!). Anyway, imho! Thx
Agree. Many are sleep walking through this or talking as if it's a typical midterm race.
I still hear magas blaming Biden for everything, while standing in line at the grocery store. I swear magas don't take any personal responsibility. ugh
I would turn and ask how is the price of milk Biden's fault when trump has been in office 20 months. I would ask, why in trump 1.0 was the whole term Obama's fault, and it seems this term, trump 2.0 is all Biden's fault. How? What has Biden done in the last 20 months that made milk prices rise?
If the right to vote survives until 2028, I think the presidential candidate field will be a repeat of 2008; so many good qualified capable candidates that we the voters will have a tremendous burden selecting.
The problem those candidates have currently is the Senate, house and some state AG’s and Govenors being owned and controlled by AIPAC and oligarchs. The 2028 candidates have to be free of that so they can make their own decisions.
And that list of reversals has to have meat to it... attach the Committees, Special Council, etc. who are responsible to get it done.. the exact groups who should be prepping the legal basis now
The Dems have got to be specific, there is so much work to be done to even stabilize the govt... we, The People, need to know concrete plans are being set... now.
If only.
I agree, but we can't forget the issues of the American people or we will pay in 2028.
The issues of the American people point directly to the lies of the GOP. It's killing two birds with one stone in so many cases. Like the high cost of gas ties directly in to the issue of an illegal war. Voter suppression ties directly into the voter fraud lie and the president's lack of authority over elections. Etc., etc., etc.
This is brilliant. Thank you Allison.
Thank you for bringing this up!
Completely agree!
I completely agree with your ideas.
Excellent idea, Allison.
with so much to do you have to set up priorities, and begin with what is most urgent.
I think they should have been doing this the first day of the felon's term. There are over 200 democrats in the House. If they worked in small groups over the last year, there's no telling how many interesting items of interest might have come out. And hey, maybe, like the magas, they could have found an old law to reinstate to help our side. Or are there no old laws to help? Don't know, but magas seem to find them rather regularly. Oh what they could have discovered.... or had set up for if we win the midterms.
They need votes to reinstate laws, plus trumps signature. Which would never happen.
Words to describe this administration is totally incompetent and batshit crazy!
Another way of looking at it is that they are stealing our tax money to make themselves fabulously rich and using our infrastructure to satisfy their own goals (again, make themselves richer) and not using it to solve the nation's goals. I don't think they are totally incompetent, they are extremely competent at using the nation's resources for their own goals. Whether they are "batshit" crazy depends on whether you define unfettered greed and selfishness as crazy.
Thank you! It really bothers me when people say this administration is stupid or incompetent. No, they're not. They're extremely good at getting what they want.
Yes, but have a host of enablers, GOP congress and the Supreme Court.
And all the magas who voted and support this regime. Do not forget them. They made all this happen.
Money
Calculating is the word I’d use to describe tRump.
To me, it's their attitudes that make them seem stupid and incompetent. Seeing what they're getting away with, you understand they may act stupid and incompetent, but they either know what they're doing, or it's because they're following Project 2025, and those people are definitely working in the background.
Look how well they've done at overturning our democratic republic in such a short amount of time? It looks like incompetence, but the end result is exactly what the heritage house and oligarchy wanted...and of course, magas who love to hate will support him in any way.
Hey Ben, no worries on the Sunday schedule, you do you😊 my fear is Elon Musk. I hope someone is watching him! Trump seems too cool and not very worried about this election. Something is brewing.
LinnieMac: Elon worries me also, he has hundreds of tech engineers who could be breaking into voting systems across the country & messing with votes!
I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist;but I have felt that Musk & the tech bros DID mess with the last election, thus foisting the current horror show on us. They say thst it isn't possible, but i think that they did find a way and we'd better find out how or we'll get these monsters again
Agree 100%!
Extensive information now exist thru analysis, detailed studies, university compilations of state information and high level computer gurus dissecting individual state voter results that overwhelming evidence shows 2024 vote counts were changed and manipulated.
Elon thru starlink was able to penetrate the link from county to state data banks and added counties loaded with Trump votes, like he added BurkeCounty in Florida. He added votes and counties in other swing states to assure Trump the electoral college.
And of course, democrats nor VP Harris demanded recounts. Not sure if it would have helped, but their decision angered me.
Agree, 2024 election, my paper vote had been rejected by the voting machine 3 times before it finally went through and I could leave the polling area. I’m not a conspiracy theorist either, but I’m still not sure if my vote was counted for the candidate I selected!
They do not manipulate at the county precinct voting machine level, they figured out in 2024 how to change votes in computer uploading of data from county to state.
Elon has an attribute that is missing from most of the Dem leaders: ruthlessness. Tie his no-limits means to unscrupulous, amoral self interest ends. Elon and his pals (including the Russian mafia headed by Vlad) can use manipulation and bribes and payoffs (using the money they stole from us) to grab even more power. The DNC is holding back while they could be crushing the bad guys with truth. Why?
Totally agree, DeBurgh. Democrats have to stop playing "nice" and "polite" because it definitely isn't working.
Good question.
It does feel like when the kids are too quiet
Good perception. The primaries are over so the Elon boys final names to develop vote counts in each state.
So is there any way to stop them?
Do not rely on electronic data transfers. From precinct level up, the vote counts need to be phoned in with both party’s having verifiers at every location
I think we are all giving Trump too much credit because I truly believe that the circle of people around him are using him for their own personal best interests and they're the ones that we should be totally on the attack against. We should be highlighting and magnifying their every action as much as possible; it's the network around him that is the true evil... he's just a deteriorated old man that is being easily manipulated by all these people catering to his ego. I want to be talking about plans for addressing all of these people and while they may get jobs on Fox News they need to become so diminished they are no longer relevant and their lives need to be made much more difficult because of what they've done I want everyone of them to be Rudy Giuliani-ed tell they're broke and crying on Fox News.
Spot on. t-Rump truly was too lazy to bother learning what he didn't know. Wasn't very intelligent before the dementia became so evident. He thinks and reacts like a toddler. His narcissism makes him incredibly vulnerable to compliments and shiny gifts. He's being played like a fiddle by people who are smart and conniving, and dangerous.
Especially Steven Miller. I recall finding letters he wrote in his college newspaper (Duke University) that spoke about all the awful he is implementing now.
Listened to Bernie Sanders call to stop super intelligence that can’t be controlled by humans (and knowing the megalomaniacs developing it) makes me wish you would use your platform to call for regulation before it’s too late. The current regime is dangerous for democracy but uncontrolled AI is dangerous for humanity.
Agree.
This is going to sound weird, but I believe Artificial Intelligence is the antichrist the Catholic Church taught me.
Ben,
As a 23 year Navy Veteran and parent caregiver of a 100% disabled Veteran of the Iraq war: any additional time and reporting that you and your team can spare to unveil what's being done to systematically privatize (read: destroy) VA healthcare might open some more independent voters' eyes. An in-depth synopsis of all that's not being done to support our active duty forces and their families -- not only in Trump's undeclared war on a whim but also elsewhere in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., could help increase awareness of the general public and maybe even some MAGAs who love talking about how patriotic they are and know nothing. Whatever you do with these ideas - thank you for the exceptional reporting and tireless work that you and every member of your team are doing to help save this country. If it can be.
C.A. Walker, CAPT, USN (Ret.)
Spot on, CAPT, USN (Ret.) and thank you for your service.
Let it be known your efforts and passion are greatly appreciated by all of the Meidas Mighty, Ben
Totally agree, Paul!
Ben, this is one of my favorites of your opinion writing. Describing how we as a nation need to stand together regardless of party, ethnicity, religion, educational or financial status. We need to be standing as one fortunate to be residing in my opinion in the best country of the world.
I wish I had words strong enough to describe the anger and horror I feel knowing that Trump and his fascist regime have cost our nation in lives lost( our servicemen and women but also as a result of DOGE/USAID). Also the waste of taxpayers’ money he has spent on his illegal/illegitimate war, on his atrocious vanity projects, his trashy gilded redecorating in the Oval Office, etc. and all the while “we the people” are suffering. I’m angry that school children are hungry because he did away wish school breakfast and lunch programs, eliminated cancer research, cut Medicaid and Medicare, cut USAID PROGRAMS/funding, and is openly interfering with our voting rights. He instituted the ICE gestapo and their incarceration camps, AKA, concentration camps and the atrocities they commit on the immigrants, the murders that they have committed and have gotten away with. And don’t get me started on his cabinet from HELL, especially RFK Jr. Unfortunately that’s only the surface of this administration’s crimes. What don’t we know about???
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. We The People need to keep speaking up. As shocked and dismayed as I am by the Dems lack of interest in us, if We The People don't Vote Blue in Nov, in numbers too big to rig to take the Majorities back, we will have no chance of saving ourselves and Democracy.
No doubt there are many skeletons that will be discovered in the years to come. :(
SJS52, Thank you! Could not have said it better myself! I tried to reply earlier and somehow it ended up on a totally different comment and I could nit delete it!
Hoping for the best and that our countrymen awaken from their stupor so that we can be worthy of our presence on this little planet in the very near future! Joining ALL of our planetary partners and those off planet as well! 🙏❤️
The problem we have is a serious lack of fighters at the top. If the feckless and mealy-mouthed Jeffries and Schumer remain where they are, our opportunities to fight back after the midterms will be lost. The secret Jeffries meeting with his buddy, Jared Kushner, should be a major scandal among Democrats. Yet, he continues to parade around pretending he is some kind of leader. I fear that with those two in charge, we are going nowhere.
Schumer and Jeffries are both pro-Israel, Schumer describes himself as a protector of Israel. There doesn't seem to be anything in his priorities about Protecting We The People. That private meeting with Kushner, who is Jewish, probably wasn't about anything beneficial to We The People, either. I wrote to my entire Congressional Delegation (all Dems) to protest the IDF targeting and murdering aid workers in Gaza. Only one of them even responded by telling me "not to allow myself to become ant-semitic". Apparently murder and Genocide are ok if Israel does it; I was wrong for speaking up about it. There is an acquiesce to Israel. No scandal, no 5-alarm fire among the Dems; just selling out We The People to everyone else.
Karen the response you received telling you not to become “ anti -Semitic” infuriates me! Netanyahus actions definitely have zero to do with his Religion.
Not to offer any defense or excuse for Netanyahu, but there is the belief of "eye for an eye" which they've utilized because of Palestinians' actions on Oct 7. That in no way justifies the brutality and Genocide, murder and destruction of Gaza. Netanyahu's sense of entitlement is out of all proportion to any reality. That has driven a wedge between the Global Community and him, and with one another. Our elected officials are so invested in see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil regarding Israel that We The People are not to say anything in protest . I was labeled in a way that does not pertain to me.
You hit the nail on the head. IF any of these Democrats listened to what Ben Gvir and IDF commanders were saying, they would acknowledge the genocide happening. American doctors have returned from Gaza and said the IDF was targeting and killing Palestinian children. It infuriates me the one response to you was to say don't be antisemitic. One thing I do know. Younger voters aren't susceptible to the gaslighting. One day, these corporate AIPAC owned Dems will be voted out.
Well, let's start the ball rolling by voting to remove and replace Maghats, and Dems who don't work for We The People, in Nov. I want them all gone *now* but I understand it takes time for election rotations and generational change. We need to at least get Majorities back now so we can work from a place of power and authority.
I believe they know.
A doctor from my area volunteered in Gaza. His descriptions were quite clear and quite awful. Don't know anyone who doesn't have access to a cell phone or computer...they should know and they DO know. It's too hard for them to allow themselves to see how wrong they've been, maybe?
Schumer will regret his support of Netanyahu...but it won't be until after his natural death, when he meets his Maker. I think I remember a nun teacher saying genocide was one of the worst sins that humans can make. Genocide is worthy of HELL.
It certainly is - one of the inner rings will be a very special place for people who are the perpetrators, and the people who look away without standing up to say its wrong.
I've not had representation in decades: all reps were republican, turned magas. Jeffries and Schumer need to bow out and let a person who actually represents us be the leaders. The FACT that Jeffries is against universal health care now tells me everything I need to know. Get them out, or we'll be losing our democratic republic within a decade, imo.
Jeffries and Schumer aren't going to bow out willingly. They are working to further the interests of yet another foreign government who never has had any business in the business of We The People. Voting Blue in Nov. in numbers to big to ignore, too big to rig, is how we get big majorities back in both Houses, so that who We The People elect have the mandate to send these failed leaders on their way out.
Thanks Ben! The "Republican Midterm Convention" is a misnomer. The Republican Party is dead. As Lindsey Graham stated so truthfully, "this is Trump's party now." Please let's all refer to the GOP as "The Trump Party" from now on, because that is exactly what it is. The Trump Party exists to serve the financial and ego trip interests of the Trump Family. Period.
Please report on the members of Congress who show up for this convention. Shine a very bright light on their words and scraping and kowtowing to the Orange Commodus. These are the very well paid MAGA scumbag con game promoters. The hardest workers for the Trump Family. They no longer work for the constituents who sent them to DC to represent their interests. They are all about helping the Trump Family steal from their own citizens back home. Hang Dippy Donny around their necks. And fully reveal their dishonor.
Yes, I'd like to know abt the attendees. They had to pay a minimum of $25000 to attend. I'd also like to see closeup pictures of individuals there watching the NFL.
I think it was Cruz who wrote and told me that Texas had elected Trump, so he Ted Cruz represented Trump. smdh
Lyin' Ted is not a special case. He's one of many former opponents, now boot lickers, on Dipshit/Dippy Donny's insult list.
Google AI: List the insult names Trump has used against his opponents.
"2016 Republican Primary Opponents
Low Energy Jeb – Jeb Bush
Little Marco (or Liddle' Marco) – Marco Rubio
Lyin' Ted – Ted Cruz
[1] (https://rollcall.com/2018/08/02/top-10-trump-nicknames-and-why-they-stick-to-his-foes/),
[2] (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/trump-nicknames.html)2016 and
2020 Democratic Opponents
Crooked Hillary – Hillary Clinton
Crazy Bernie (or Basically Braindead Bernie) – Bernie Sanders
Pocahontas – Elizabeth Warren
Sleepy Joe (or Crooked Joe) – Joe Biden
Alfred E. Neuman – Pete Buttigieg
Crazy Nancy (or Nervous Nancy) – Nancy Pelosi
Shifty Schiff – Adam Schiff
[1] (https://blueprint.ucla.edu/sketch/a-lighter-look-insults/),
[2] (https://www.facebook.com/MorningJoe/posts/a-guide-to-trumps-nicknames-and-insults-about-the-2020-democratic-field/10157274928278762/)
Later Campaigns and Other Figures
Comrade Kamala (or Crazy Kamala) – Kamala Harris
Birdbrain – Nikki Haley
Ron DeSanctimonious – Ron DeSantis
Peekaboo – Letitia James
[1] (https://www.facebook.com/Maher/posts/trumps-nicknames-hbo-overtime/1091036822389853/),
[2] (https://www.facebook.com/MorningJoe/posts/a-guide-to-trumps-nicknames-and-insults-about-the-2020-democratic-field/10157274928278762/)
Jared Kushner is a joke. If he's not an actual Russian asset, what he's doing serves the same purpose. So why, oh why, is Hakeem Jeffries meeting with him? Serious lapse of judgment, doing back-channel deals, taking bribes, Jeffries is a secret MAGA sympathizer? WTF?
I think HJ may believe he can make some kind of difference.
Sure hope he can, but I doubt it knowing how Deranged Demon Kushner is.
Maybe they found out something we wouldn't like about Jeffries? They tend to use the whip and the cookie. If you don't respond to the cookie, they use blackmail? I've no idea. But the FACT that he decided he didn't like universal health care was all I needed to know.
Where are Jeffries and Schumer!!!!!!!!!!! Oranges Judas Twin traitors are buddy, buddy with a murderous DICKtator who is re-supplying IRAN with weapons to kill 'suckers and losers!!
What will it take for the Non-77 million brain-baked dipshits.......to take to the streets in the millions and rip this Orange shitshow to shreds!!!
Highlight the Trump Epstein bookmobile that will be parked as close to the Dallas fiasco as possible. There will be survivors and other creators there.