The spectacle at the military graduation merely demonstrated Donald’s lack of respect for his audience, the institution, and American values. Speaking about trophy wives, Al Capone and his electoral victories do not constitute a meaningful speech to our best and brightest. It’s time to put a 72 hour hold on this guy for a mental competency exam.
Even worse was the way Bloomberg and NYT headlined the story massive sane washing It has gotten to the point where Corporate media is covering up the fact that trump has full blown Dementia specifically Fronto Temporal Dementia the question is why what are they or their corporate bosses needing to get the government to do that they believe stroking trumps ego will get it done all of the networks are doing it ABC NBC CBS CNN add Bloomberg,WaPo,NYT every one of them is lying to their viewers and readers if you watch a trump speech then see a news report or read an article you will not know what they are talking about
Mainstream Press is sane washing Trump. They are not reporting on what he actually said, they are summarizing, editing out all the craziness and writing their version of what they think he meant, not what he actually said. I hope we get the foreign press to get more visibility over here stateside. They seem to to a better job of reporting when it comes to Trump.
For the truth? Check the Guardian. They didn't mince any words about what that demented soul was doing on that stage. They noted (my words, not theirs) that his mind is not on speaking terms with his body. No one is going to start the process of invoking the 25th Amendment. They are having too much fun destroying the United States and cosplaying their long held fantasies.
Have lost respect for West Point and the support of the maga party. Always looked at West Point as one of the best facilities for grooming women and men for leadership roles in America better than most. Mr. trump has certainly added a stain on West Point - like on all trump touches.
It is NOT a private university, it is a government base that happens to be a univeristy training future officers and others to have leading positions in running this country. Don't blame West Point. They didn't on their own remove books and ask him to speak, or babble. They were and are told what to do. They do not have a choice. You want to blame someone? May I suggest you channel your anger to the wet-brained alcoholic? Hegseth is the one calling the shots. Nothing like a two-bit actor destroying our armed forces.
47 has gutted US defenses and intelligence. Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard? Just waiting for act of terrorism or conflagration - 47 and Christian Nationalists will harden their power and play out their agenda / fantasies. Unclear how this plays out? Clearly, Trump supporters, South African oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel continue to parasitize the US Government via corporate shelter, tax breaks + contracts. Brilliant billionaire business minds who gamed US elections and Republicsn party in a broken dysfunctional system. Add an impotent Supreme court and very weak democratic leadership = disaster on all levels.
I wouldn't say they are trying to gut the country. The jury isn't in yet. I was responding to the West Point question. It will be interesting to see how many choose to NOT attend West Point or the other academies after the games that are being played. The incoming classes may be smaller.
As for the comment about "weak democratic leadership." It's pretty damn hard to exercise any kind of "leadership" when one is in the minority in Congress. But you know what? They are rallying - to name a few of those who are keeping the spotlight on the cosplay cabinet, Cory Booker, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett, Jim McGovern, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, would you like me to go on? They are carrying the torch. There are lots of others who are using their time in committee meetings to make sure that this faux administration is on the record for being less than capable of running the country.
The three you mentioned? One is an alcoholic and the other two are running to the title of village idiots. Of those two? One is bankrupting her agency and the other is a chronic no show. The spotlight needs to be kept on them and their antics. The engagement has just begun. Don't throw in the towel, that is their plan. One Neville Chamberlain in history is enough.
You are spot on and thank you for the response. I was just on a mini rant. I am doing everything I can to support the Democratic party and not Sleepwalk into fascism. Thank you for your comments and I agree with you on the torch bearers of the democratic party are doing a fantastic job under great and real danger.
It's hard, isn't it? Especially when you're so aware you don't have a choice. All we can do is be vocal and not allow the lies and fabrications to become our voice.
Thank you. I'm all in with the up-and-coming Jasmine Crockett; she's fearless, from TX, a lawyer, and smart as a whip. I always fast forward to the others you mentioned also at hearings just to see someone call out the MAGA BS.
Thank you for mentioning those Democrats, among others, who are rallying. Attacking Dems because you can is getting old and doesn't accomplish anything. If citizens really cared, they would pay attention and they would vote. Complaining is easy. Doing something else takes time and thought. In retirement, I have the luxury of watching clips and trolling YouTube and other media to see them in action. Unfortunately, I also have to see the idiocracy that is the Republican Party.
Thank you for the clarification. My view is worse, I would not be excited if a child or grandchild wentbto west point if the current government can destroy the great reputation they used to have. Once touched by republican party and trump.....respect and admiration disappears.
I'm sure those graduating cadets - brand new second lieutenants - and all the cadets in the audience knew very well that they were being used as props for Dumpy to give a campaign speech. Yes, some of them might be MAGAts and were thrilled, but not many. Most of them saw the BS for what it was.
I don't know that West Point has any choice in this. It's a government institution to train military officers. Like it or not, Trump does have the title of Commander in Chief.
then, USA might as well have timmcveigh to be a "commander-in-chief", what's a big difference between tRumputin and timmcveigh, 'cept the financial one, I guess........
Tell a senator to start with, 202 225 3121 will get you any senator or house member! Call them! Especially the twerp Johnson, gym Jordan, comer, the real up trump’s ass group!
I'm calling my Senators and Rep every day. Why is anyone avoiding this? It's easy and it takes about 5 minutes. 5 Calls (https://5calls.org) even writes the script for you. Try it.
My Representative's website forces you to enter your address 3 times before you can email him. The website is designed to make it difficult to contact him, with captchas that don't work sometimes, ect.
I suggest that you go to the website of senators that are known to be on the fence about the big beautiful Bill including Josh hawley, Rand paul, Lisa murkowski, and others. You can look it up on chat GPT or Gemini AI. I was able to write seven Senators through their website and it took me about less than 10 minutes.
I just have repeatedly said that I contact everyone that I possibly can! This is extremely serious to me! We are losing our Constitution! The Supreme Court has abandoned us! I am going EVERYTHING I CAN!!! May I ask, are you doing everything YOU can????
Sometimes I get emails, but they completely ignore the questions I raised, and just say it's a pleasure to work in their position. I get "no comment" kind of emails
Yes, I do get some answers. Senator Mike Lee's assistant laughed in my face when I was telling him how I felt. I asked him to please ask Senator Lee to search his conscience and obey his Oath of Office. The assistant treated me rudely, said he and Senator Lee were very proud of this bill. I asked and he felt he had done a great job. Senator Mike Lee is an extreme MAGA and has his lips stitched to Trump's ass for years. I left my phone number and asked to have Senator call me back, because I wanted to talk to him. As of this writing, I haven't heard anything.
Sometimes I get actual staffers, who mostly don't say anything. I always tell them that they need to seriously think about who they are working for, since those Congresspeople are giving away their future with their support for trumpian policies. Sometimes I get a canned email response weeks later, full of BS. And, many times I get nothing. But I still try.
A Call from One American Grandma to Another: Stand Up for Our Families
My fellow Americans,
Especially my beloved grandmothers—
We’ve seen hard times before, and we’ve held our families together through them. We’ve rolled up our sleeves, dried tears, baked bread from scratch, and made every dollar stretch. But now, we’re facing a new kind of hardship—one quietly disguised as policy: devastating tariffs that will cause prices to skyrocket and shelves to empty. And who will feel it most? Our children and their children.
These new tariffs aren’t just numbers on a trade spreadsheet. They are a direct hit to the kitchen tables of young families already struggling to make ends meet.
A bag of diapers could cost more—while wages stay the same.
A can of baby formula or a pack of wipes might become harder to find—because components are stuck in a tariff trap.
Everyday basics like pasta, beans, or a box of cereal will creep up in cost—while young parents are told to “tighten their belts.”
This is not just policy. This is pain at the register.
And while millionaires and billionaires won’t flinch, the single mom pushing a cart with a toddler and a newborn will.
I’m asking us—the grandmothers, the wise ones, the anchors of our families—to raise our voices peacefully but powerfully. We know what sacrifice looks like. We know how to stand up when something isn’t right.
Let’s write.
Let’s call.
Let’s march.
Let’s post.
Let’s share the truth that’s being swept under the rug.
Because these tariffs aren’t about strength—they’re about control.
They’re not making us safer—they’re making our groceries more expensive and our future more uncertain.
We must remind this country what democracy really looks like.
It looks like grandmothers speaking up.
It looks like families standing together.
It looks like peaceful resistance for the sake of those yet to grow strong enough to fight for themselves.
We are the memory keepers and the truth tellers. Let’s be the protectors now.
and others, all I can is repeat what I already said - tRumputin is tasked by terrorist putin of russia and his generally antiAmerican, antiModernWest, anti-human satellites to make a largest extermination camp in humankind's history of USA where especially mass rapes will have been perpetrated before sadistic murders!! that might sound unthinkable but it's not at all - if you allow that bestial, unspeakable, monstrously perverse evil of tRumputin-his entire cabal of terrorists to go on any longer!! All the NONtRumputinist and ANTItRumputinist Americans, you simply must rise up and topple the murderously quisling terrorist tRumputin&his entire reign of terrorists, before it gets too late!!
Let me say again - tRumputin is a 34 counts convicted criminal, felon, rapist and close to 60 additional counts more indicted criminal of even worse crimes against USA and the world who, unprecedented in the entire history of USA and the world, ran the scam of second “presidency” through the "elections" of 2024 which he stole, only to avoid the prison that was awaiting him!! We have to keep these ugly facts about the criminal tRumputin in mind whenever referring to him!! Therefore, he must be always morally and psychologically delegitimized, disempowered from any other title than - the chief-criminal-felon-and-quisling - and never ever to be called “president”!! We must break him and make his every moment of existence the nightmare for him&his cult of death until we also formally oust him and punish him!! Also, good NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans, know that the tRump's-eVIlonmusk's-jdvance's-mikejohnson's-petehegseth's-stephenmiller's-pambondi's-russvought's-tulsigabbard's-kashpatel's-oz's... entire reign of terror is/are terrorists' putin's-mbs's-taliban's-netanyahu's-kahanist-ramzankadyrov's agents who are explicitly tasked by these terrorists to, literally, destroy USA! USA is like the American airplanes of 9.11.2001 hijacked by alqaida terrorists i.e. tRumputin reign of terror. This is the sense of urgency all, I repeat, all NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans must have, so, act accordingly, I repeat, act accordingly!
Like I've said already - the quisling pos tRumputin is NOT a normal American president (I mean - he's unthinkable of a concept to be even called potus, his terrorist-serving mush of the brain is even crazier!!) and he must NOT be normalized in any way!! his only ID photo is the prison mugshot of him taken at Fulton County Jail, GA and his only number is the prison inmate code-number issued to him at Fulton County Jail, GA!! Therefore, good NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans, act accordingly!!
d.j. trump is already diagnosed by the World Mental Health Organization experts as extremely UNFIT for office, extremely malignant narcissist, extremely sociopathic. he is the most dangerous yet the most senselessly over-empowered individual in the world!! OUST him&his entire reign of terror from power NOW!! And, INVESTIGATE AND AUDIT the nov. 2024 "elections" because that 2024 "election" was the real steal!!
the neo-nazi-fascist-stalinist so-called "russian traditionalist world" of aleksandr dugin-stalin-putin-their western quisling satellites of death cult called "rapture" combined with jihadists and kahanists-netanyahu, again, combined with the crazy big tech broligarchs is - the only single thing that tRumputin&his cult like, love and care about!! it is the deadliest ever cult in the history of the world - a coalition of end-of-the world apocalyptic suicide and homicide religious terrorists WITH the nihilist kakistocratic big tech crazy quasi-"entrepreneur" maniacs such as eVIlon-thiel-yarvin etc... who think they can conquer the Milky Way galaxy!! Folks, you must nip that totalitarian-religious-nihilistic evil in the bud!! Folks, you must disempower with all and by all means that monstrously evil autocratic terroristic quasi-religious and quasi-technocratic alliance of the end-of-the-world apocalyptic maniacs!!
Every day, more of us are joining your efforts. I see that independent media is cutting through the distractions created by social media algorithms and the sell-outs of corporate media.
Your efforts are not wasted! My mother used to work in a congressional office and they do tally every call. Your representatives do need to know how you feel. Nothing will change overnight, but they need to know how many people are against what’s going on. Please do not give up. That’s what the fascists want us to do.
If Fetterman doesn't want to do his job, he should damn well resign and let Shapiro appoint someone who isn't bored by being a senator. I actually donated a few bucks to his campaign. Not one dime more - fooled me once but not again.
And Giuliani wants to be a special counsel? Um, OK, whenever he's sober, which is never.
I was psyched when Fetterman got elected. Now, not so much. If he's having psychological issues he should resign and focus on his health. If he can't handle the demands of being a Senator, then he should get out before things get worse. No shame in looking out for your mental health.
For sure. Have never been a big fan, is this the best type of leadership the Democrats can produce? Quite pathetic and sad, Shapiro should get him out and put in somebody that's able to work and competent. I don't lack empathy we just need leadership that is on fire right now and Mr fetterman is not that
I used to like fetterman to the point I wondered was he too good to be true considering the mostly underdeveloped western PA... and it turned out, yep, he was too "good" to be true.
I still can't wrap my head around how is it even possible that a person can have so many different personalities inside oneself. was it his dishonesty, hypocrisy or so-called dissociative personality disorder.....
Did Fetterman not understand that his six figure job does require that he actually show up for those hearings and votes? Is having town halls so that hos constituents have a chance to share their opinions?
Right! So sorry if you don't like your job, Fetterman, even after they've made accommodations for you. If it's that boring and onerous, quit. There's too much at stake for the rest of us!
"The voting patterns of university professors...." Uh, what? Vance is claiming he knows how individual university professors vote? And what, exactly, does that have to do with anything? They aren't sufficiently loyal to Dear Leader, I suppose. And thus it is OK to target them and their universities for destruction. Got it.
Vance is a DEI. Up until now, all the top law schools set aside a percentage of their classes for veterans. He can say he was on the Law Review - he was a fact checker. - he wasn't even trusted to write or proof articles. After the stupidity this regime is engaged in? I bet those top schools are rethinking their "patriotism." I really don't know how Vance stands upright. He is spineless.
Trumps despicable West Point appearance escapes the corporate media who normalize, ignore or sane wash his behavior.
What kind of a guy wears a baseball cap with a suit to a military commencement? Other than a 1960s football coach, it’s somebody who’s very worried about his hair.
Imagine how Zelenskyy wasn't dressed appropriately but Mr. Full Time Golfer/Loser Felon wears a politically charged baseball cap and legacy media praises his speech. Fuck these fascist and fascist-enabling scumbags.
I wondered about that. Didn’t think about his thinning dyed hair ‘blowin’ in the wind’—I think you nailed it. & what was with the pink tie?? Totally deluded.
That tie was astounding; not very "manly" as the maggots define it ... and what a clash with the red hat, which could also offend many gay men who are known for their impeccable dress and taste.
Anat Shenkar-Osorio recommends using "Maga Murder Budget". I think both are better than using a variation of "big beautiful bill" because it just uses their framing and reminds people of their term.
Perhaps we could revisit Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and suggest they dispense euthanasia drugs to those condemned to die a slow death from lack of health care. I'd like to see an updated version on the opinion page of a major newspaper, but doubt it would ever see the light of day.
The bright Sen. Rand Paul finally realizes that Dump is really the Emperor [that] has no clothes and that somebody has to stand up? Hey Senator, how about calling all of your GOP Reps in the House!
Kelly Cocamamie, with her cosplay cross necklace, announces her wishes for a special counsel days after Biden announced stage four metastatic cancer. Oh, the Christianity. 😒
Why aren't any of the new weaponized protections of the President, available to Joe Biden. Since they cant just leave him the hell alone ,maybe he should sue someone.
When Jim Henson was eighteen, he constructed Kermit from a spring-green wool jacket of his mother’s. As a one-time poor kid who’d sewed from remnants, I recall that Jim created this beloved classic from a castoff garment. Riley Gaines never made an individual podium finish for Kentucky. In her famous swim against Lia Thomas, they initially tied for fourth.
Maybe Riley Gaines’ British husband really isn’t all that into her (“Bye, luv!”). She tried to squeeze pathos out of the fact that his green card was delayed by his refusal to get a Covid vaxx.
It is all so depressing and since I live in Delaware, I can't begin to imagine what it is like for decent people living under red oppression. And that is exactly what it is Putin style oppression.
I'm a former Delawarean...well I'll always be a Delawarean who now lives in the politically godforsaken state of Missouri. I grew up near Claymont (had friends who went to Archmere just as Biden was graduating. When I got out of graduate school I moved to PA just over the state line and I used to drive by the intersection where his wife and daughter were killed on my way to work for the Great State of Delaware). I grew up loving horses, and land was cheap in Missouri so I moved. But I am homesick most of the time, even though Delaware today is not much like the Delaware I left 45 years ago. I will tell you how it is to live under red oppression....I am in a 99% maga county where folks consider violence a fine reaction to a situation they do not like. I cannot express my discontent with trump for fear of retaliation. I now have a horse sanctuary and have to rely on the local vet and if I were to "come out" as a Democrat he would suddenly be too busy to see my horses and there are no other vets within 50-80 miles and I don't know if any of them would see me and for sure they would not make farm calls. I have overheard conversations about burning down the barn of a Biden/Harris supporter and/or shooting their livestock. My grandchildren have heard classmates threaten to beat up anyone who supported Biden. Fortunately I'm a bit of an introvert and am sort of ok with having no friends. But part of my being ok is because of Meidas Touch and being in touch even just through the computer with like minded persons. I cannot afford to move anywhere else (as I said, land is cheap here). Weirdly when I moved here this was a democratic area. As jobs became scarer for educated persons I think they moved out and the uneducated evangelical christians moved in. I made a promise to my horses that I would always keep them safe and even though many would say they are "just" horses, to me a promise is a promise, so here I stay.
Hi Pat, keep taking care of your lucky horses( to have you) I live in Columbia,Mo and just yesterday my husband said we are lucky to live in this town, but I know what you mean about the rural spots. Truman wouldn't be happy. Bless you and your horses .
What you describe has happened before. Timothy Egan wrote a book about it: Fever In the Heartland," as did David Zuchinno (Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy).
Very, very scary times. Your horses are more worthy and decent than so many human beings.
Thank you for the kind words about my horses!! They are rescues and a few quite old for horses but I sure love them! And I agree that they are more decent and honest that so many human beings!
I've aways had cats so I understand your devotion. If you are interested in what is going on in your home state to protect our democracy, at least here in Delaware, visit my Substack at Michele's Substack. I think you may be proud of your home state.
Just knowing you elected Sarah McBride makes me very very proud! I get very homesick when I check out her posts on facebook even though Delaware is nothing like it was when I left (or at least Wilmington) and I know I am mostly "homesick" for my past and the wonderful life I had till age 29 when I moved here. For me a really weird thing is that I've been gone longer than about half the folks in Delaware have been alive (and likewise I've been here in MO longer than the majority of folks in the county where I live).
The spectacle at the military graduation merely demonstrated Donald’s lack of respect for his audience, the institution, and American values. Speaking about trophy wives, Al Capone and his electoral victories do not constitute a meaningful speech to our best and brightest. It’s time to put a 72 hour hold on this guy for a mental competency exam.
Even worse was the way Bloomberg and NYT headlined the story massive sane washing It has gotten to the point where Corporate media is covering up the fact that trump has full blown Dementia specifically Fronto Temporal Dementia the question is why what are they or their corporate bosses needing to get the government to do that they believe stroking trumps ego will get it done all of the networks are doing it ABC NBC CBS CNN add Bloomberg,WaPo,NYT every one of them is lying to their viewers and readers if you watch a trump speech then see a news report or read an article you will not know what they are talking about
When Kermit the Frog gives a more coherent, compelling commencement speech that POTUS, we're in serious fucking trouble. Leave Kermit alone, btw!
Tim: I completely agree with you.
Mainstream Press is sane washing Trump. They are not reporting on what he actually said, they are summarizing, editing out all the craziness and writing their version of what they think he meant, not what he actually said. I hope we get the foreign press to get more visibility over here stateside. They seem to to a better job of reporting when it comes to Trump.
For the truth? Check the Guardian. They didn't mince any words about what that demented soul was doing on that stage. They noted (my words, not theirs) that his mind is not on speaking terms with his body. No one is going to start the process of invoking the 25th Amendment. They are having too much fun destroying the United States and cosplaying their long held fantasies.
MSNBC is honest!
And sadly they are alone among the mainstream media.
Perhaps we need to be emailing mainstream media and telling them we know what they are doing and we will point out their lies?
Headlines like the one mentioned here are why I cancelled my NYT subscription.
Exactly my reaction.
The integrity of corporate media went away with consolidations and mergers.
Just follow the money ... like the Trumpster, it taints everything it touches.
that being said,
https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-trump/contributors?id=N00023864
$$$.
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kim is spam, do not click on her link, pls report her
I thought so. I see that post quite often on Meidas Touch.
Reported Kim's post twice now. She has posted the exact same thing on other Substack channels.
she (it?) is everywhere
Have lost respect for West Point and the support of the maga party. Always looked at West Point as one of the best facilities for grooming women and men for leadership roles in America better than most. Mr. trump has certainly added a stain on West Point - like on all trump touches.
It is NOT a private university, it is a government base that happens to be a univeristy training future officers and others to have leading positions in running this country. Don't blame West Point. They didn't on their own remove books and ask him to speak, or babble. They were and are told what to do. They do not have a choice. You want to blame someone? May I suggest you channel your anger to the wet-brained alcoholic? Hegseth is the one calling the shots. Nothing like a two-bit actor destroying our armed forces.
47 has gutted US defenses and intelligence. Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard? Just waiting for act of terrorism or conflagration - 47 and Christian Nationalists will harden their power and play out their agenda / fantasies. Unclear how this plays out? Clearly, Trump supporters, South African oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel continue to parasitize the US Government via corporate shelter, tax breaks + contracts. Brilliant billionaire business minds who gamed US elections and Republicsn party in a broken dysfunctional system. Add an impotent Supreme court and very weak democratic leadership = disaster on all levels.
I wouldn't say they are trying to gut the country. The jury isn't in yet. I was responding to the West Point question. It will be interesting to see how many choose to NOT attend West Point or the other academies after the games that are being played. The incoming classes may be smaller.
As for the comment about "weak democratic leadership." It's pretty damn hard to exercise any kind of "leadership" when one is in the minority in Congress. But you know what? They are rallying - to name a few of those who are keeping the spotlight on the cosplay cabinet, Cory Booker, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett, Jim McGovern, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, would you like me to go on? They are carrying the torch. There are lots of others who are using their time in committee meetings to make sure that this faux administration is on the record for being less than capable of running the country.
The three you mentioned? One is an alcoholic and the other two are running to the title of village idiots. Of those two? One is bankrupting her agency and the other is a chronic no show. The spotlight needs to be kept on them and their antics. The engagement has just begun. Don't throw in the towel, that is their plan. One Neville Chamberlain in history is enough.
You are spot on and thank you for the response. I was just on a mini rant. I am doing everything I can to support the Democratic party and not Sleepwalk into fascism. Thank you for your comments and I agree with you on the torch bearers of the democratic party are doing a fantastic job under great and real danger.
It's hard, isn't it? Especially when you're so aware you don't have a choice. All we can do is be vocal and not allow the lies and fabrications to become our voice.
Thank you. I'm all in with the up-and-coming Jasmine Crockett; she's fearless, from TX, a lawyer, and smart as a whip. I always fast forward to the others you mentioned also at hearings just to see someone call out the MAGA BS.
Thank you for mentioning those Democrats, among others, who are rallying. Attacking Dems because you can is getting old and doesn't accomplish anything. If citizens really cared, they would pay attention and they would vote. Complaining is easy. Doing something else takes time and thought. In retirement, I have the luxury of watching clips and trolling YouTube and other media to see them in action. Unfortunately, I also have to see the idiocracy that is the Republican Party.
I don't buy the brilliant part. It doesn't take much to take advantage of situations, especially when there are no consequences.
Thank you for the clarification. My view is worse, I would not be excited if a child or grandchild wentbto west point if the current government can destroy the great reputation they used to have. Once touched by republican party and trump.....respect and admiration disappears.
I'm sure those graduating cadets - brand new second lieutenants - and all the cadets in the audience knew very well that they were being used as props for Dumpy to give a campaign speech. Yes, some of them might be MAGAts and were thrilled, but not many. Most of them saw the BS for what it was.
A DRUNKEN two-bit anchor at that.
And, from his tattoos, a white supremacist.
ABSOLUTELY, Carol-Ann!
I don't know that West Point has any choice in this. It's a government institution to train military officers. Like it or not, Trump does have the title of Commander in Chief.
then, USA might as well have timmcveigh to be a "commander-in-chief", what's a big difference between tRumputin and timmcveigh, 'cept the financial one, I guess........
Tell a senator to start with, 202 225 3121 will get you any senator or house member! Call them! Especially the twerp Johnson, gym Jordan, comer, the real up trump’s ass group!
202 225 3121. CALL CALL
I'm calling my Senators and Rep every day. Why is anyone avoiding this? It's easy and it takes about 5 minutes. 5 Calls (https://5calls.org) even writes the script for you. Try it.
None of them are taking calls, phone machines have been turned off! Clearly, they don't want to hear from us!
My Representative's website forces you to enter your address 3 times before you can email him. The website is designed to make it difficult to contact him, with captchas that don't work sometimes, ect.
Yes, I have run into that as well. But you can bypass that by calling.
Grrrrr...
I suggest that you go to the website of senators that are known to be on the fence about the big beautiful Bill including Josh hawley, Rand paul, Lisa murkowski, and others. You can look it up on chat GPT or Gemini AI. I was able to write seven Senators through their website and it took me about less than 10 minutes.
Have their numbers in my contacts. I have worked with Indivisible for years.
Thank you for working so hard it certainly is needed now more than ever!
I just have repeatedly said that I contact everyone that I possibly can! This is extremely serious to me! We are losing our Constitution! The Supreme Court has abandoned us! I am going EVERYTHING I CAN!!! May I ask, are you doing everything YOU can????
Daily calling, donations to the Good Guys/Gals, postcards, protests, etc. Indivisible and 5 Calls and Jessica Craven (https://chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com) are very helpful.
I have. I mentioned earlier I have all contact information.
My I ask you - did you get any feedback that they ever merely read what you wrote to them....
Sometimes I get emails, but they completely ignore the questions I raised, and just say it's a pleasure to work in their position. I get "no comment" kind of emails
Yes, I do get some answers. Senator Mike Lee's assistant laughed in my face when I was telling him how I felt. I asked him to please ask Senator Lee to search his conscience and obey his Oath of Office. The assistant treated me rudely, said he and Senator Lee were very proud of this bill. I asked and he felt he had done a great job. Senator Mike Lee is an extreme MAGA and has his lips stitched to Trump's ass for years. I left my phone number and asked to have Senator call me back, because I wanted to talk to him. As of this writing, I haven't heard anything.
Sometimes I get actual staffers, who mostly don't say anything. I always tell them that they need to seriously think about who they are working for, since those Congresspeople are giving away their future with their support for trumpian policies. Sometimes I get a canned email response weeks later, full of BS. And, many times I get nothing. But I still try.
They (politicians) say they keep a tally of phone comments. I hope that's true.
All 3 of mine are taking calls--voicemails, but better than nothing. All 3 have alternate numbers for local offices.
It's worthwhile making the call just for the annoyance factor!
And to increase your influence; they do pay attention to large numbers of constituent dissenters.
He's celebrated and adored for his malignant narcissism and lack of humanity.
Wake up and organise now. It's time to overthrow this rogue regime.
June 6th support veterans protests
https://substack.com/@1stcavalrygal/note/c-119931859?r=3cubt1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
And instead of having the most hearts, your best comment thus far is barely hearted at all.....
Thank God for the European newspapers telling the truth about Trump’s West Point rant. As usual, the N Y Times is worthless!
So is CBS. Their headline about his speech was total gaslighting!
I wish we could stop the Joe 💩 talk. He is not in charge. Look at the 🍊💩! Too bad the West Point grads had to listen to a mental mess!
202 225 3121. Will reach any member of Congress! CALL n tell them that they need to get rid of trump. Couch cougar is much better!
Just call!
202 225 3121
Couch cougar isn’t any better!🤮
Couch cougar is 🤮
A Call from One American Grandma to Another: Stand Up for Our Families
My fellow Americans,
Especially my beloved grandmothers—
We’ve seen hard times before, and we’ve held our families together through them. We’ve rolled up our sleeves, dried tears, baked bread from scratch, and made every dollar stretch. But now, we’re facing a new kind of hardship—one quietly disguised as policy: devastating tariffs that will cause prices to skyrocket and shelves to empty. And who will feel it most? Our children and their children.
These new tariffs aren’t just numbers on a trade spreadsheet. They are a direct hit to the kitchen tables of young families already struggling to make ends meet.
A bag of diapers could cost more—while wages stay the same.
A can of baby formula or a pack of wipes might become harder to find—because components are stuck in a tariff trap.
Everyday basics like pasta, beans, or a box of cereal will creep up in cost—while young parents are told to “tighten their belts.”
This is not just policy. This is pain at the register.
And while millionaires and billionaires won’t flinch, the single mom pushing a cart with a toddler and a newborn will.
I’m asking us—the grandmothers, the wise ones, the anchors of our families—to raise our voices peacefully but powerfully. We know what sacrifice looks like. We know how to stand up when something isn’t right.
Let’s write.
Let’s call.
Let’s march.
Let’s post.
Let’s share the truth that’s being swept under the rug.
Because these tariffs aren’t about strength—they’re about control.
They’re not making us safer—they’re making our groceries more expensive and our future more uncertain.
We must remind this country what democracy really looks like.
It looks like grandmothers speaking up.
It looks like families standing together.
It looks like peaceful resistance for the sake of those yet to grow strong enough to fight for themselves.
We are the memory keepers and the truth tellers. Let’s be the protectors now.
With fierce love and unwavering hope,
Clarissa Bartolini Toro—an American Grandma
United by faith, family, and freedom.
This is such a beautifully powerful statement. I hope it will be shared and acted upon widely!!!
MAGA war on Christmas
MAGA war on the church
MAGA war on state rights
MAGA war on the constitution
MAGA war on religion
MAGA war on democracy
MAGA war on US military
MAGA war on U.S. law enforcement
MAGA war on capitalism
MAGA war on little girls
MAGA war on children’s toys
MAGA war on Barbie
MAGA war on the pope
MAGA war on justice
MAGA war on America
MAGA war on women.
MAGA war on libraries and books.
MAGA war on education.
MAGA war on entertainment.
MAGA war on the poor, elderly, and disabled.
MAGA war on hungry people and the homeless.
MAGA war on immigrants.
And MAGA war on healthcare.
and others, all I can is repeat what I already said - tRumputin is tasked by terrorist putin of russia and his generally antiAmerican, antiModernWest, anti-human satellites to make a largest extermination camp in humankind's history of USA where especially mass rapes will have been perpetrated before sadistic murders!! that might sound unthinkable but it's not at all - if you allow that bestial, unspeakable, monstrously perverse evil of tRumputin-his entire cabal of terrorists to go on any longer!! All the NONtRumputinist and ANTItRumputinist Americans, you simply must rise up and topple the murderously quisling terrorist tRumputin&his entire reign of terrorists, before it gets too late!!
Let me say again - tRumputin is a 34 counts convicted criminal, felon, rapist and close to 60 additional counts more indicted criminal of even worse crimes against USA and the world who, unprecedented in the entire history of USA and the world, ran the scam of second “presidency” through the "elections" of 2024 which he stole, only to avoid the prison that was awaiting him!! We have to keep these ugly facts about the criminal tRumputin in mind whenever referring to him!! Therefore, he must be always morally and psychologically delegitimized, disempowered from any other title than - the chief-criminal-felon-and-quisling - and never ever to be called “president”!! We must break him and make his every moment of existence the nightmare for him&his cult of death until we also formally oust him and punish him!! Also, good NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans, know that the tRump's-eVIlonmusk's-jdvance's-mikejohnson's-petehegseth's-stephenmiller's-pambondi's-russvought's-tulsigabbard's-kashpatel's-oz's... entire reign of terror is/are terrorists' putin's-mbs's-taliban's-netanyahu's-kahanist-ramzankadyrov's agents who are explicitly tasked by these terrorists to, literally, destroy USA! USA is like the American airplanes of 9.11.2001 hijacked by alqaida terrorists i.e. tRumputin reign of terror. This is the sense of urgency all, I repeat, all NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans must have, so, act accordingly, I repeat, act accordingly!
Like I've said already - the quisling pos tRumputin is NOT a normal American president (I mean - he's unthinkable of a concept to be even called potus, his terrorist-serving mush of the brain is even crazier!!) and he must NOT be normalized in any way!! his only ID photo is the prison mugshot of him taken at Fulton County Jail, GA and his only number is the prison inmate code-number issued to him at Fulton County Jail, GA!! Therefore, good NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans, act accordingly!!
d.j. trump is already diagnosed by the World Mental Health Organization experts as extremely UNFIT for office, extremely malignant narcissist, extremely sociopathic. he is the most dangerous yet the most senselessly over-empowered individual in the world!! OUST him&his entire reign of terror from power NOW!! And, INVESTIGATE AND AUDIT the nov. 2024 "elections" because that 2024 "election" was the real steal!!
the neo-nazi-fascist-stalinist so-called "russian traditionalist world" of aleksandr dugin-stalin-putin-their western quisling satellites of death cult called "rapture" combined with jihadists and kahanists-netanyahu, again, combined with the crazy big tech broligarchs is - the only single thing that tRumputin&his cult like, love and care about!! it is the deadliest ever cult in the history of the world - a coalition of end-of-the world apocalyptic suicide and homicide religious terrorists WITH the nihilist kakistocratic big tech crazy quasi-"entrepreneur" maniacs such as eVIlon-thiel-yarvin etc... who think they can conquer the Milky Way galaxy!! Folks, you must nip that totalitarian-religious-nihilistic evil in the bud!! Folks, you must disempower with all and by all means that monstrously evil autocratic terroristic quasi-religious and quasi-technocratic alliance of the end-of-the-world apocalyptic maniacs!!
I have been calling and writing for months and I'm completely ignored!
Every day, more of us are joining your efforts. I see that independent media is cutting through the distractions created by social media algorithms and the sell-outs of corporate media.
Your efforts are not wasted! My mother used to work in a congressional office and they do tally every call. Your representatives do need to know how you feel. Nothing will change overnight, but they need to know how many people are against what’s going on. Please do not give up. That’s what the fascists want us to do.
I’m with you Clarissa! You spoke truth! I am protesting, calling and writing postcards.
202 225 3121 will get you any member of congress! I usually only call rethuglikkkrussians! The real trump ass kissers! We all know who they are!
202 225 3121 CALL
Good Job!! Keep speaking up and speaking out!!
If Fetterman doesn't want to do his job, he should damn well resign and let Shapiro appoint someone who isn't bored by being a senator. I actually donated a few bucks to his campaign. Not one dime more - fooled me once but not again.
And Giuliani wants to be a special counsel? Um, OK, whenever he's sober, which is never.
I was psyched when Fetterman got elected. Now, not so much. If he's having psychological issues he should resign and focus on his health. If he can't handle the demands of being a Senator, then he should get out before things get worse. No shame in looking out for your mental health.
I'm sure he doesn't want to lose the income and Prestige of the job regardless of how the American citizens and his constituents feel.
Or perhaps he needs the great healthcare coverage that Senators get.
For sure. Have never been a big fan, is this the best type of leadership the Democrats can produce? Quite pathetic and sad, Shapiro should get him out and put in somebody that's able to work and competent. I don't lack empathy we just need leadership that is on fire right now and Mr fetterman is not that
I used to like fetterman to the point I wondered was he too good to be true considering the mostly underdeveloped western PA... and it turned out, yep, he was too "good" to be true.
I still can't wrap my head around how is it even possible that a person can have so many different personalities inside oneself. was it his dishonesty, hypocrisy or so-called dissociative personality disorder.....
I thought Giuliani was disbarred.🤔
You're right. In both DC and NY.
Disbarred in DC and NY, I believe.
I'm not sure that's a requirement for an appointment as Special Counsel.
It sure ought to be!!
Or whenever he's not abusing his secretarial assistant
Did Fetterman not understand that his six figure job does require that he actually show up for those hearings and votes? Is having town halls so that hos constituents have a chance to share their opinions?
Apparently doing the actual work of a senator is extremely annoying to him.
Does Rudy even have a license to practice law any more?
And what the hell are they charging the Biden family with? It’s absolutely ridiculous!
Disbarred in DC and NY, I believe.
That’s a great suggestion. Dems will win the special election in a landslide!
Right! So sorry if you don't like your job, Fetterman, even after they've made accommodations for you. If it's that boring and onerous, quit. There's too much at stake for the rest of us!
Did he get his law license back? Unbelievable he hasn't been permanently benched as a practicing lawyer in every state of the union.
Still disbarred in DC and NY.
Permanently? I'd think the DC one would disqualify him for special counsel.
I believe the disbarments are permanent.
I hate to say it, but it's about time the world started putting sanctions on the United States for supporting Russia.
Totally so!!
"The voting patterns of university professors...." Uh, what? Vance is claiming he knows how individual university professors vote? And what, exactly, does that have to do with anything? They aren't sufficiently loyal to Dear Leader, I suppose. And thus it is OK to target them and their universities for destruction. Got it.
Vance is a DEI. Up until now, all the top law schools set aside a percentage of their classes for veterans. He can say he was on the Law Review - he was a fact checker. - he wasn't even trusted to write or proof articles. After the stupidity this regime is engaged in? I bet those top schools are rethinking their "patriotism." I really don't know how Vance stands upright. He is spineless.
vance is a couch cougar supported by Theil!
And their disgraceful crypto czar David Sacks. Both Nazis who could care less about this country, just profits and control for their dystopian agenda.
He most likely knows as Yale educated law student who used to vote that way too...
Trumps despicable West Point appearance escapes the corporate media who normalize, ignore or sane wash his behavior.
What kind of a guy wears a baseball cap with a suit to a military commencement? Other than a 1960s football coach, it’s somebody who’s very worried about his hair.
Imagine how Zelenskyy wasn't dressed appropriately but Mr. Full Time Golfer/Loser Felon wears a politically charged baseball cap and legacy media praises his speech. Fuck these fascist and fascist-enabling scumbags.
Right!
I wondered about that. Didn’t think about his thinning dyed hair ‘blowin’ in the wind’—I think you nailed it. & what was with the pink tie?? Totally deluded.
That tie was astounding; not very "manly" as the maggots define it ... and what a clash with the red hat, which could also offend many gay men who are known for their impeccable dress and taste.
to endear the f....t peter thiel....
Yeah. He was afraid the wind would blow it and funny pix of his bald spot and long comb-over would circulate on the internet.
I noticed it is thinning quite a bit. Wonder if he's taking Nutrafol?
I just saw a Democracy Labs post revive the infamous "Death Panels" term from the ACA fight, this time aimed very accurately at the GOP budget. Turnabout seems very fairplay here - Let's use it, loud and proud! https://thedemlabs.org/2025/05/25/how-republican-death-panels-kick-people-off-medicaid-with-endless-paperwork-and-bogus-work-requirements/
202 225 3121 call ANY member of Congress! Call daily!
They must hear from us, who pay their ridiculous salaries, benefits n advance stock tips.
202 225 3121. CALL any time!
Anat Shenkar-Osorio recommends using "Maga Murder Budget". I think both are better than using a variation of "big beautiful bill" because it just uses their framing and reminds people of their term.
Great resource thanks for sharing
Perhaps we could revisit Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and suggest they dispense euthanasia drugs to those condemned to die a slow death from lack of health care. I'd like to see an updated version on the opinion page of a major newspaper, but doubt it would ever see the light of day.
"Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): “The US cannot fail to respond as Putin escalates his barbaric assault on innocent Ukrainians.""
If only your congressional votes followed your conscience.
Indeed!!
The bright Sen. Rand Paul finally realizes that Dump is really the Emperor [that] has no clothes and that somebody has to stand up? Hey Senator, how about calling all of your GOP Reps in the House!
Performative nonsense. He'll fall in line. They always do under the weight of that boot.
202 225 3121 will get you any member of congress. Calling is
Easy!
He will find some other reason to say why he caved. They always do.
They always do.
Call any member of congress at
202 225 3121
Give ‘em HELL!
What a shit show. Makes my head explode!!
yep.
local news report at the West Point graduation ceremony where tRUMP gave his pathetic speech. Protesters outside protesting. See lohud.com May 24th
Kelly Cocamamie, with her cosplay cross necklace, announces her wishes for a special counsel days after Biden announced stage four metastatic cancer. Oh, the Christianity. 😒
There's no hate quite like MAGA Christian love.
Why aren't any of the new weaponized protections of the President, available to Joe Biden. Since they cant just leave him the hell alone ,maybe he should sue someone.
When Jim Henson was eighteen, he constructed Kermit from a spring-green wool jacket of his mother’s. As a one-time poor kid who’d sewed from remnants, I recall that Jim created this beloved classic from a castoff garment. Riley Gaines never made an individual podium finish for Kentucky. In her famous swim against Lia Thomas, they initially tied for fourth.
I'm really ready for Riley Gaines's 15 minutes of fame to be over. Talk about poor losers.
Maybe Riley Gaines’ British husband really isn’t all that into her (“Bye, luv!”). She tried to squeeze pathos out of the fact that his green card was delayed by his refusal to get a Covid vaxx.
It is all so depressing and since I live in Delaware, I can't begin to imagine what it is like for decent people living under red oppression. And that is exactly what it is Putin style oppression.
I'm a former Delawarean...well I'll always be a Delawarean who now lives in the politically godforsaken state of Missouri. I grew up near Claymont (had friends who went to Archmere just as Biden was graduating. When I got out of graduate school I moved to PA just over the state line and I used to drive by the intersection where his wife and daughter were killed on my way to work for the Great State of Delaware). I grew up loving horses, and land was cheap in Missouri so I moved. But I am homesick most of the time, even though Delaware today is not much like the Delaware I left 45 years ago. I will tell you how it is to live under red oppression....I am in a 99% maga county where folks consider violence a fine reaction to a situation they do not like. I cannot express my discontent with trump for fear of retaliation. I now have a horse sanctuary and have to rely on the local vet and if I were to "come out" as a Democrat he would suddenly be too busy to see my horses and there are no other vets within 50-80 miles and I don't know if any of them would see me and for sure they would not make farm calls. I have overheard conversations about burning down the barn of a Biden/Harris supporter and/or shooting their livestock. My grandchildren have heard classmates threaten to beat up anyone who supported Biden. Fortunately I'm a bit of an introvert and am sort of ok with having no friends. But part of my being ok is because of Meidas Touch and being in touch even just through the computer with like minded persons. I cannot afford to move anywhere else (as I said, land is cheap here). Weirdly when I moved here this was a democratic area. As jobs became scarer for educated persons I think they moved out and the uneducated evangelical christians moved in. I made a promise to my horses that I would always keep them safe and even though many would say they are "just" horses, to me a promise is a promise, so here I stay.
Blessings to you, Pat and your beautiful mission. Hugs!
Thank you!
Hi Pat, keep taking care of your lucky horses( to have you) I live in Columbia,Mo and just yesterday my husband said we are lucky to live in this town, but I know what you mean about the rural spots. Truman wouldn't be happy. Bless you and your horses .
Thank you! I live i Texas County. My son lives in Columbia. He is very non political but at least there are many blue folks in that town.
What you describe has happened before. Timothy Egan wrote a book about it: Fever In the Heartland," as did David Zuchinno (Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy).
Very, very scary times. Your horses are more worthy and decent than so many human beings.
Thank you for the kind words about my horses!! They are rescues and a few quite old for horses but I sure love them! And I agree that they are more decent and honest that so many human beings!
I've aways had cats so I understand your devotion. If you are interested in what is going on in your home state to protect our democracy, at least here in Delaware, visit my Substack at Michele's Substack. I think you may be proud of your home state.
Just knowing you elected Sarah McBride makes me very very proud! I get very homesick when I check out her posts on facebook even though Delaware is nothing like it was when I left (or at least Wilmington) and I know I am mostly "homesick" for my past and the wonderful life I had till age 29 when I moved here. For me a really weird thing is that I've been gone longer than about half the folks in Delaware have been alive (and likewise I've been here in MO longer than the majority of folks in the county where I live).
Nori, what you wrote to Pat Robinson was beautiful.
Just beautiful.
I love it here on Meidas Touch, it attracts the best people.
WTF is Pete Hegseth doing at the Coca-Cola 600?! Ughhhhh
Spending our money! Dickwad!
Yep. Between his travel and his mobile makeup studio, I wonder how much it cost the taxpayers for him to say "drivers, start your engines!" 🙄
Trying to sober up?