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Linda Myers's avatar

Until the convicted felon pedophile is thrown out on his ugly face, nothing will change.

jon norstog's avatar

And when he's gone, still nothing will change as long as the oligarchs are pulling the strings. They'll just find another willing puppet.

Candace Lucas's avatar

they will try but MAGA is a cult of personality and that personality is trump. There's no one that will be able to do what trump has done which is to create a massive group of people who give unquestionable loyalty. Not Vance, not Miller, not Desantis. No one. Oligarch Peter Theil found Vance but do you really think that Vance has what it takes to cause a Jan 6?

there's no one other than trump that could incite that kind of slavish devotion. Whatever it is that trump has, as repugnant as the rest of us find it, no one else has it. I believe once trump is gone, congress will stop being afraid and will be more willing to do what's right.

Jeanne Alford's avatar

I’ve been saying this all along. Without DJT they all will wither and melt, like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Looking forward to the day we have a real president again.

Emma's avatar

Let’s hope so

Kathleen M. Eisenhauer's avatar

Can’t say I agree w/you, Candace. These loyalists are there for the highest bidder for their souls. They will all leave being millionaires, and go off to right a book, or get hired by some extreme right podcast.. or our new, bought, Legacy Media!

Vance called rump ‘Hitler’ and then, became his VP w/Thiel’s backing; Miller is literally rump’s younger brother from Satan and I’m sure his 1st paycheck is from AIPAC; etc, etc, etc. Blondie is bye- bye, but doesn’t care about her law degree….she has all the blackmail info she could ever want for!

These extremists need to “pay the toll to the Angels” (Lady Gaga). Accountability is coming for these fu$kers when “We the People” support pro democracy candidates who DO Not take money from PACs or billionaires!!!!!

Carthago Delenda Est's avatar

Because Vance has no soul. He has proven that he will say/do anything in service of his own ambition. Miller is Nosferatu in (semi) human form.

I agree that when the Orange Pustule is gone (however that happens) MAGA will collapse, as the cult will have nothing to coalesce around.

Candace Lucas's avatar

yep, that's what I was trying to say in a very long-winded way. Good job making it concise.

Candace Lucas's avatar

Yes, all that’s true, and probably his cabinet will walk away millionaires. but they won’t be able to step into trumps shoes as president to lead the rank and file maga. I believe Congress, at this point, is more afraid of their maga constituents, than they are of not getting reelected because trump riles them up to the point of violence. Without trump to do that, I think enough republicans will have the courage to defy Vance or whoever tries to take his place. The movement will splinter into factions so they will lose their power.

Richard Waddell's avatar

There are cult members who are beginning to come out their hypnotized

brainless state, seeing what they did wrong...and those near them will

weaken...a slow process but nonetheless, a slow thawing of sorts. And ANY thawing like that can be helpful.

Sharon Fitzpatrick's avatar

They will look a Lot Longer and Harder for a Better Dementia Riddled Brain Dead POS Narcissist to replace him! Maybe Stephen Miller will Volunteer by stepping up! Or next in line to trump’s throne - Vance?

jon norstog's avatar

They'll keep coming up with these guys as long as they are allowed to throw their money around. Follow the money, and do something about it.

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Them and the Israeli lobbyists.

jon norstog's avatar

AIPAC has long since exceeded the legitimate uses of lobbying by (or on behalf of) foreign governments. Setting limits to lobbying activities on behalf of foreign governments is not going to be EZ. It has to be done as part of a larger effort to get big money out of American electoral politics.

Remember that on election day!

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

None of what is happening should be surprising. There is much more. Some highlights: Project 2025, Chapter 4; Department of Defense; from pp. 92-103; https://tinyurl.com/3p68fpbj

Military service is the most difficult task we ask of our citizens. … To do better … means recognizing and implementing four overriding priorities:

• Priority No. 1: Reestablish a culture of command accountability, nonpoliticization, and warfighting focus.

• Priority No. 2: Transform our armed forces for maximum effectiveness in an era of great-power competition.

• Priority No. 3: Provide necessary support to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) border protection operations.…

• Priority No. 4: Demand financial transparency and accountability.

Needed Reforms

• Prioritize a denial defense against China. U.S. defense planning should focus on China and, in particular, the effective denial defense of Taiwan.

• Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China [and] with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

• Implement nuclear modernization and expansion. The United States manifestly needs to modernize, adapt, and expand its nuclear arsenal.

• Increase allied counterterrorist burden-sharing. Transnational terrorism remains a threat to Americans even as we pivot toward Asia.

2. Prioritize enhancing the capability of allies and partners to take the lead in combating terrorism in their regions.

• Restore standards of lethality and excellence.

2. Codify language to instruct senior military officers (three and four stars) to make certain that they understand their primary duty to be ensuring the readiness of the armed forces, not pursuing a social engineering agenda.

4. Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Pam Bondi begged Trump not to fire her during dramatic White House showdown; the Daily Mail; 2-Apr-26; https://tinyurl.com/p6xz2rta (For those old enough to remember, this is the modern political version of "Peyton Place," ~ 65 years after if first appeared*)

“Attorney General Pam Bondi begged Donald Trump not to fire her in an explosive showdown at the White House after he accused her of an unforgivable offense. Trump fired Bondi on Thursday. [Todd] Blanche has been trying to align himself with Trump's top deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, vowing to pursue his agenda on immigration and has also been helping push forward Vice President JD Vance's efforts to pursue fraud, a source familiar with his efforts told the Daily Mail. MAGA faithful are skeptical of Blanche's commitment to Trump's agenda in the DOJ, but say he would be an improvement over Bondi. 'Blanche is a problem, but Bondi is worse,' one source told the Daily Mail. Blanche allies would like to see him succeed Bondi and are working furiously to convince the president to choose him, even as his staff has raised a wall of silence as jockeying for the position continues. Trump is also reportedly moving toward a wider cabinet purge, with aides said to have been polled on Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's future. Gabbard is said to have enraged the President by refusing to condemn Joe Kent at a Capitol Hill hearing - the counter-terror official who resigned last month over the Iran war. When asked about reports of Bondi's imminent firing, the President did not issue a denial of the report.”

*Peyton Place. IMDB: "People married and divorced, loved and lost. Murder, illicit passion, insanity, and secrets were the staples of Peyton Place." https://tinyurl.com/4zwwwudm was a book (1956), a movie (1957), and a primetime (night) soap opera on ABC from 1964-1969; wiki: https://tinyurl.com/yanybjjf

ajay ess's avatar

i hope the nxt (non fascist) administration will set up a new government department of reparations, manned by class-action-lawyers who will relentlessly go after every trump sycophant and get ALL their ill-gotten-gains and straight up corrupt and criminal money returned to 'we the people'.... yes, for their work they can def have a % of all the money from the civil law suits.

the dept of reparations will also go the official doj route to criminalize and incarcerate all the corrupt criminals and evil people who did donald trumps bidding...

the department will be self funding within months.

if there is the usual dem-shit idea of a 'nice-biden-style' of letting them off the hook, or a merrick garland 'extremely-slow-walking-justice' style, then wethe people will be needed to hold the dem-shits as responsible as all the repugnicans, for stealing/wasting tax payer$ on legal actions that will have zero results....

ajay ess's avatar

i hope the nxt (non fascist) administration will set up a new government department of reparations, manned by class-action-lawyers who will relentlessly go after every trump sycophant and get ALL their ill-gotten-gains and straight up corrupt and criminal money returned to 'we the people'.... yes, for their work they can def have a % of all the money from the civil law suits.

the dept of reparations will also go the official doj route to criminalize and incarcerate all the corrupt criminals and evil people who did donald trumps bidding...

the department will be self funding within months.

if there is the usual dem-shit idea of a 'nice-biden-style' of letting them off the hook, or a merrick garland 'extremely-slow-walking-justice' style, then wethe people will be needed to hold the dem-shits as responsible as all the repugnicans, for stealing/wasting tax payer$ on legal actions that will have zero results....

JaykMG's avatar

Someone needs to tell trump to his face how stupid he is being. Macros may be the guy to do it. F diplomacy this point

Madannie's avatar

HAHAHAHA, let's just guess who the dried up prune is? piggy wants war? I'm wondering if maga folks are rushing to enlist their sons and daughters into the military in SOLIDARITY with piggy. IMO the only thing that will end this shit show is his death or imprisonment. IT IS TIME

Kari Gunderson's avatar

Is that all you got tRUMP?

"Trump attacks Bruce Springsteen — calls him a “dried up prune,” urges MAGA concert boycott."

Like MAGA, if it still even exists, are not Springsteen fans to begin with. Who is the demented, obese, dried up prune? Look in the mirror Donald.

Adam Knight's avatar

The Anti-Christ will be easily identified..... He's ORANGE !!!

Kim Nesvig's avatar

Seriously, you can’t call trump a prune… he looks much more like a seriously over-ripe tomato.

LHS's avatar

A barking, bloated yam.

Candace Lucas's avatar

you know what happens when a tomato gets over ripe. It explodes.

Amanda's avatar

I would say he's a dried apricot but I like them too much to make that comparison. His face does kind of remind me of a peach pit though.

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

I said a piece of dried mango 🥭

Diane's avatar

I think he spends a lot of time plumping his pruneness.

Carole137's avatar

No one wants MAGATS at a Bruce concert anyway.

Sue Stjohn's avatar

VIAGR* wouldn't even work on him!!! 🤣🤣

Kim Nesvig's avatar

Turns out that electing a psychopath as president has its drawbacks.

Pickleball's avatar

I hope her new job is scrubbing toilets in prison

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Yeah, with her tongue 👅 You made me LOL, Pickleball!! 🤣

Skitealwedrop's avatar

OMG Joanne, I almost threw up my sushi 🤢

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

LOL! I'm sorry! The bitch deserves so much worse though!

Suzette's avatar

Boy, oh boy, is taco jealous of Bruce Springsteen, or what? "A dried up old prune", have you looked at yourself in a full length mirror lately, Donnie boy? You are bloated, blotchy and decrepit and so ugly that I am amazed that small children don't cry when they are in your presence

LHS's avatar

And has he looked at Kennedy? Speaking of dried-up!

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Yeah, he's pretty haggard and wrinkled.

Skitealwedrop's avatar

He’s a different shade of orange every day.

Adam Knight's avatar

That's why he trafficked them!

Sharon Fitzpatrick's avatar

Well -when is the last time you seen musk’s SPAWN in SHITLER’S OVAL OFFICE?

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

That's great, Suzette!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Penny Thibeaux's avatar

EPSTEIN FILES RUMP EPSTEIN WAR EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EXPOSE ALL THE BILLIONAIRES.

IMPEACH, PUT THEM ALL IN PRISON WHERE THEIR DESTINY AWAITS THEM ALL.

Nancy Richardson's avatar

Thanks Ben for the update and keeping us informed and up to date on everything. Another great job!

Craig Mullenmeister's avatar

Don-Tzu writer of "The Art of Chaos War" states: "You can't lose if you don't have a goal".

Denise kues's avatar

Pedophile Protector #2

Karen K. Cobeen's avatar

I can't believe how badly we have let this all continue. Running out of words. Our courts seem to be stepping up mostly but I'm not seeing any enforcement of their orders. On the other hand, I'm hoping we see all these crooks, thugs and murderers at the Hague. Perhaps some of them will actually hang. It's been done before.

The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

Sacrifice is not easy

The following excerpt is from a Washington Post Op-ed from 2020 regarding the Pandemic, but the lessons apply perfectly to opposing the current fascist takeover.

“Sacrifice is not easy and natural, but it can happen. And yet, the language of sacrifice faded in the aftermath of a more popular, more total and more demanding conflict for Americans. Following World War II, the “good war,” politicians, business leaders, unions and many Americans embraced the idea that mass consumption would drive economic prosperity. Even in the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, such a notion supplanted more collectivist notions of community and sacrifice, in part because those were increasingly stigmatized as “socialist” or “communist.” This offered an individualist reaffirmation of the nation’s democratic values and became central to American identity. Mass consumption and participation in the economy, not sacrifice, increasingly came to signal one’s patriotism.


The last military draft in the United States ended in 1973, and since then, service and sacrifice have been voluntary and borne unevenly. The fractures of national unity that came at the end of the Vietnam War and the distrust of government in the wake of Watergate helped to propel these changes. In their wake, collective sacrifice has been extolled by politicians but never urged, much less required. Instead, market logics and consumer-citizenship has been the default setting for how to practice engaged models of citizenship.

Shopping, traveling and showing confidence in the economy have come to define American citizenship and even responses to collective existential threats such as terrorism and emergencies, including deadly viral outbreaks.

The challenges the nation now faces are dire and require sacrifice, not consumption. The problem is that Americans have been actively discouraged by their leaders from making sacrifices in support of larger efforts — including wars, fossil fuel consumption, global warming, the Great Recession and the current pandemic. Confronting the looming public health, economic and climate challenges today requires a wholesale change in how citizens and the state conceive and construct a rhetoric as well as a practice of collective sacrifice.”

Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Woody Hayes Chair in national security studies at The Ohio State University. He is author of "Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age" and editor and author of "Rethinking American Grand Strategy" and "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories” (Columbia UP, 2022).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/07/americans-used-sacrifice-public-good-what-happened/

Mike Hammer's avatar

So will Bondi get immunity for covering up for Trump?

Kari Gunderson's avatar

She still has to appear before the House Oversight Committee under subpoena in mid-April. If she perjures herself maybe she'll go to jail. That would be the best outcome for this hardened criminal.

KimBF's avatar

🙏🏼🙏🏼

Adam Knight's avatar

Trump installs DJ6T as AG & control of the whole US govt, Little Johnson closes Congress permanently... until Dems become Republicans.

Bondi gets jail cell, until she blows open the Epstein files!

President Heinrich Himmler Miller carries on running the country !

On the good news front Trump is diagnosed as full blown evil sycopath.

This is starts a run on popcorn sales & everyone of sound mind marches on the WH with their Mr 45 ACP determined for a front row seat for Vladimir Putin's crowning ceremony as Dictator and POTUS.

Lindsay Graham is VP !

NOW FFS ARREST THE CRIMMINALS IN THE WH BEFORE THEY START WW3 !!!

Pamela S.'s avatar

I prefer to hope that she and Krusti will get together and launch the Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned revenge tour.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous: The best thing about Bondi was her incompetence. Vox; 2-Apr-26; https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.vox.com/policy/484729/pam-bondi-incomptent-justice-department#google_vignette

The worst-case scenario for Trump’s political enemies, and for anyone else who the Justice Department decides to target for political reasons, is that Bondi could be replaced by a capable advocate. (The full list of possible candidates to replace Bondi is not yet known, but some early news reports indicate that EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is under consideration). A competent attorney general would have made sure that a lawfully appointed prosecutor brought charges against Comey and James. A competent attorney general might have selectively leaked Epstein documents that mention Democrats, rather than inspiring an act of Congress requiring all of the documents to be released. And a competent attorney general would treat DOJ lawyers’ time as precious, because every minute a prosecutor spends on unnecessary work is time they can’t spend advancing Trump’s agenda.

linda sherer's avatar

Of course she will!!!!

Carol Gamm's avatar

So Americans will lose Medicare and Medicaid benefits so Trump can put more of our brave military in harm’s way? How much $, how many lives will be sacrificed?

Dr.David's avatar

77,302,580 PEOPLE VOTED FOR THIS ON NOVEMBER 5 2024. Almost all of them say that they still support and would vote for him again today. “THE DOW PASSED 50,000 RECENTLY”

ruth maddux's avatar

Well bondi going to jail unless she make deal .TACO needs to be hung up by his feet and we all take a shot at him his yellow belly will show or shit himself ❤️

Cathy Wray's avatar

I think Bondi will have an "accident " so that the Epstein names will never see the light of day.

Suel J's avatar

Maybe she will drop them on her way out