A president rewriting reality, a government frozen in chaos, and leaders lost in illusion; when truth becomes optional, Americans pay the heavy price and democracy itself teeters on collapse.
He is not demented. He is drunk on his own ego and power. Everyone around him feeds him admiration. And truth has never mattered to him. Only winning, whatever that is.
Janet, everything is about him lining his pockets with our taxes & the tariff taxes we pay & feeding his weak, pathetic ego. In his mind, no matter how wrong or delusional he is, he sees himself as the smartest & having all the answers. We are all being hurt by this & he is the ONLY ONE BENEFITING!
All that money that anyone wonders about is going straight into Trump's pockets to make his dreams come true. A huge ballroom, a big cement patio over the Rose Garden, getting his Saudi plane fixed up for him to fly around in, decorating the Oval Office & his residence ostentatiously with 24k gold, is where all the missingvmoney is going.
I am not even American, but as a gardener, it hurt to see the Rose Garden take such a bashing. Replanted ugly in his first term, paved in his second. What a metaphor.
I hope the next adult president quietly restores the Rose Garden to its former beauty. Another powerful metaphor.
It's really sad that a madman can come into office & destroy meaningful, historic things that don't even belong to him. The same goes for any majir changes, like adding a jumbo ballroom. The White House doesn't belong to him, it belongs to the people. Our tax dollars support it.
There is no accounting for it. The democrats are investigating his claims of collecting thirteen trillion from tariffs. The Treasury cannot account for it so…”someone has some splaining to do
I too have walked beside on that journey. Not an easy one. So sending big hugs.
I think, though, watching Trump, he is not demented at all. He is able to hold on very firmly to his fave narratives (wicked left, antifa, Biden, Barack HUSSEIN Obama), and lies easily and spontaneously (just not believably).
What I do see are the effects of a lifetime of cruelty and self indulgence, malignant narcissim, a bloated ego and being rich, spoiled, angry. Add in the effects of congestive heart failure, mini strokes and voila....the "leader" of the free world...
You are right with every thing you mentioned. He has so many character flaws or personality disorders. I honestly don't know a single person who behaves the way he does. He is the worst role model as a president displaying such despicable behavior with no shame whatsoever. Most of us care what others think & we monitor ourselves accordingly. I would never choose him for a friend, no matter what. Just being a liar alone is all it takes for me to have nothing to do with such a person.
There is a lot to be said for the ability to conduct oneself with self-control, even-handedness, generousity, reserve, tact, kindness, intelligence and perception.
Social media has given us a place to be our least selves, with none of the usual consequences (folks not liking you!). This has so degraded everyday interactions. And Trump has normalized the crudest, most vulgar and destructive behaviour. He is loathesome.
Janet, you are 100% correct. I agree with every word you said. He sets the worst example for anyone that looks up to him as a role model. I never thought someone so unethical & uncouth would ever become the President of the US. That man should be in prison, not in the White House with unlimited power to continue with his life of crime, cruelty, lies, scams, destruction & enriching himself.
I believe you are correct. He does remember things he wants to remember and other things like a question that he doesn't like he typically answers, "oh, I don't remember that. I could be looking into it".
You are correct. Pure unadulterated hate oozes from his every pore. It would be interesting to compare psychologically to all the hideous dictators of the past.
When are we gonna talk of the burning down of a Judge’s house Trump crossed paths with in Court. We have to bring this fuker to justice to what Trump done to her Family
Well you met one now with a brain..........and I am sure you are OK with the ANTIFA PUNKS and protesters in Oregon and Chicago trying to hurt the ICE agents who are there doing their job....
WOW......you sound like another F—king Camel Toe Harris-Tampon Tammy CRYBABY.....TRUMP kicked her ASS.....So SUCK IT UP and Get Ready For the Next 3 1/2 years!
You need to change your diaper and shut down your kiddy porn web sites........Hey Maggot braied loser...were you part of the Grindr crashing????? Yea.....With any luck your kids will be the first to be gang raped and tossed into the streets by ICE gestapo agents!!!.....Take the Maxi pads off your Fauxwashed Orange ears and tune into reality.
Wow wishing children get gang raped is NEVER ok. As much as I hate the felon child rapist and his minions I never wish for harm for any child! Do better.
Real Americans follow the actual teachings of Jesus. You are just a Fauxwashed Orange cult member,....that does the bidding of a convicted fellon...child rapist......molester.....overweight slob that lives on Big Macs, Whoppers...buckets of KFC and Maga size orders of fries.
Antifa. That means anti fascist, you know that ,right? So you are a fascist loving, racist ICE supporter. Who hates peaceful fun loving people.got it You are the type that should be carted out if the country. And you are all pigs 🐖 we see the garbage left behind everytime you people gather.
You are the "I like the uneducated" poster baby(complet with stinking,driping shit filled depends) that Cankles TacoTits....will NEVER invite into Maralardo!!!
You lose the bet!!! So keep your usless Trump coins and shove them up your ass!!! Enjoy the music in the Portland parks and make sure ICE picks up all the garbage that they leave behind.
MAGA grab your pointy white hood you’re late for the clan rally. Felon 47 bragged about cheating with Musk help. Narcissist are like that. Run off to your clan rally now. 😂
I see why you support trump. What an ignorant rude comment. Do you have healthcare? Do you rely on rural hospitals? Do you rely on any federal aid, disability? Well sir, that will be gone due to the big beautiful bill. And the lies he spews about illegals getting health care…well if youread the Constitution or study what the democrats proposed they do not qualify nor receive benefits. Please do yourself a favor and do some fact checking. It can be an arduous process but you will be surprised at the misinformation , yes, on both sides of the aisle. So before you say but Biden or but Obama do a little studying.
Facts. The felon spins his web and the country is caught in his web of flat out lies. Shame on every right wing so called “news “ station that pushes his BS every day. Shane on the frigid bitches that restate his lies as truth. Shame on every person too lazy to do simple fact checking. Shame on anyone not resisting this utter charade of chaos.
LMFAO.........Yes I have health care for life and a pension that pays me $130,000,00+ a year + automatic 3% increase every year. which I worked hard to get.......not like some of the FREE LOADING people that want to live off the government.....You are STUPD if you believe that the illegals haven't been getting health care. If you want to see all the $$$$$ that the Democrats were wasting just watch Senator Kennedy from Louisiana on the web he has been pointing them out.
Republican president, republican majority in both houses, huge gap between the few wealthy and the many poor, high unemployment ( and rising)- smells like 1928 to me.
In 1928, there were still some politicians who were loyal to Constitution and country. And we didn't have the machinations of the very organized machine made up of Dominionists and oligarchs, planning the takeover of the country.
Republicans are certainly complicit (and unlike Ivanka, I know what that means) because their only interest is Party, Power, and Pelf. I'm not sure who the 2025 Gang expects to rule over, when they decimate the population (if we're lucky, and only lose 10%) rape the land, and pollute the air and water. Eventually they will end up shouting in the midst of a conflagration, "Top of the world, Ma!"
AI will take over by then. They are playing with fire. No one has any idea how smart this technology will get. Or what it will cause. No-one is even paying attention to that science fi like nightmare. We are in so much danger from all over. All at once. It is not sustainable
It depends on which land you’re from. Reality eggs you want yo timeout Lala land. Not everyone believed the biased input & ignores facts, research & one sided investigation. You don’t look objectively at the issues. Sad. But standard.
I think that the democrats demand the Epstien files as part of the negotiation. I don't care if you are a republican or a democrat, we deserve to know what our current standing president really is!
Time to brush up on your knowledge of "The Epstein Conspiracy." Not "the Files." Not "the Client List."Make no mistake. It's "The Epstein Conspiracy" and we need to start calling it that because that's exactly what it is. It involves Epstein. Trump. Israel. Russia. There are lots and lots of people whose names you will recognize immediately. Big names. At the highest levels of US government and far beyond. It's global.
Here are the posts and articles I have collected detailing the depths of "The Epstein Conspiracy." It's not just some files, it's not just a client list. It's literally a massive conspiracy to conceal that global pedo cabal you've heard about all this time. It involves billionaires, royals, politicians, banking institutions, universities, intelligence agencies and global leaders. If you haven't fully dived into the rabbit hole yet, these links are a good start.
Every post I'm linking has verifiable sources. This is not some kooky conspiracy theory Kool Aid. This is all publicly available information. Every name and every thread are connected. In most cases the details of these posts and articles are corroborated by each other.
THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO SAVE OURSELVES IS TO EXPOSE THIS CARTEL.
In this transcript Professor Chenoweth discusses the four elements necessary for a successful social movement. Below are excerpts from the transcript.
The third thing that successful movements do is they innovate new tactics. This is very important because movements that tend to over-rely on a single technique like protests, like demonstrating every Friday, something that becomes very routinized, end up succumbing much more quickly first of all to protester fatigue, but the second thing is they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents. So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.
Those are the four things—numbers, defections, tactical innovations, and discipline. What do we need for those things to happen? We need to organize. I think one of the key reasons why many movements have struggled around the world, including in the United States before now, is that there has been an overemphasis on mobilizing and less of an emphasis on organizing because to have the capacity to do these things skillfully means that there has to be a baseline level of trust, political education, collective identity, and also a sense that the struggle is longer than just the next event we have to plan to be in the streets, that the struggle is a long struggle, and even if there is one particular event that gets derailed, we are still in this, and it's a long-term kind of struggle. Movements that end up planning event to event or march to march or protest to protest are in much more danger of being thrown off-course and having these sort of demobilizational factors affect their long-term trajectories.
Protests in Perspective: Civil Disobedience & Activism Today, with Erica Chenoweth & Deva Woodly | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
We need an economic strike. Stop spending money. Don’t pay your taxes. Defer your taxes for a year. If every sane person did this, it’ll work. That’ll get em.
We frame economic power as a contest between capital and labor, but the real star of the American economy is consumer spending, which accounts for 68% of GDP. The Great Recession saw a 3.4% drop in consumer spending — at the time, the most severe year-over-year decline since World War II. The U.S. economy registered a 9.8% drop in consumer spending during the second quarter of 2020, when Covid shut down the world as we knew it. In both instances the U.S. government responded aggressively, spending hundreds of billions, primarily on bailouts, to pull us out of the Great Recession, and trillions, primarily in direct aid, to get us through the pandemic. The lesson? When consumers stop spending, American leaders start listening. As Geo Hussar explained to his YouTube followers at the end of September, “this is not seizing the means of production, but seizing the means of consumption,” adding that if every American dropped their consumption, on average, by 2%, “that would be the most loud and potent form of protest.”
"A government shutdown just isn't that big of a macroeconomic event. But it's still a costly charade, an infuriating waste, and a pointless spectacle. Workers stay home, services stall, and in the end we pay them anyway. A masterclass in Washington dysfunction.." University of Michigan Economics Professor Dr. Justin Wolfers https://tinyurl.com/mutk2wtz
Well said, we lost our home and 1/2 retirement in the 2009 recession. At that time Obama convinced lenders to do deeds in lieu,of foreclosure. We gave them our house, all the equity was lost, they sold it and got their money back and we did not have to pay the taxes on the value as it was not considered capital gains. Needless to say we cut spending and have again. Sad but true reality.
The Peaceful Solution-Plan B, great shout out to Prof. Chenoweth. "Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change." https://tinyurl.com/5t3vpevt
Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule
FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• The 3.5% figure is a descriptive statistic based on a sample of historical movements. It is not necessarily a prescriptive one, and no one can see the future. Trying to achieve the threshold without building a broader public constituency does not guarantee success in the future. • The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important as large-scale participation in achieving movement success and are often precursors to achieving 3.5% participation.
• New research suggests that one nonviolent movement, Bahrain in 2011-2014, appears to have decisively failed despite achieving over 6% popular participation at its peak. This suggests that there has been at least one exception to the 3.5% rule, and that the rule is a tendency, rather than a law.
• Large peak participation size is associated with movement success. However, most mass nonviolent movements that have succeeded have done so even without achieving 3.5% popular participation.
Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule
FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• The 3.5% figure is a descriptive statistic based on a sample of historical movements. It is not necessarily a prescriptive one, and no one can see the future. Trying to achieve the threshold without building a broader public constituency does not guarantee success in the future. • The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important as large-scale participation in achieving movement success and are often precursors to achieving 3.5% participation.
• New research suggests that one nonviolent movement, Bahrain in 2011-2014, appears to have decisively failed despite achieving over 6% popular participation at its peak. This suggests that there has been at least one exception to the 3.5% rule, and that the rule is a tendency, rather than a law.
• Large peak participation size is associated with movement success. However, most mass nonviolent movements that have succeeded have done so even without achieving 3.5% popular participation.
Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule | Harvard Kennedy School
“the very foundation of democracy begins to crack.”
Begins? I think it’s already shattered in the Executive and Republican Congress…
We’ve only the Judiciary to keep this country in check. And we see how that’s working out in the Supremes rulings. They are trying to further empower the Executive Branch.
“That should terrify Republicans. When Marjorie Taylor Greene is the one breaking through the fog, it means the rest of the party has lost the plot entirely.”
She isn’t all bad ? Sensible and almost moderate on certain issues. What does that say about the rest of the party.
I don't think either of you guys understand We the People have already lost what matters to us most! A law/order, Constitutional, democratic republic where represntatives of good will take an Oath of Office to work together for the greatest good for the greatest amount of taxpayers and voters, all Americans. Now, antifa is labeled domestic terrorists, Dept. of Defense is named Dept. of War, 800+ Generals etc. are called to DC to hear that they are at war with the enemies within the USA, FCC threatens ABC to take a TV show off the air-Kimmel is off for a week+ in Sinclair and Nexstar areas, universities, media, law firms, businesses are directed to do trump/GOP agendas or be punished, ICE, National Guard-MASKED, ARMED, UNIDENTIFIED THUGS are on our streets seizing people, assaulting peaceful protesters, breaking into homes and cars, workplaces, courts, schools, legally profiling Latino looking, Latin accented people without court warrants, detaining them and without due process sending them to prisons, Africa-ANYWHERE that will take them, females are forced to give birth or almost die or die trying to deliver a baby, RFK Jr. wants to take away abortion and birth control pills and leaves more deadly ERECTION HELPERS for impotent, old, failing males completely alone, healthcare will be much more expensive in 2026 for EVERYONE not just Affordable Care users. VT has NO Medicare Advantage Plan for 2026 and many states have 2026 Advantage plans with no drug coverage. People must buy DRUG insurance to be covered by $2000 annual cap on out-of-pocket drug expenses. Old people aren't dying fast enough and healthcare insurance companies will profit and keep WALL STREET, oligarchs rolling in our bloody $$$$. DOJ, FBI, DHS, DOD/DOW, FEMA, US Supreme Court, RFK Jr.'s whole DEPT. is left in hands of wack jobs, vaccines, drugs, research, everything is broken and unaccountable, Trump et. al. treat Federal Workers as if they are their employees, they are ours, fire at will, empty out funded agencies and departments, treat our IRS taxpayments as their own SLUSH FUND to freeze, reward, use as blackmail, clawback to move our $$$ elsewhere, laws, court decisions, budget law are meerly suggestions and nothing more because US SUPREME COURT made POTUS immune to laws that govern the whole rest of 340M people in the USA, SCOTUS will rubberstamp Trump/GOP desires with emergency, shadow docket decisions giving no legal reason for their decsions, lower courts are just a passing through case handlers as appeals, US Supreme Court journey rolls slowly forward while We the People pray for HELP against this fascist, violent, cruel Trump/GOP Kingdom of Executive Orders, LOYAL GOP Legislative and Executive Branches and corrupted, bought and paid for US SUPREME COURT.
I'm sorry! I was on a roll and couldn't stop. This F'ing Federal Gov. HAS to stay SHUTDOWN. We the PEOPLE are under attack and Federal, State, Local governments are run on OUR TAXES! Federal workers MUST STRIKE-GO HOME. Why should TAXPAYERS feel sorry for them-WE ALWAYS PAY THEM. Yes, services and people will feel the pain. Federal workers, EVERYONE should be in PAIN TOGETHER-ALL AT ONCE! the PEOPLE MUST AWAKE and RESIST TOGETHER NOW! We will all feel the pain together or suffer and die separately.
I feel in my gut! This is the right move and the right time to FIGHT it ALL, to STOP it ALL, show our purchasing POWER and unrest to the 1-5% of the wealthiest among us, bring PROFITS to a halt, oligarchs must support RESISTANCE and self-ruled, law/order society or they will go down with us. WE are many more than them and together in our suffering WE can act to HEAL our country. PERHAPS, now or never. But, this SHUTDOWN cannot be just about HEALTHCARE. OUR BUDGET is a SLUSH FUND, a suggestion, a weapon for dictators to wield, our military is "unleashed" by Miller,Trump, Hegseth, puyppy killer, Noem, Homan etc.
Get really into our existence as single, defenseless, less wealthy, less able to fend with legal dangers, healthcare disappearing or too expensive, targeted on the streets, at peaceful protests-be an ordinary person with nothing special but a lot of love for their country and our people, the world and you too would refuse to pay for any of this. Too be complicit by funding it is traitorous and sadistic activity.
SHUT IT ALL DOWN UNTIL the WEALTHY, PSYCHOTIC, LYING, MASOCHISTIC, MEGALOMANIACS GIVE UP THEIR POWER AND FINANCIAL HOLD OVER OUR GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESSES AND WE THE PEOPLE. This will not go away by ministeps in the right direction not with the money and criminally insane in charge.
I believe you covered the bases. We do need some changes. No more super PACS, term limits in place. But Chuck Schumer tried giving in last shutdown and it failed so…you are right also no salaries for the House, Senate, no insurance no benefits.neither side is blameless in this but let’s stop with the games and follow the constitution. We the people deserve better. Many have fought for us and we need to keep fighting.
I’m tired. I’m tired of hearing all the crap that this regime is doing to our people and our country. I’ve never spoken my mind as much as I have on these Substacks but if that’s the only way that I can help to fight against this regime then I will continue speaking my mind. If you don’t want me to do that please let me know.
Never stop. Never . Even though I have been at this fight since 2015, and see how bad it really is, I will NEVER GIVE IN TO FASCISTS .
It makes me sick to hear them say Antifa are terrorists. It literally means ANTI fascist. We should adopt the name and use it,to reorganize as the ANTIFA PARTY. Start over. New government for modern times. The old ways dont work anymore
MTG is only flirting with reality because losing the midterms is more scary than real life stuff. Others in the GOP are doing the same thing, for the same reason. None of them have changed their allegiance and the voting records remain unchanged.
Let’s go back to 2020 when Cheeto after losing the election pulled all the stops including a ransacking of the Capitol building during the J6 insurrection when Cheeto called on his hoodlums to interfere with the certification of the election
As all the turmoil was being churned now disbarred Guliani and his Nazi cohort of lawyers filed and lost 61 lawsuits in court attempting to push Cheeto’s Big Lie agenda
Well it’s now 2025 and Cheeto is trying to militarize the streets of Democratic cities, first Los Angeles, then Portland, and now Chicago But the federal courts as they did in 2020 have turned the stupidity of the attempt to militarize our cities into what could only be termed sham legalese
So Cheeto being the bully he is, thinks that he can get away his military junta attempt and as JB Pritzker(governor of Illinois) has said that bringing the military is about fear and intimidation of the electorate in the runup to the 2026 midtems Pritzker also suggested on Maddow yesterday that he believes that the Nazi regime will confiscate voting machines
What we hear from the fool in our White House is a little man behind a big gold screen roaring into a microphone. Turn off the mic, pull back the screen and call him what he is - The Fool on the Hill.
FFTrump is acting out a very deliberate scheme created by anti American money grabbers. His role is a rouse to distract. Don't EVER listen to him speak. Our TV goes dead or at least the channel changes every time his face or voice appear. Thank you Meidas for creating a place to hear intelligent, clear eyed, discussions. All generations have their challenges. This is ours.
Looks like Trump’s dementia is competing with his inability to tell the truth.
He is not demented. He is drunk on his own ego and power. Everyone around him feeds him admiration. And truth has never mattered to him. Only winning, whatever that is.
Oh, he has cognitive impairment for sure. Not necessarily a clinical diagnosis of dementia but cognitive impairment is blatantly obvious.
Agree! He’s showing the signs
Janet, everything is about him lining his pockets with our taxes & the tariff taxes we pay & feeding his weak, pathetic ego. In his mind, no matter how wrong or delusional he is, he sees himself as the smartest & having all the answers. We are all being hurt by this & he is the ONLY ONE BENEFITING!
I have wondered where all that money is going...aside from ICE...
All that money that anyone wonders about is going straight into Trump's pockets to make his dreams come true. A huge ballroom, a big cement patio over the Rose Garden, getting his Saudi plane fixed up for him to fly around in, decorating the Oval Office & his residence ostentatiously with 24k gold, is where all the missingvmoney is going.
I am not even American, but as a gardener, it hurt to see the Rose Garden take such a bashing. Replanted ugly in his first term, paved in his second. What a metaphor.
I hope the next adult president quietly restores the Rose Garden to its former beauty. Another powerful metaphor.
It's really sad that a madman can come into office & destroy meaningful, historic things that don't even belong to him. The same goes for any majir changes, like adding a jumbo ballroom. The White House doesn't belong to him, it belongs to the people. Our tax dollars support it.
There is no accounting for it. The democrats are investigating his claims of collecting thirteen trillion from tariffs. The Treasury cannot account for it so…”someone has some splaining to do
Having a mother who has advanced dementia, I believe it's both.
I too have walked beside on that journey. Not an easy one. So sending big hugs.
I think, though, watching Trump, he is not demented at all. He is able to hold on very firmly to his fave narratives (wicked left, antifa, Biden, Barack HUSSEIN Obama), and lies easily and spontaneously (just not believably).
What I do see are the effects of a lifetime of cruelty and self indulgence, malignant narcissim, a bloated ego and being rich, spoiled, angry. Add in the effects of congestive heart failure, mini strokes and voila....the "leader" of the free world...
You are right with every thing you mentioned. He has so many character flaws or personality disorders. I honestly don't know a single person who behaves the way he does. He is the worst role model as a president displaying such despicable behavior with no shame whatsoever. Most of us care what others think & we monitor ourselves accordingly. I would never choose him for a friend, no matter what. Just being a liar alone is all it takes for me to have nothing to do with such a person.
There is a lot to be said for the ability to conduct oneself with self-control, even-handedness, generousity, reserve, tact, kindness, intelligence and perception.
Social media has given us a place to be our least selves, with none of the usual consequences (folks not liking you!). This has so degraded everyday interactions. And Trump has normalized the crudest, most vulgar and destructive behaviour. He is loathesome.
Janet, you are 100% correct. I agree with every word you said. He sets the worst example for anyone that looks up to him as a role model. I never thought someone so unethical & uncouth would ever become the President of the US. That man should be in prison, not in the White House with unlimited power to continue with his life of crime, cruelty, lies, scams, destruction & enriching himself.
I believe you are correct. He does remember things he wants to remember and other things like a question that he doesn't like he typically answers, "oh, I don't remember that. I could be looking into it".
You are correct. Pure unadulterated hate oozes from his every pore. It would be interesting to compare psychologically to all the hideous dictators of the past.
He has never told the truth.
When are we gonna talk of the burning down of a Judge’s house Trump crossed paths with in Court. We have to bring this fuker to justice to what Trump done to her Family
Well you met one now with a brain..........and I am sure you are OK with the ANTIFA PUNKS and protesters in Oregon and Chicago trying to hurt the ICE agents who are there doing their job....
WOW......you sound like another F—king Camel Toe Harris-Tampon Tammy CRYBABY.....TRUMP kicked her ASS.....So SUCK IT UP and Get Ready For the Next 3 1/2 years!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8NkMu7u/
You need to change your diaper and shut down your kiddy porn web sites........Hey Maggot braied loser...were you part of the Grindr crashing????? Yea.....With any luck your kids will be the first to be gang raped and tossed into the streets by ICE gestapo agents!!!.....Take the Maxi pads off your Fauxwashed Orange ears and tune into reality.
Wow wishing children get gang raped is NEVER ok. As much as I hate the felon child rapist and his minions I never wish for harm for any child! Do better.
See the Florida Grand Jury transcrips.........Let the testimonies of 14 year old victims of Trump/Epstein speak for themselves.
Which party gets busted for child porn.....child abuse almost every day????
Why are ICE agents wearing masks???? What party is crashing Grindr???
Where are the missing people from the Florida concentration camp???
What party encourages homes to be blown up????
WOW....did I hit a sore spot......ICE is doing a great job....they know the REAL AMERICANS are behind them.....POS
Real Americans follow the actual teachings of Jesus. You are just a Fauxwashed Orange cult member,....that does the bidding of a convicted fellon...child rapist......molester.....overweight slob that lives on Big Macs, Whoppers...buckets of KFC and Maga size orders of fries.
I will bet that you ae the one that is FAT and out of shape!!
YOU sound just like the ANTIFA PUNKS on Portland........ICE is doing a great job there......
Antifa. That means anti fascist, you know that ,right? So you are a fascist loving, racist ICE supporter. Who hates peaceful fun loving people.got it You are the type that should be carted out if the country. And you are all pigs 🐖 we see the garbage left behind everytime you people gather.
You are the "I like the uneducated" poster baby(complet with stinking,driping shit filled depends) that Cankles TacoTits....will NEVER invite into Maralardo!!!
You lose the bet!!! So keep your usless Trump coins and shove them up your ass!!! Enjoy the music in the Portland parks and make sure ICE picks up all the garbage that they leave behind.
A cult member has entered . Be ready for some low IQ babble
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it alreedy
Well John, it sure sounds like you’re in trumps cult. Never met one who even had a half a brain
You sound so similar to Dump!
Like I said nobody in the US gives S--t what someone in Australia has to say...
Not true. It's all you. No matter where you are from.
You are in a cult.
MAGA grab your pointy white hood you’re late for the clan rally. Felon 47 bragged about cheating with Musk help. Narcissist are like that. Run off to your clan rally now. 😂
All dumb 💩 MAGAs who are in a cult gets BLOCKED!
Your leader is a pedophile.
Mr. Candler,
I see why you support trump. What an ignorant rude comment. Do you have healthcare? Do you rely on rural hospitals? Do you rely on any federal aid, disability? Well sir, that will be gone due to the big beautiful bill. And the lies he spews about illegals getting health care…well if youread the Constitution or study what the democrats proposed they do not qualify nor receive benefits. Please do yourself a favor and do some fact checking. It can be an arduous process but you will be surprised at the misinformation , yes, on both sides of the aisle. So before you say but Biden or but Obama do a little studying.
Thank you
Facts. The felon spins his web and the country is caught in his web of flat out lies. Shame on every right wing so called “news “ station that pushes his BS every day. Shane on the frigid bitches that restate his lies as truth. Shame on every person too lazy to do simple fact checking. Shame on anyone not resisting this utter charade of chaos.
Crock of bull. Kennedy is a Neanderthal. Only covered in the ER. Read the policy.
LMFAO.........Yes I have health care for life and a pension that pays me $130,000,00+ a year + automatic 3% increase every year. which I worked hard to get.......not like some of the FREE LOADING people that want to live off the government.....You are STUPD if you believe that the illegals haven't been getting health care. If you want to see all the $$$$$ that the Democrats were wasting just watch Senator Kennedy from Louisiana on the web he has been pointing them out.
You won't by 2028, when and IF you get your fascist dream you worship.
Dump doesn't like pensions
Or Unions,which you probably got those benefits from.
He will come for everyone.
Republican president, republican majority in both houses, huge gap between the few wealthy and the many poor, high unemployment ( and rising)- smells like 1928 to me.
22 states, including my blue one, are reportedly already in a recession.
In 1928, there were still some politicians who were loyal to Constitution and country. And we didn't have the machinations of the very organized machine made up of Dominionists and oligarchs, planning the takeover of the country.
Republicans are certainly complicit (and unlike Ivanka, I know what that means) because their only interest is Party, Power, and Pelf. I'm not sure who the 2025 Gang expects to rule over, when they decimate the population (if we're lucky, and only lose 10%) rape the land, and pollute the air and water. Eventually they will end up shouting in the midst of a conflagration, "Top of the world, Ma!"
AI will take over by then. They are playing with fire. No one has any idea how smart this technology will get. Or what it will cause. No-one is even paying attention to that science fi like nightmare. We are in so much danger from all over. All at once. It is not sustainable
We all know this is true 💯%
It depends on which land you’re from. Reality eggs you want yo timeout Lala land. Not everyone believed the biased input & ignores facts, research & one sided investigation. You don’t look objectively at the issues. Sad. But standard.
You know who is eternally in lala land magats.
You’ve been there & seen them?? You can leave & live in reality at any time.
I know what is actually going on, but keep projecting and confessing you are welcome to leave maga and come back to common sense and logic.
Yes you can come back and live in reality anytime magat.
As always consistently one of the best descriptions written of this evil ..... you are truly an excellent writer with a very deep sting
I think that the democrats demand the Epstien files as part of the negotiation. I don't care if you are a republican or a democrat, we deserve to know what our current standing president really is!
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN CONSPIRACY FILES
Time to brush up on your knowledge of "The Epstein Conspiracy." Not "the Files." Not "the Client List."Make no mistake. It's "The Epstein Conspiracy" and we need to start calling it that because that's exactly what it is. It involves Epstein. Trump. Israel. Russia. There are lots and lots of people whose names you will recognize immediately. Big names. At the highest levels of US government and far beyond. It's global.
Here are the posts and articles I have collected detailing the depths of "The Epstein Conspiracy." It's not just some files, it's not just a client list. It's literally a massive conspiracy to conceal that global pedo cabal you've heard about all this time. It involves billionaires, royals, politicians, banking institutions, universities, intelligence agencies and global leaders. If you haven't fully dived into the rabbit hole yet, these links are a good start.
Every post I'm linking has verifiable sources. This is not some kooky conspiracy theory Kool Aid. This is all publicly available information. Every name and every thread are connected. In most cases the details of these posts and articles are corroborated by each other.
THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO SAVE OURSELVES IS TO EXPOSE THIS CARTEL.
https://pc93.substack.com/p/the-alpha-and-omega-of-the-epstein?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/red-lines?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/redacted-the-real-epstein-list?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-evade-justice?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/why-epsteins-network-looks-like-intelligence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin-has-on-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true&open=false
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/third-whistleblower-the-epstein-files?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true
https://archive.is/9q5Us
https://thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/epstein-lives-out-his-last-days-is?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/what-massie-said-in-the-epstein-hearing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh&triedRedirect=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/craigunger/p/from-both-sides-now?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/letters-to-bette-epstein-money-laundering?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://open.substack.com/pub/katemanne/p/the-actual-conspiracy-theory-surrounding?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://open.substack.com/pub/olgalautman/p/active-measures-how-the-kremlin-penetrated?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://open.substack.com/pub/ellieleonard/p/epsteins-little-black-book-the-whole?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://open.substack.com/pub/ellieleonard/p/i-was-13-years-old-the-story-of-katie?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/business/jeffrey-epstein-peter-thiel-estate.html (Use archive.is to bypass paywall)
https://www.finance.senate.gov/download/letter-from-senator-wyden-to-secretary-bessent-on-epstein-documentspdf
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article238237729.html
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-peter-mandelson-asked-jeffrey-epstein-for-israel-advice/
https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-media-barely-touches-epstein-links-israeli-intelligence/50822
https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-conspiracies-about-jeffrey-epstein-go-mainstream-as-he-returns-to-headlines/
https://open.substack.com/pub/tarapalmeri/p/sen-murkowskis-ghislaine-maxwell?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r9beh
Surely the ‘pubs want, and benefit from, the lockdown?
Successful Social Movements
In this transcript Professor Chenoweth discusses the four elements necessary for a successful social movement. Below are excerpts from the transcript.
The third thing that successful movements do is they innovate new tactics. This is very important because movements that tend to over-rely on a single technique like protests, like demonstrating every Friday, something that becomes very routinized, end up succumbing much more quickly first of all to protester fatigue, but the second thing is they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents. So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.
Those are the four things—numbers, defections, tactical innovations, and discipline. What do we need for those things to happen? We need to organize. I think one of the key reasons why many movements have struggled around the world, including in the United States before now, is that there has been an overemphasis on mobilizing and less of an emphasis on organizing because to have the capacity to do these things skillfully means that there has to be a baseline level of trust, political education, collective identity, and also a sense that the struggle is longer than just the next event we have to plan to be in the streets, that the struggle is a long struggle, and even if there is one particular event that gets derailed, we are still in this, and it's a long-term kind of struggle. Movements that end up planning event to event or march to march or protest to protest are in much more danger of being thrown off-course and having these sort of demobilizational factors affect their long-term trajectories.
Protests in Perspective: Civil Disobedience & Activism Today, with Erica Chenoweth & Deva Woodly | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
We need an economic strike. Stop spending money. Don’t pay your taxes. Defer your taxes for a year. If every sane person did this, it’ll work. That’ll get em.
From No mercy/No malice
By Professor Scott Galloway
We frame economic power as a contest between capital and labor, but the real star of the American economy is consumer spending, which accounts for 68% of GDP. The Great Recession saw a 3.4% drop in consumer spending — at the time, the most severe year-over-year decline since World War II. The U.S. economy registered a 9.8% drop in consumer spending during the second quarter of 2020, when Covid shut down the world as we knew it. In both instances the U.S. government responded aggressively, spending hundreds of billions, primarily on bailouts, to pull us out of the Great Recession, and trillions, primarily in direct aid, to get us through the pandemic. The lesson? When consumers stop spending, American leaders start listening. As Geo Hussar explained to his YouTube followers at the end of September, “this is not seizing the means of production, but seizing the means of consumption,” adding that if every American dropped their consumption, on average, by 2%, “that would be the most loud and potent form of protest.”
"A government shutdown just isn't that big of a macroeconomic event. But it's still a costly charade, an infuriating waste, and a pointless spectacle. Workers stay home, services stall, and in the end we pay them anyway. A masterclass in Washington dysfunction.." University of Michigan Economics Professor Dr. Justin Wolfers https://tinyurl.com/mutk2wtz
Well said, we lost our home and 1/2 retirement in the 2009 recession. At that time Obama convinced lenders to do deeds in lieu,of foreclosure. We gave them our house, all the equity was lost, they sold it and got their money back and we did not have to pay the taxes on the value as it was not considered capital gains. Needless to say we cut spending and have again. Sad but true reality.
The Peaceful Solution-Plan B, great shout out to Prof. Chenoweth. "Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change." https://tinyurl.com/5t3vpevt
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/questions-answers-and-some-cautionary-updates-regarding-35-rule
She has some revisions to the 3.5% rule.
Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule
FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• The 3.5% figure is a descriptive statistic based on a sample of historical movements. It is not necessarily a prescriptive one, and no one can see the future. Trying to achieve the threshold without building a broader public constituency does not guarantee success in the future. • The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important as large-scale participation in achieving movement success and are often precursors to achieving 3.5% participation.
• New research suggests that one nonviolent movement, Bahrain in 2011-2014, appears to have decisively failed despite achieving over 6% popular participation at its peak. This suggests that there has been at least one exception to the 3.5% rule, and that the rule is a tendency, rather than a law.
• Large peak participation size is associated with movement success. However, most mass nonviolent movements that have succeeded have done so even without achieving 3.5% popular participation.
Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule
FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• The 3.5% figure is a descriptive statistic based on a sample of historical movements. It is not necessarily a prescriptive one, and no one can see the future. Trying to achieve the threshold without building a broader public constituency does not guarantee success in the future. • The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important as large-scale participation in achieving movement success and are often precursors to achieving 3.5% participation.
• New research suggests that one nonviolent movement, Bahrain in 2011-2014, appears to have decisively failed despite achieving over 6% popular participation at its peak. This suggests that there has been at least one exception to the 3.5% rule, and that the rule is a tendency, rather than a law.
• Large peak participation size is associated with movement success. However, most mass nonviolent movements that have succeeded have done so even without achieving 3.5% popular participation.
Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule | Harvard Kennedy School
“the very foundation of democracy begins to crack.”
Begins? I think it’s already shattered in the Executive and Republican Congress…
We’ve only the Judiciary to keep this country in check. And we see how that’s working out in the Supremes rulings. They are trying to further empower the Executive Branch.
“That should terrify Republicans. When Marjorie Taylor Greene is the one breaking through the fog, it means the rest of the party has lost the plot entirely.”
She isn’t all bad ? Sensible and almost moderate on certain issues. What does that say about the rest of the party.
I don't think either of you guys understand We the People have already lost what matters to us most! A law/order, Constitutional, democratic republic where represntatives of good will take an Oath of Office to work together for the greatest good for the greatest amount of taxpayers and voters, all Americans. Now, antifa is labeled domestic terrorists, Dept. of Defense is named Dept. of War, 800+ Generals etc. are called to DC to hear that they are at war with the enemies within the USA, FCC threatens ABC to take a TV show off the air-Kimmel is off for a week+ in Sinclair and Nexstar areas, universities, media, law firms, businesses are directed to do trump/GOP agendas or be punished, ICE, National Guard-MASKED, ARMED, UNIDENTIFIED THUGS are on our streets seizing people, assaulting peaceful protesters, breaking into homes and cars, workplaces, courts, schools, legally profiling Latino looking, Latin accented people without court warrants, detaining them and without due process sending them to prisons, Africa-ANYWHERE that will take them, females are forced to give birth or almost die or die trying to deliver a baby, RFK Jr. wants to take away abortion and birth control pills and leaves more deadly ERECTION HELPERS for impotent, old, failing males completely alone, healthcare will be much more expensive in 2026 for EVERYONE not just Affordable Care users. VT has NO Medicare Advantage Plan for 2026 and many states have 2026 Advantage plans with no drug coverage. People must buy DRUG insurance to be covered by $2000 annual cap on out-of-pocket drug expenses. Old people aren't dying fast enough and healthcare insurance companies will profit and keep WALL STREET, oligarchs rolling in our bloody $$$$. DOJ, FBI, DHS, DOD/DOW, FEMA, US Supreme Court, RFK Jr.'s whole DEPT. is left in hands of wack jobs, vaccines, drugs, research, everything is broken and unaccountable, Trump et. al. treat Federal Workers as if they are their employees, they are ours, fire at will, empty out funded agencies and departments, treat our IRS taxpayments as their own SLUSH FUND to freeze, reward, use as blackmail, clawback to move our $$$ elsewhere, laws, court decisions, budget law are meerly suggestions and nothing more because US SUPREME COURT made POTUS immune to laws that govern the whole rest of 340M people in the USA, SCOTUS will rubberstamp Trump/GOP desires with emergency, shadow docket decisions giving no legal reason for their decsions, lower courts are just a passing through case handlers as appeals, US Supreme Court journey rolls slowly forward while We the People pray for HELP against this fascist, violent, cruel Trump/GOP Kingdom of Executive Orders, LOYAL GOP Legislative and Executive Branches and corrupted, bought and paid for US SUPREME COURT.
I'm sorry! I was on a roll and couldn't stop. This F'ing Federal Gov. HAS to stay SHUTDOWN. We the PEOPLE are under attack and Federal, State, Local governments are run on OUR TAXES! Federal workers MUST STRIKE-GO HOME. Why should TAXPAYERS feel sorry for them-WE ALWAYS PAY THEM. Yes, services and people will feel the pain. Federal workers, EVERYONE should be in PAIN TOGETHER-ALL AT ONCE! the PEOPLE MUST AWAKE and RESIST TOGETHER NOW! We will all feel the pain together or suffer and die separately.
I feel in my gut! This is the right move and the right time to FIGHT it ALL, to STOP it ALL, show our purchasing POWER and unrest to the 1-5% of the wealthiest among us, bring PROFITS to a halt, oligarchs must support RESISTANCE and self-ruled, law/order society or they will go down with us. WE are many more than them and together in our suffering WE can act to HEAL our country. PERHAPS, now or never. But, this SHUTDOWN cannot be just about HEALTHCARE. OUR BUDGET is a SLUSH FUND, a suggestion, a weapon for dictators to wield, our military is "unleashed" by Miller,Trump, Hegseth, puyppy killer, Noem, Homan etc.
Get really into our existence as single, defenseless, less wealthy, less able to fend with legal dangers, healthcare disappearing or too expensive, targeted on the streets, at peaceful protests-be an ordinary person with nothing special but a lot of love for their country and our people, the world and you too would refuse to pay for any of this. Too be complicit by funding it is traitorous and sadistic activity.
SHUT IT ALL DOWN UNTIL the WEALTHY, PSYCHOTIC, LYING, MASOCHISTIC, MEGALOMANIACS GIVE UP THEIR POWER AND FINANCIAL HOLD OVER OUR GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESSES AND WE THE PEOPLE. This will not go away by ministeps in the right direction not with the money and criminally insane in charge.
I believe you covered the bases. We do need some changes. No more super PACS, term limits in place. But Chuck Schumer tried giving in last shutdown and it failed so…you are right also no salaries for the House, Senate, no insurance no benefits.neither side is blameless in this but let’s stop with the games and follow the constitution. We the people deserve better. Many have fought for us and we need to keep fighting.
Nice job Becca. 👏 the last chance is this shut down. Then ,an all in, general strike. That is a big thing to do in a country of our size.
And we need the military to hold.
Remove Trump and his Stooges!
I’m tired. I’m tired of hearing all the crap that this regime is doing to our people and our country. I’ve never spoken my mind as much as I have on these Substacks but if that’s the only way that I can help to fight against this regime then I will continue speaking my mind. If you don’t want me to do that please let me know.
Never stop. Never . Even though I have been at this fight since 2015, and see how bad it really is, I will NEVER GIVE IN TO FASCISTS .
It makes me sick to hear them say Antifa are terrorists. It literally means ANTI fascist. We should adopt the name and use it,to reorganize as the ANTIFA PARTY. Start over. New government for modern times. The old ways dont work anymore
Keep fighting the good fight. Who knows when it will strike a chord with the one who makes it change.
MTG is only flirting with reality because losing the midterms is more scary than real life stuff. Others in the GOP are doing the same thing, for the same reason. None of them have changed their allegiance and the voting records remain unchanged.
Cheeto Didn’t Learn His Lesson In 2021
Let’s go back to 2020 when Cheeto after losing the election pulled all the stops including a ransacking of the Capitol building during the J6 insurrection when Cheeto called on his hoodlums to interfere with the certification of the election
As all the turmoil was being churned now disbarred Guliani and his Nazi cohort of lawyers filed and lost 61 lawsuits in court attempting to push Cheeto’s Big Lie agenda
Well it’s now 2025 and Cheeto is trying to militarize the streets of Democratic cities, first Los Angeles, then Portland, and now Chicago But the federal courts as they did in 2020 have turned the stupidity of the attempt to militarize our cities into what could only be termed sham legalese
So Cheeto being the bully he is, thinks that he can get away his military junta attempt and as JB Pritzker(governor of Illinois) has said that bringing the military is about fear and intimidation of the electorate in the runup to the 2026 midtems Pritzker also suggested on Maddow yesterday that he believes that the Nazi regime will confiscate voting machines
What we hear from the fool in our White House is a little man behind a big gold screen roaring into a microphone. Turn off the mic, pull back the screen and call him what he is - The Fool on the Hill.
FFTrump is acting out a very deliberate scheme created by anti American money grabbers. His role is a rouse to distract. Don't EVER listen to him speak. Our TV goes dead or at least the channel changes every time his face or voice appear. Thank you Meidas for creating a place to hear intelligent, clear eyed, discussions. All generations have their challenges. This is ours.