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A very frantic Donald Trump is trying to post his way out of the disaster he has created for his regime as his plans continue to backfire. He was posting last night around midnight attacks against MSNBC, calling it MSDNC. Today he was posting attacks on former President Biden. He was making random posts
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make America great again with exclamation points. He was lying and saying, inflation is down. I've solved the problem. Make America great again. Everybody is happy. There's jobs for everyone. People are living their best lives now. Literally, as the data comes in that prices are higher, like try to get a cup of coffee. I mean,
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it's projected to be like 59% higher as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs in some places. Take a look at housing right now, mortgage rates crossing what 7% could even potentially hit 8% soon. And of course, Most bankers right now and most economists believe we're either already in a recession, we're heading for a recession.

Trump's Ponzi Scheme Presidency Is Falling Apart

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By Ben Meiselas

Let’s talk about what’s really going on behind Trump’s late-night social media tantrums—because the media won’t say it plainly, but I will: he’s frantic, desperate, and completely unhinged.

Last night, right around midnight, Trump was rage-posting like a lunatic. Attacks on MSNBC, random “Make America Great Again” exclamations, outright lies about inflation and jobs. He’s just making things up. According to him, everything is amazing. But try buying a cup of coffee. In some places, prices are projected to rise 59% because of his reckless tariffs. Mortgage rates are creeping past 7%—maybe even 8%. And leading economists are warning that we’re heading straight for a recession—or worse. But Trump? He’s pretending it’s “Morning in America.”

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And let me tell you what image the Trump White House proudly posted to promote their “vision” of America: a group of coal miners, faces covered in soot after a grueling day of labor. No plan to create better, higher-paying jobs. Just performative nostalgia for an economy that grinds down the working class. Let me be clear: I have nothing but respect for our miners. But we should be lifting them up, not using them as props while we ship factories overseas and cut their benefits.

And it gets worse. Scroll through Trump’s failing social media app—yes, the one that lost nearly $400 million last year—and you’ll find ivermectin ads with Matt Gaetz and Trump praising Elise Stefanik like he’s casting a reboot of The Apprentice. Meanwhile, Trump’s still lying about immigration, slandering President Biden as “soft,” when in fact Biden has deported more people with criminal records than Trump ever did. The difference? Biden did it legally and with due process. Trump wants to play fascist dictator, rounding up immigrants like it's a game show for psychopaths.

And let’s not forget Trump’s authoritarian obsession with controlling higher education. He’s throwing a fit because Harvard wouldn’t let him gut diversity or audit the political views of students and faculty like some dystopian madman. This isn’t just creepy—it’s fascist. And yes, I said it.

Then there’s Elon Musk. Even Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal couldn’t ignore the bizarre cult Musk is building. Multiple women, silenced with millions, raising children he calls his “legions” in a private compound—while he and Trump push family values propaganda. These are the guys who want to run the country.

And as factories close and prices rise, what’s the Trump regime’s top priority today? Suing the state of Maine. Why? Because two transgender student-athletes exist. That’s it. Two. So Trump’s DOJ is trying to pull all federal funding from public schools in Maine and strip lunch from 172,000 kids—just to bully two trans teens. This is the cruelty-is-the-point playbook in action.

It’s all falling apart. The tariffs are tanking the economy. Governors like Gavin Newsom are suing Trump for abusing war powers to slap tariffs on allies. The data doesn’t lie—Trump’s trade policies are gutting supply chains and raising costs across the board. He’s not protecting America. He’s dismantling it.

Trump is unraveling. Let’s keep the pressure on.

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Orangeshitstain's avatar

Me thinks emperor Von shitzin pantz is actually bat shit crazy

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Heather.B's avatar

People will not learn their lessons when supporting Trump. Millions of people voted for this guy, despite all the warning signs. Half these people would never let their child date a convicted felon, but they decided it was OK to give one the nuclear codes.

He can unleash anger like no president before him, but that is it. So we have a pissed off white male running the country. What else is new?

MAGA faction is basically a cult at this point. They will throw away anything they claim to honor for their deranged orange leader.

This whole administration is totally incompetent, disgraceful and detestable! Our country has become an embarrassment.

Four years of this sh*tshow 💩. It’s going to be long, but I can’t wait until this nightmare is over. Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of t-shirts everyday 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/t-shirts

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Candace Lucas's avatar

i hope it's not four years. I hope he bursts a blood vessel in his head and spends the rest of his life drooling on a bib. I'd like to add pooping his pants but apparently he already does that.

we'd have to get rid of Vancy pants next. then mikey "hypocrite" Johnson.

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Lulu Fraser's avatar

Trump will not die. People without a conscience live longer than the rest of us. But, Trumpism needs to die. Probably best to have Trumpism die while Trump is still alive so that he doesn’t become a martyr.

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Leah Baum's avatar

True, the good dies young but evil lives on forever. Or so it seems.

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Jean Conley's avatar

Dopey in the Oval Office and all people who support him have brain fog and then some. Actually, I doubt they even have brains.

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Lights Seiferlein's avatar

Start paying for your own ads. Reported and blocked.

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Paul Thompson's avatar

Like trying to smack a roach.

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Irene Finn's avatar

The thing that stinks about that is look at the next 2 turds in line. JD Vance and Mike Johnson.

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Candace Lucas's avatar

Yes, they have to go as well. Ideally, a plane crash with all of them aboard.

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Virginia Watson's avatar

Or just 8 republican house members.

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Jean Conley's avatar

...and all the republiCRAP senators would really be great. Then impeachment would be a sure thing.

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Rebecca Bain Patchell's avatar

Bad thought but somehow makes sense :)

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Put them in a poorly maintained helicopter over the Grand Canyon.

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Paul Thompson's avatar

Don't do that to the Grand Canyon. Howsabout Mar-a-L??

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Jean Conley's avatar

If only..........

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Stronghope's avatar

Trump probably had a meltdown bc Rachel had the whistleblower on last night!! Let's keep the pressure up!!

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Jean Conley's avatar

I (and we know millions more) sure hope you're right. I think he already burst that blood vessel. He's never played with a full deck and his elevator doesn't go to the top floor. It's unbelievable that there are so many republiCRAPS just don't see how mentally deranged he is.

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john augustine's avatar

Didn’t u hear he is in best health of anyone ever 😐

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Linda's avatar

That joke is on him because he believes it…

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Leah Baum's avatar

We all know felon 47 wrote his own medical report. No doctor would write about his golf game. When he had his mugshot taken at the Fulton county jail it was reported he’s 5.10, 280 lbs. I think he weighs closer to 380.

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Irene Finn's avatar

Probably the same doctor who gave him 3 draft deferrments for "bone spurs". It was actually a podiatrist who rented office space from Trump's father who handed him that. The man is a liar surrounded by paid stooges.

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Lights Seiferlein's avatar

Pay for your own damn ads and quit parasitizing comments sections. Reported and blocked.

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Patricia Anne Boone's avatar

Thank you!! I just sent her a nasty message.

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Lights Seiferlein's avatar

You're very welcome!

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Patricia Anne Boone's avatar

Stop advertising this! Totally inappropriate!!

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Patricia Anne Boone's avatar

This is for these idiots advertising something for brain fog. Totally inappropriate.

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Teach84's avatar

You do realize, don’t you, that in four years it will be nearly impossible to return our country back to “normal” or the way it was? He has torn apart too many agencies and laws and relationships with allies, and on and on. He has dismantled the system of checks and balances and has made the executive branch the most powerful. If we ever do get him out of there, it will be years and years, not in our lifetimes, before America is restored to what she once was.

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Linda's avatar

That’s why we must rally continuously and not give up…Supreme Court should be where one of the biggest rallies should take place since they gave him the immunity…They reversed Roe vs Wade, why not the immunity…

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Barbara Hopper's avatar

In 4 years they will have corrupted the voting system to the point that it will be impossible to vote in anyone else but their hand-picked candidates. Women better start now rounding up the paperwork they need to satisfy all the weird stuff they are demanding.

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Candace Lucas's avatar

that's why he has to die now.

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Irene Finn's avatar

I hate to condone something like that, but I wouldn't shed a tear. I'd throw a party!

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Jean Conley's avatar

Can I come?????? I know that will be quite a party!

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Debra Slater's avatar

He dismantled it at lightning speed, but Democrats could also rebuild it at lightning speed. If we achieve a trifecta we could pass bills (e.g. overrule Citizens United) that would make another Republican president a very remote possibility.

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Susan A Dunkelberger's avatar

Yes, I so agree. It is awful, I'm 82, and will never see the America that I was fortunate to live with, not perfect, but beautiful non the less..

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Janice Darling's avatar

yes. infuriatingly true.

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Vel Santic's avatar

worse. if tRumputin-his reign of terror stay in 4 days it will be nearly, if not totally, impossible to return our country back to normal or the way it was. I can’t believe there are still NONtRumputinist folks who downplay the extreme urgency of the situation re: terroristic quisling & psychopath him&his entire reign of terror.

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Irene Finn's avatar

Love it- I got my shirt- I'm a proud member of Jack Smith's fan club!!!!

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Lori LaFontaine's avatar

I loved your comments. They are right on the mark. Why would it ever be ok for a felon to run the country?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Nobody thought that would ever be the case so did not make a contingency plan for should it ever be something to stop. Well, once we're out of this mess, a constitutional amendment needs to be passed so that it does not ever happen again.

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Those are awesome!

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

He intends to stay longer than four years, but he will be completely senile, or unalive by that time. I guess he thinks he will live forever. Maybe he made a pact with the Devil.

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May Lee's avatar

The Devil got "doged". Trump has taken his place because he knows more about how to run Hell better than anyone in the world. It's gonna be bigly better!

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Jean Conley's avatar

I'd say he certainly did. So did all of those who support him.

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Natalie's avatar

The world is watching, and running away from this madness.

Stay strong friends

🇨🇦💪🇨🇦

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Natalie's avatar

A bit of music for our American friends:

Crowded House

https://youtu.be/J9gKyRmic20?si=KAWinFjeO0EVu0Dq

🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

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Michelle G's avatar

Thanks for this. :)

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Kathy Smith's avatar

“Don’t let them win”

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Renee's avatar

Thank you.

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Warrior4Justice's avatar

YES!!! TY! Just what I needed...I sent it out through my social media. YES.

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vistajohnsons's avatar

Thank you. 😢🇺🇸

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

Excellent music from our New Zealand friends.

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Natalie's avatar

One from my homeland, our Christy Moore:

Lisdoonvarna

https://youtu.be/23GAwqE59GY?si=8DooBGMJHKei091c

There's joy in music, in laughter. 💚

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

I’m your neighbour from Australia. Love Crowded House.

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Natalie's avatar

I'm your neighbour from Canada, via Ireland. Love Crowded House, hailing from our neighbour New Zealand. Yes we're all neighbors, near and far. 😁🇨🇦

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

We are neighbours and friends in weird times and we all need to stay strong.

Love from Australia

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

Likewise from Australia 🇦🇺

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Inquiring Minds's avatar

🤣👏

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

The emperor is wearing no clothes.

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Karen Thompson's avatar

He convinced his Dr to lie.

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Suzanne H's avatar

😂😂😂

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Marilynn E Geer Kobza's avatar

Keep it up!! He's gonna stroke out!!

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Julie Strasenburgh Waterman's avatar

Wouldn’t that be lovely! JD Vance does not have the where for all to pull off a presidency! He will crash and burn as well!

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Jean Conley's avatar

No republiCRAP does!

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Sabra Perkins's avatar

Definitely

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Jeananne Hawking's avatar

We can only hope.

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Suzie's avatar

We should be so lucky. Then we would have chance and Johnson to worry about. Maybe the penguins will get them.

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Sabra Perkins's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Julie Strasenburgh Waterman's avatar

Yes, Mike Johnson is a huge hurdle. He has to go in order to impeach Trump. We have to have a majority in the house and a large majority in the Senate.

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Keep being loud! 

Use this spreadsheet to call/email/write any of our representatives as often as possible. Not just your own state reps, reach out to those in other states. Be as loud as you can and share this. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.” 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit

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Karen Loewenstern's avatar

This is so useful! Since I have great Democratic Senators I have been wondering how I can reach Senators in red states to express my views. Thanks so much. This is just what I needed. Write to the Supreme Court too!

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Same! It started with me calling with 5calls app, but not really getting through. So then I wanted to be able to email after my kids went to bed. When I realized my reference sheet might help others and together we could be really loud, I realized I needed to try to share it as often as possible.

I agree about SCOTUS too! There’s a link to contact them to the right of the Senators page 💙

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Karen Loewenstern's avatar

Thanks again!

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Jean Conley's avatar

Thanks for the info, Megan! I didn't realize that SCOTUS could be contacted!!!! I already know how to get in touch with my senators and congresswoman. By the way, I live in Washington and thank God our two senators are Democrats. They're great! We also FINALLY got a woman representative for the district I live in. She's a Democrat also. We did have a republican representative for years. He was sort of "in the middle" so he wasn't too bad. (It was also way before the Dump even got in the Oval Office the first time.). But we're in a better position now! (So is our country!)

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Harper's avatar

Karen - please hit up the Louisiana Representatives and both Senators - especially Kennedy, Higgins, Johnson - we’ll take care of the idiot governor

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JoMarieTerry's avatar

try Resistbot

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Cadijah Brown's avatar

Please make this shareable. Thanks for the info

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Megan Rothery's avatar

It is! Anyone with the link can view it. You should be able to just copy the URL and share it far and wide. I don’t need credit, I just want to help people be loud right now 🤞❤️‍🩹

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Karen Loewenstern's avatar

There is a share button to your right - I shared it on Facebook.

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Pat Anderson's avatar

Thank you, thank you we needed this.

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Make some noise ☺️

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Jean Conley's avatar

...and please--much louder than the Dictator Criminal Orange Buffoon Psycho's who is in the Oval Office.

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Anne Marie McLaughlin's avatar

Megan this is brilliant !! Ty I've been calling and emailing everyone , but this keeps it all organized. I'm going to share this ty for doing this.

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Linda Unger's avatar

Check out theshabbycreekcottage on Instagram- she is organizing a letter writing campaign.

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Awesome! There’s a group doing something similar if you search “Card Campaign” on Facebook. I need to put their link on my spreadsheet

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Linda Unger's avatar

Thanks! She has created templates she's giving away for the asking, all people have to do is put in the name/address of Congresspersons and their own, and mail 'em off. She includes templates for writing to the White House and Supreme Court as well.

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Megan Rothery's avatar

That’s great!

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Nazi DOGE Communicating US Government Information With Russia

WOW!! Whistleblower Dan Berulis has come forward despite a threatening letter emanating from somewhere within the Nazi regime Mr Berulis who is/was in the IT dept of the NLRB has evidence that its secure computer systems were breached by DOGE Not only has sensitive data been exposed to the public space but there have been attempts to download information to Russia through Starlink, Musk’s satellite system

Of course there are several aspects to this whistleblower information Berulis suggests that the NLRB system is not the only agency whose data has been compromised With his network of IT government employees who do the same thing that he does at NLRB there is strong suspicion that what has been modeled at NLRB has been taking place throughout the government agencies Now that all this private citizen information is in the hands of the Nazi party(aka GOP) what will be done with it? Use the data to hurt people, particularly oligarchs who have unfair labor practices like Musk and Bezos But it’s suggested that DOGE is in cahoots with the Russian government, a direct pipeline of information to the Kremlin This is constitutional and international terrorism

For what purposes would the Nazis want this private information? Some come to mind Death Master File(DMF) to affect immigrants and other people whose social security numbers can be deleted so that the affected can no longer function financially in the country(being wrongfully identified as dead leads to benefit termination causing financial hardship and distress) But another more insidious reason for the future, VOTER SUPPRESSION folks Pure and simple We are living in a police state creating a community of fear This is not only national security but a domestic security risk as well Could Berulis be sent to El Salvador?

Do not fight alone Better together than alone as we see protests unite us WE the People

For more see https://bit.ly/4jvIsrz

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Deb's avatar

Saw an article re: this earlier today. As someone who worked in IT in the security arena, this makes my blood run cold. We were subject to federal regs and that is (was?) something you did NOT mess up. Yikes. We are all so at risk and many, many don’t have a clue bc they don’t have the background & aren’t aware. Really scary times.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

AMEN Spread the word sister

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Deb's avatar

Doing my best

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Michelle G's avatar

This was horrifying when I watched the segment on Rachel Maddow last night. Mr. Berulis is a courageous hero! Thank you sir, stay strong. :)

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michael's avatar

To: Donald J. Trump, Republican Senators, Members of Congress, and Every Complicit Official

From: The Free People of the United States

Re: Your Final Warning—Obey the Law or Be Removed

You have once again stained the highest office in the land, and your return to power has only magnified your contempt for truth, decency, and the Constitution itself. You are openly refusing to comply with lawful judicial orders. You are lying, stealing, and cheating—exactly as you have done your entire public life—and now you presume to defy the courts, the Constitution, and the American people with impunity.

Let this be a declaration, not a plea:

You will be held in contempt. You will be arrested. You will be impeached.

And every single official—whether a Senator, a Congressmember, a cabinet secretary, a federal employee, or even a lowly janitor at the Department of Justice—who knowingly enables your lawless behavior will face the same fate. No more hiding behind titles. No more dodging responsibility. You are all on notice.

The Rule of Law is Not Optional

The Constitution is not a set of polite suggestions. Judicial orders are not campaign slogans. They are binding and enforceable, and your refusal to carry them out is a clear violation of:

Article III of the U.S. Constitution – Judicial power is vested in the courts, not the executive branch.

18 U.S. Code § 401 – Criminal contempt of court.

5 U.S. Code § 3331 – Your oath of office, which you have desecrated.

Article II, Section 4 – Grounds for impeachment, which you continue to multiply with every illegal act.

Separation of Powers Doctrine – Which you are now actively seeking to destroy.

If you cannot respect the courts, you will be restrained by them.

If you cannot obey the law, you will be punished by it.

If you cannot uphold your oath, you will be stripped of your office.

To Every Republican in Congress:

Your silence is complicity. Your cowardice is betrayal. Your loyalty to a man over your duty to the Constitution is treason in slow motion. If you do not speak out, act out, and stop this madness now—you will be remembered not as public servants, but as enablers of authoritarian rot.

If you support or ignore Trump’s contempt of court, we will not only impeach him, but we will move to expel you, prosecute you, and strip every last privilege and protection from your corrupted hands.

We are not fooled by your appeals to "law and order"—when you only apply them to the poor, the powerless, or the politically inconvenient. Your hypocrisy is documented. Your crimes will be too.

To the Justice Department and Federal Agencies:

Every employee who refuses to enforce the law—from the Attorney General to the janitor who shreds the paper—is now part of the problem. And we will root you out. Department by department. Office by office. Room by room. It will not take long to find men and women with actual courage, conscience, and integrity—those who still remember what public service means.

This is a Reckoning

We are no longer debating. We are not begging. We are demanding compliance with the law—or else.

Your reign of deception ends here. Your mob-style intimidation, your abuse of federal power, your grotesque manipulation of patriotism—it all ends here.

We will not rest until:

Every court order is obeyed,

Every crime is prosecuted,

Every corrupt official is exposed,

And the people’s house is no longer occupied by criminals in suits.

You were elected by a narrow sliver of a brainwashed public. But you serve all of us. And we’re watching. We’re organizing. And we will hold you accountable, even if it takes the full weight of civil resistance, mass lawsuits, global condemnation, and new legislative firepower to do it.

History Will Not Forget—And Neither Will We

You will not bury the truth beneath your lies. You will not suppress democracy with threats. And you will not outlast the will of a nation that remembers who it is.

We are not afraid of you.

We are the people.

And you serve us—or you will fall.

Signed,

Every American Who Still Believes in the Constitution

And Will Defend It with Their Last Breath

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Kimberlee Ratzlaff's avatar

Well here is another little tid bit. Those funds he is using to pay for torture are not in the line item budget! Where is he getting that sort of money without misappropriation of funds? Good grief almighty!

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Larry Harris's avatar

Von Shitzinpantz is nuts and his Gaggle of White Christian Nationalist Fascist Goons need to be held accountable.

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SeekingReason's avatar

Larry, I agree. If they don’t go to prison, we will encourage more of this.

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SeekingReason's avatar

The trump admin is defying a court order by all 9 Supreme Court justices. ARREST THESE PEOPLE! Military: are you going to protect the Constitution or not?

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Marcie Winter's avatar

Waiting for good news. If it shows up in the obits, that wouldn’t make me sad

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Barb's avatar

Wouldn’t make me sad either, but I think that we need a lot more than his death, or even Vance and Musk’s as well, to stop the nuclear destruction that he has been carrying out daily on our Democracy and freedom. That said, it would really cheer me up to see MTG take a one way trip into space.

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JoMarieTerry's avatar

Try Resistbot

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Alastriona's avatar

Wanton cruelty is Trump’s whole point.

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oya atashkarian's avatar

Yes keeping the pressure on trump as well as his MAGA supporters in congress!! These ‘congress’ men and women have the power to stop him!! We must take back the house and senate but will our elections be fair and safe! ? Will these MAGA maniacs try and steal drop boxes!? How will be protect our votes!! Something wrong happened in this presidential election all swing states went to trump? No fuking way. We still must investigate it

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Ms. Lee's avatar

We have an incompetent old man with old ideas as the leader of what use to be the free world | posting miners with faces covered in soot | well a lot of them died from black lung disease and this will happen again since trumps plan is to deregulate anything that will protect them all for the sake of profits for him and his rich pals | trump is living in the 1930’s

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Amaya Fernandez's avatar

MAGA getting their jobs back in the mines and fields. ✌️😎💜

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Amaya Fernandez's avatar

The Gaslighter in Chief‼️🙄🙄🙄

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Jorge Rodriguez's avatar

Did you hear about the tariffs on the Mexican tomatoes? Mexican president says that she is not concerned about the tariffs , she said that if it comes to negotiations Mexico always wins , they know Trump is weak .

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-impose-21-tariff-mexican-231939713.html

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E. C.'s avatar

Let his idiotic regime crumble to the ground with those complicit sent to the el Salvadoran prison he is so obsessed about.

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SeekingReason's avatar

Exchange the people unjustly kidnapped to El Salvador for the republican party! I’d consider that fair!

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Kimya Norene's avatar

I do not think millions voted for him, I think millions voted for Kamala but the voting machines were compromised by his current young tech team probably as young as his son.. we’ve been duped.

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Kathy H's avatar

An equal concern going forward is voter suppression. It is escalating.

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Julia frascona's avatar

We need to keep shining a very bright spotlight on every damn disgusting thing that is taking place. Although our grief and dismay are overwhelming, we cannot let our own lights of hope, no matter how small, go out.

I am so grateful for all that you and your brothers are doing. Your courage and determination keeps me going.

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michael's avatar

To: Donald J. Trump, Republican Senators, Members of Congress, and Every Complicit Official

From: The Free People of the United States

Re: Your Final Warning—Obey the Law or Be Removed

You have once again stained the highest office in the land, and your return to power has only magnified your contempt for truth, decency, and the Constitution itself. You are openly refusing to comply with lawful judicial orders. You are lying, stealing, and cheating—exactly as you have done your entire public life—and now you presume to defy the courts, the Constitution, and the American people with impunity.

Let this be a declaration, not a plea:

You will be held in contempt. You will be arrested. You will be impeached.

And every single official—whether a Senator, a Congressmember, a cabinet secretary, a federal employee, or even a lowly janitor at the Department of Justice—who knowingly enables your lawless behavior will face the same fate. No more hiding behind titles. No more dodging responsibility. You are all on notice.

The Rule of Law is Not Optional

The Constitution is not a set of polite suggestions. Judicial orders are not campaign slogans. They are binding and enforceable, and your refusal to carry them out is a clear violation of:

Article III of the U.S. Constitution – Judicial power is vested in the courts, not the executive branch.

18 U.S. Code § 401 – Criminal contempt of court.

5 U.S. Code § 3331 – Your oath of office, which you have desecrated.

Article II, Section 4 – Grounds for impeachment, which you continue to multiply with every illegal act.

Separation of Powers Doctrine – Which you are now actively seeking to destroy.

If you cannot respect the courts, you will be restrained by them.

If you cannot obey the law, you will be punished by it.

If you cannot uphold your oath, you will be stripped of your office.

To Every Republican in Congress:

Your silence is complicity. Your cowardice is betrayal. Your loyalty to a man over your duty to the Constitution is treason in slow motion. If you do not speak out, act out, and stop this madness now—you will be remembered not as public servants, but as enablers of authoritarian rot.

If you support or ignore Trump’s contempt of court, we will not only impeach him, but we will move to expel you, prosecute you, and strip every last privilege and protection from your corrupted hands.

We are not fooled by your appeals to "law and order"—when you only apply them to the poor, the powerless, or the politically inconvenient. Your hypocrisy is documented. Your crimes will be too.

To the Justice Department and Federal Agencies:

Every employee who refuses to enforce the law—from the Attorney General to the janitor who shreds the paper—is now part of the problem. And we will root you out. Department by department. Office by office. Room by room. It will not take long to find men and women with actual courage, conscience, and integrity—those who still remember what public service means.

This is a Reckoning

We are no longer debating. We are not begging. We are demanding compliance with the law—or else.

Your reign of deception ends here. Your mob-style intimidation, your abuse of federal power, your grotesque manipulation of patriotism—it all ends here.

We will not rest until:

Every court order is obeyed,

Every crime is prosecuted,

Every corrupt official is exposed,

And the people’s house is no longer occupied by criminals in suits.

You were elected by a narrow sliver of a brainwashed public. But you serve all of us. And we’re watching. We’re organizing. And we will hold you accountable, even if it takes the full weight of civil resistance, mass lawsuits, global condemnation, and new legislative firepower to do it.

History Will Not Forget—And Neither Will We

You will not bury the truth beneath your lies. You will not suppress democracy with threats. And you will not outlast the will of a nation that remembers who it is.

We are not afraid of you.

We are the people.

And you serve us—or you will fall.

Signed,

Every American Who Still Believes in the Constitution

And Will Defend It with Their Last Breath

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Chris's avatar

Very well written. Totally agree with all of it!

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michael's avatar

As of May 15, 2025, the Republican-led budget reconciliation bill—often referred to as the “big, beautiful bill”—is facing significant internal opposition, delaying its progress toward a House vote initially targeted for Memorial Day weekend. House Speaker Mike Johnson is contending with dissent from ultraconservative members who demand deeper Medicaid cuts and stricter work requirements, as well as moderates concerned about the bill's impact on constituents and fiscal implications. https://apnews.com/article/5588a1ba31875e5a4a2e23564244851b?utm_source=chatgpt.comhttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/15/megabill-teeters-after-hard-liners-make-their-stand-00352892?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Key Provisions of the Bill

The bill proposes substantial tax cuts and spending reductions, including:

$715 billion in Medicaid cuts, introducing work requirements and eligibility checks that could affect over 10 million people.

$351 billion in cuts to student aid, limiting Pell Grant eligibility and repealing student debt forgiveness programs.

$50 billion in cuts to the Federal Employee Retirement System, reducing take-home pay and retirement benefits.

Significant reductions in funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and dissolution of the Public Accounting Oversight Board.

New taxes on electric and hybrid vehicles and elimination of funding for green energy programs authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

$25 billion allocated for a “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, involving space-based assets.

Limitations on federal judges’ authority to hold government officials in contempt of court.

Current Status

The House Budget Committee is scheduled to meet on Friday to address the bill, but internal divisions may delay further progress. Speaker Johnson aims for a floor vote next week, but with a slim majority and no Democratic support expected, the bill's passage remains uncertain. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/15/megabill-teeters-after-hard-liners-make-their-stand-00352892?utm_source=chatgpt.comhttps://www.wsj.com/politics/gop-tax-bill-speaker-mike-johnson-01456ff6?utm_source=chatgpt.com

How You Can Take Action

To oppose this bill, consider the following steps:

Contact Your Representative: Call or email your House representative to express your concerns about the bill's provisions, especially those affecting healthcare, education, and environmental programs.

Engage with Senators: Reach out to your state's senators to voice your opposition, as the bill will require Senate approval after passing the House.

Participate in Public Forums: Attend town halls or public meetings to discuss the bill's impact and encourage others to take action.

Spread Awareness: Use social media and community networks to inform others about the bill's contents and potential consequences.

Support Advocacy Groups: Collaborate with organizations working to protect healthcare, education, and environmental funding to amplify your efforts.

By taking these steps, you can contribute to the collective effort to oppose the bill and advocate for policies that prioritize the well-being of all citizens.

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Fox News: America's Most Dangerous Domestic Threat — And How We Can Shut It Down

For decades, Americans feared enemies abroad. But today, our greatest threat to democracy comes from within: Fox News — a 24/7 disinformation infomercial that has poisoned public discourse, promoted conspiracy theories, and radicalized millions against their own country.

Fox News is not a legitimate news outlet. It is a propaganda machine whose mission is simple: Lie, incite, divide, and conquer.

Even President Obama — normally cautious with his words — said Fox was “destructive” to American society, likening it to yellow journalism of the Hearst era. Yet tragically, he did not act — and today, we are living with the catastrophic results.

Fox News helped create Trump. Fox News fueled January 6th. Fox News spread vaccine lies that killed thousands. Fox News normalized hatred, violence, and authoritarianism.

It is time to stop them.

📺 Fox News Survives Because of Cable Companies — and You Are Paying for It

Despite declining ad revenue, Fox News earns over $1.5 billion per year through cable carriage fees (Los Angeles Times). Companies like Comcast (Xfinity), Charter (Spectrum), Cox Communications, and DirecTV automatically bundle Fox News into your basic cable package. You are funding Fox even if you never watch it.

We can change that.

Here’s how:

📞 Contact Cable Providers

Demand that they drop Fox News or allow you to opt out of paying for it. Here are the numbers:

Comcast/Xfinity: 1-800-934-6489

Charter/Spectrum: 1-833-267-6094

Cox Communications: 1-800-234-3993

DirecTV: 1-800-531-5000

Use resources from https://www.nofoxfee.com and https://www.commoncause.org to help guide your conversations.

📺 Adjust Your Subscription

Parental Controls: Block Fox News on your household devices.

Ask for Cable Downgrades: Some companies offer packages that exclude Fox — you just have to demand it.

Switch to Streaming: Cut your cable entirely and subscribe only to responsible, independent news sources.

📝 Petitions and Mass Action

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/have-fox-news-removed

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/deplatform-fox-join-robert-reich-and-demand-cable-companies-including-comcast-charter-and-att-take-dangerous-disinformation-off-the-air-now

Every signature counts. Every call counts. Every cancellation counts.

💰 Target Fox's Major Advertisers

Fox News is vulnerable because it needs advertising money.

Contact these advertisers and demand they stop supporting disinformation:

MyPillow (major advertiser during prime time)

HomeAdvisor

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Sandals Resorts

Verizon

General Motors (GMC, Chevrolet)

Pfizer (Yes — call them out)

Tempur-Pedic

Use Media Matters' Stop Funding Fox page to track current sponsors.

📚 Understand the Fox Propaganda Model

Fox News is not unique — it follows a long history of manipulating the public. Just like William Randolph Hearst’s yellow journalism, Fox invents and twists facts to whip up hysteria and anger (Library of Congress).

Today, it’s even worse:

Sean Hannity admitted under oath he knew the election fraud claims he promoted were false (NPR).

Tucker Carlson’s private texts show he didn’t believe Trump’s election lies, even as he pushed them nightly (PBS).

They lied knowingly — to keep ratings high and their audiences enraged.

⚖️ Legal Barriers and Consumer Action

Can the government shut Fox down? Not easily. The First Amendment protects even deliberate liars — as long as they're not committing defamation directly.

Fox has no FCC license. Because it's cable (not over-the-air broadcast), it’s harder to regulate. But:

Consumer pressure works.

Advertiser boycotts work.

Petitions and lawsuits work.

In the case of the Dominion lawsuit, Fox had to pay $787 million for lying about election fraud (NPR).

We can hurt them where it counts: Money. Reputation. Market access.

🌎 Major Resources to Use and Share

Petition and Activism Sites:

https://www.nofoxfee.com

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/have-fox-news-removed

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/deplatform-fox-join-robert-reich-and-demand-cable-companies-including-comcast-charter-and-att-take-dangerous-disinformation-off-the-air-now

https://www.commoncause.org

Fact-Checking and Media Literacy Sites:

https://www.mediamatters.org

https://www.factcheck.org

https://www.snopes.com

https://newslit.org

https://adfontesmedia.com

📚 Essential Books on Disinformation and Propaganda

Manufacturing Consent – Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

The Misinformation Age – Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall

Network Propaganda – Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts

Weaponized Lies – Daniel J. Levitin

Post-Truth – Lee McIntyre

How Fascism Works – Jason Stanley

Republic of Lies – Anna Merlan

Calling Bullshit – Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

The Death of Expertise – Tom Nichols

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies – Donald A. Barclay

🧠 Final Word: We Must Shut Fox Down to Save Democracy

Fox News is not journalism. It is weaponized disinformation. It is the single largest driver of division, hate, and ignorance in modern American history.

It brainwashed a third of the country. It enabled a fascist coup attempt. It cost lives during the pandemic. It is a domestic enemy of the Constitution.

We can't rely on Congress to fix it — not yet. But we the people can take action:

Cancel cable packages.

Pressure cable companies.

Pressure advertisers.

Educate ourselves and others.

Build a future where truth matters again.

Truth is patriotic. Lies are not. Fox must go.

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Steve and Judy Sparks's avatar

There's great anxiety right now! It's becoming very difficult to listen or read the news. I do appreciate MTN. Thank you!

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Amaya Fernandez's avatar

I’ve asked several MAGAts to please tell me what the plan they voted for is so that I can hedge my losses?

Are we moving to crypto, which one? Should I get a HELOC to not lose the equity in my home.. AGAIN? Should I buy GOLD stock bc they are going to revalue it? What should we do to protect ourselves from the devaluation of the dollar? Should I get my dual citizenship with Spain and plan to leave? Should I trade $ for € or £?

Surprisingly, they have no f’ing idea wtf I’m even talking about‼️

The answer… In about a year, we’ll all be doing good‼️Ok, great, HOW? Again, no f’ing idea‼️OMFG‼️🤬🤬🤬

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Cathy Key's avatar

When does this fool sleep? Someone should take away his phone and computer and tell him to go to .bed

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

Oh trumpet and all his regime is crazy. He is unraveling himself and his side kicks. Good to see. The dementia is starting to him him hard.

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LuckyisLucky's avatar

HE'S GETTING WORST DAY AFTER DAY. Don't be SILENCE ANYMORE. The longer we wait the Harder it will be to Stop project 2025 . FACT. We are AMERICA. WE have to CONSTITUTION to protect at all costs. Be safe and get involved. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.

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Cindy's avatar

Yes Trump is destroying America 🇺🇸 Biden had a great America 🇺🇸

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Ronald Gersh's avatar

This shit stain emperor needs to be reminded that he has no clothes all the time because he's freaking delusional and very stupid!

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Viktor's avatar

It was $5 for gas station coffee

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Kathy H's avatar

Wow.

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Kathy H's avatar

Wow.

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Jill Andrea Rivkin's avatar

What about healthcare for coal miners?

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Sarah Larkin's avatar

He needs to be removed! Time to invoke the 25th Amendment! Without Trump, many of the GOP will no longer need to kiss the ring, and can come out and start fixing what Trump/Muskrat have already torn asunder.

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john rawson's avatar

'Trump is unravelling' - be wearing a Napoleon Bonaparte costume soon!

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Martha Kenne's avatar

It would be great if he imploded.

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Anne Marie McLaughlin's avatar

Hi everyone. I wanted to encourage or ask that you consider checking out BandyLee.com. Dr. Bandy X. LEE she is on substack as well. She is a forensic Psychiatrist who has been warning of the dangerousness of DJT since 2016/2017. If you check out her website you will the books she has authored. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists Assess a President can be downloaded from your library for free. She is also a Violence prevention expert. She explains why DJT needs a hug, metaphorically that is. She explains that as a forensic Psychiatrist she and her colleagues from the World Mental Health Coalition have the expertise to help educate medically so that our Congressional Leaders can Intervene to contain the regime. Our Leaders must urgently consult with mental health experts. Ty

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Carmen Louise's avatar

Dr. Lee says that "Fascism is mental pathology in politics". I agree. She and others are working on a way to prevent fascism, so humanity doesn't ever have to endure the utter waste, death and despair from fascism's manifestation. So much of humanity and the earth's resources have been wasted in the maw of these terrible personalities. What a world it would be to never have to deal with them again!

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Anne Marie McLaughlin's avatar

Ty for your post! We need our Congressional Leaders to call her now.

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Patricia Anne Boone's avatar

I wouldn’t hug that bastard even if I was paid to!! Slimy nasty!! 🤢🤢🤮

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Teresa's avatar

I also think this summary is incredibly important about what the DNC should be doing to be proactive not reactive - thanks Dr PAul Lee:

Pru Pru's Post

Dear Democratic Party,

I need more from you.

You keep sending emails begging for $15,

while we’re watching fascism consolidate power in real time.

This administration is not simply “a different ideology.”

It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine — with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control.

And you?

You’re still asking for decorum and donations. WTF.

That won’t save us.

I don’t want to hear another polite floor speech.

I want strategy.

I want fire.

I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle — not fits inside one.

Every time I see something from the DNC, it’s asking me for funds.

Surprise.

Those of us who donate don’t want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking your heads and saying,

“Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.”

I call bullshit.

If you don’t know how to think outside the box…

If you don’t know how to strategize…

If you don’t know how to fight fire with fire…

what the hell are we giving you money for?

Some of us have two or three advanced degrees.

Some of us have military training.

Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like — and this ain’t it.

Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.

The speeches? Nice.

The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.

That was great for giving hope.

Now we need action.

You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.

We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.

Look at the disappearances.

Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.

If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.

So here’s what I need from you — right now:

1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.

I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.

Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.

Make it public. Make it unshakable.

Let the people drag the rot into the light.

If you can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.

If Congress won’t act, let the country act.

This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts.

Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.

And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented.

You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution.

The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.

2. Join the International Criminal Court.

Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.

You cannot control what the other side does.

But you can control your own integrity.

So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.

Join.

If you’ve got nothing to hide — join.

Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.

Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.

And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.

Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight.

3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.

Don’t just send postcards. Send resources.

Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.

If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.

If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.

This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge.

Stop campaigning.

Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is.

We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries.

Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.

And let’s be clear:

The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.

They prepared for this.

They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.

They built a machine while you wrote press releases.

We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years.

It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint.

You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 —

a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.

You should be publicly laying out:

• The laws and amendments you’ll pass to ensure this never happens again

• The systems you’ll tear down and the safeguards you’ll enshrine

• The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable

• The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador

You say you’re the party of the people?

Then show the people the plan.

4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.

If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth.

Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.

Give people tools, not soundbites.

We don’t need more slogans.

We need survival manuals.

5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.

Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.

They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism.

Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.

Make what’s happening in America a global scandal.

And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.

Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.

That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up.

If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them.

Get creative. Go underground. Go global.

If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it.

6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.

Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.

Some are scared. Some want out.

Build the channels.

Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.

Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.

And while you’re at it?

Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.

Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones.

We are not the bullies.

We are not the ones filled with hate.

And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.

They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.

But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd.

We don’t need purity.

We need numbers.

We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.

7. Study the collapse—and the comeback.

You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.

They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.

They went after the structure.

The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.

They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time —

until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on.

And his power crumbled beneath him.

You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025,

every aide who defies court orders,

every communications director repeating lies,

every policy writer enabling cruelty,

every water boy who keeps this engine running.

You can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down.

You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.

Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.

They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.

A M E R I C A N S.

And your biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email.

We don’t want your urgently fundraising subject lines.

We want backbone.

We want action.

We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently.

We are watching.

And I don’t just mean your base.

I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening.

I’ve only got 6,000 followers — but the groups I’m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.

Often when I speak, it echoes.

But when we ALL

speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.

We need to be deafening.

You still have a chance to do something historic.

To be remembered for courage, not caution.

To go down as the party that didn’t just watch the fall — but fought the hell back with everything they had.

But the clock is ticking.

And the deportation buses are idling.

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Hi, my name is Pru. I’m the author. Yes you may share and disseminate this freely. You can cite me as the author: Dr. Pru Lee

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Amaya Fernandez's avatar

I HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU BUT, GIRLS AND WOMEN ARE UNSAFE AROUND THIS CABINET, ADMINISTRATION, MAGA MEN AND UNDER DJT’s “VISION” , PAMMY. AS IN, ALL OF US ARE UNSAFE‼️✌️😎💜

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Lynette Mason's avatar

Pam Bondi is truly disgusting!

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Joan Fregapane's avatar

I think there should be a concerted effort by politicians, journalists, podcasters, Democrats, etc. to broadcast over and over that DT is too ‘weak’ and too ‘distracted’, and too ‘ineffectual’ to persuade El Salvador to return the man the SCOTUS ruled that he should. Let it seem that a strong leader would persuade President Bukele to return him as a favor to Trump, but that even after paying for these immigrants’ detention and supposedly being such good friends, Trump couldn’t make a deal with Bukele. Enough of that kind of talk, and Trump would rush to have him released!

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Lulu Fraser's avatar

Yes. The spin should that Trump bends a knee to Bukele.

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Dino Alonso's avatar

Let’s call it what it is: Trump isn’t campaigning. He’s combusting—one unhinged post at a time. Midnight rage spasms, economic fiction, fascist fan fiction—this is not leadership. It’s a meltdown in slow motion, broadcast live on a social platform bleeding cash and credibility like a Vegas casino without the drinks.

The media tiptoes around it, but we won’t: Trump is spiraling. His late-night tantrums aren’t “strategy.” They’re the digital equivalent of flipping tables in a panic room while the walls close in. And make no mistake—they are closing in.

He shouts “Make America Great Again” while gutting American jobs with tariffs so reckless they could have been drafted by a drunk intern with a grudge against breakfast. Coffee prices exploding, mortgages soaring, factories shuttering—and he posts soot-covered miners like it’s 1947. Nostalgia isn’t a plan. It’s a smokescreen.

And the irony? Those miners deserve better. They deserve healthcare, union protection, climate-safe infrastructure jobs—not to be paraded like mascots for a fantasy economy while billionaires like Musk and Trump offshore everything that isn’t bolted to the floor.

Meanwhile, his goon squad is playing fascist cosplay with our public schools, suing the state of Maine over two transgender teens while threatening to yank meals from 172,000 kids. That’s not policy. That’s sadism in a press release.

Let’s not forget his latest Orwellian meltdown over higher ed. Trump wants Harvard to conduct political audits of students and faculty? What’s next, required loyalty oaths before midterms? The man isn’t preserving freedom. He’s piloting a handbasket directly to authoritarian hell.

And don’t even get us started on Trump’s new running mate audition series. Stefanik, Gaetz, and a harem of sycophants all competing to parrot his lies on an app so dysfunctional it makes MySpace look like a modern democracy. It’s reality TV with gulags and rising interest rates.

The icing? While our supply chains buckle and American families are squeezed dry, Trump’s number one priority is vengeance—vengeance against allies, against journalists, against transgender teens, and against the truth.

He’s not unraveling because things are going badly. He’s unraveling because he knows it’s his fault. And now, all he has left are slogans, tantrums, and lawsuits that reek of desperation.

So yes—let’s keep the pressure on. Keep speaking out. Keep pointing to the wreckage and saying plainly: This is what authoritarianism looks like when it’s failing. It’s loud, it’s erratic, and it’s dangerous. But it’s also fragile.

And that’s why it must be defeated—utterly, publicly, and without apology.

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Larry's avatar

Yes. Trump is dismantling America and the Constitution. May the backbone and moral integrity of SOME on the Supreme Court soon be found.

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The Bitch Folder's avatar

Is it REALLY falling apart? Or is this just another tease?

I’ve been hearing “Trump is going down” for 10 years now.

Ten. Fvcking. Years.

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Kathy H's avatar

I know, right? It's like a horror story with the evil entity that keeps coming back to life so much worse than ever imaginable.

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Nensus's avatar

Trump is a malignant tumor on whatever he touches

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Patricia Brady-Danzig's avatar

Trump should be the first criminal citizen sent away.

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Cat's avatar
Apr 16Edited

The man is nuts! There is nothing remotely normal about him. And all those in his administration and the GOP Congress who allow this to happen should be held accountable as well. I’m not sure we can all hang on until the mid term elections. Having just retired, my retirement is tanking and I doubt I can make up the difference without going back to work. It’s great people are suing him and he is losing. But what can we do to stop this madness?!

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Michael Tardiff's avatar

Good. Maybe this desperate blitz was their last pathetic shot. They banked on Americans being too complacent to question the lies, assuming their empty words would be enough to drown out the truth. They swallowed their own propaganda and didn’t even bother to deliver on a single damn promise. Arrogant, lazy, and utterly disconnected from the people they claim to represent.

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Deni Jack's avatar

Nuts

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SimoneDelavega's avatar

There are around 5000 humans in a Roman legion. This is like Nazi lebensborn(Aryan men told to have out of wedlock Aryan children) but this time only one father and he’s using “enhanced” DNA sperm- ???Neurolink monkey cruelty experiments are bad enough. We are all things to “experiment” with to this man with a God complex.

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Deb Gwynn's avatar

So I guess PB missed the part where dump walked in on teenaged girls dressing rooms while they were changing. He is one sick MF'r!

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Kathy H's avatar

It frickin' freaks me out the way she presents this with such evangelical fervor, saying boys undressing & BEATING girls...really painting a picture of defending girls against victimization. I don't understand why it isn't being talked about more, what's really involved in the competition process. Especially what more female athletes think, not the select "poster child" they make for every issue. The narrative is always leftist extremist operatives perverting children...when there is much more evidence that abusing kids is exactly what they are doing. No doubt this is messing up the young people they are pretending to be protecting, too.

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Rosemary's avatar

So they’re going to protect the women from having transgender’s play sports next to them but if that same woman gets pregnant and has a non-viable pregnancy they will let her die! Got it🤬😡👺😈

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Mark Lambert's avatar

Yes prices are CRAZY.. I went to the grocery store today and was confused as to why so many items I bought were about 50% higher than the price marked on the shelves and the store manager told me that their daily price increases are coming in faster than they can get in the new shelf tags and as soon as they change the tag all the items go up even more.. Trump and the republicans are enjoying starving everyone to death I guess so they can get those billionaires more money to greedily horde .. My best friend in real estate told me many of her clients are pulling out of contracts because of the sudden spikes in mortgage interest rates adding tens of thousands of dollars to an already high price average homes. She’s terrified of having to possibly file for bankruptcy if it keeps on this way or god forbid gets even worse as predicted. It’s just so infuriating that it was racism and the inability for others to live and let live and OH.. the damn price of eggs that made them go against all the many warnings that this catastrophe would happen if they ever allowed the vengeful, angry and most definitely Russian compromised Donald Trump to regain any power in this nation. They were dumb enough to believe every crazy lie and promise of greatness Trump and the republicans promised them that every professional and economist on the planet told them was a blatant lie. It’s just so ridiculous that these uneducated angry racist people are allowed to blow up our nation, economy and security because they dream in only white, male and straight. Our nation is literally the embarrassment of the world as everyone everywhere else is either saying that America isn’t as perfect and safe from dictatorship as it portrayed itself and now were learning a much needed lesson or their very worried and praying that we defeat this hostile takeover posing as a United States president and lawless republican administration who promised to abide by the rules when they took their oaths to defend our nation and the Constitution but LIED, LIED, LIED as has become their standard.

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ShelbyRae Lane's avatar

Thank God for MTN and actual FACTS about what's actually happening. We're all hit 24/7 with the Musk-Trump paid bot, and paid influencers telling lie after lie, after lie. It's obnoxious and so ridiculous and so OBVIOUS that they're deliberately lying to us every single day.

Elbows UP MTN and all the American citizens who refuse to accept this BS as reality. We will NOT be gaslit by a cadre of psychos, and a diaper wearing, demented, deranged, old despot.

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Linda's avatar

It’s so tiring to see the same old scripts that Trump uses time and time again because he’s convinced his lies are working…News flash Trumps some people who believed in you are getting tired too…See the writing on the wall…You’re Fired…

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Dwight Keener's avatar

Already feeling the tariff fallout. I build municipal parks and playgrounds and went to purchase removable crash bollards, last month they cost me $1500.00 each, today they cost me $2625.00 for the same bollard! 75% increase in just one month!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

So sorry, Dwight.

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Yvette N Hath's avatar

What a pathetic man. He crazy posts all night long because his wife hasn't shared a bedroom with him in YEARS.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

I personally think he's on something.

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Kathy H's avatar

Well, the raging hormones of mental illness are a lot to be on..but his behavior follows a pattern of rumored Adderall use. Sure never saw that debunked. Substance abuse (Adderall is speed) added to pathology sure doesn't help, lol!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

I also wonder if he might have bipolar disorder.

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Kathy H's avatar

There are clearly extreme mood swings, we've never had anyone less self-possessed, lol. Regardless of the pathology, it isn't something we can allow to control our government. Apparently, a lot of people thought this could work for them, but nothing good is going to come out of it, it's unhealthy, destructive behavior. He can get therapy in prison. That's what he needs & that's where he belongs.

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Marlene Platcek's avatar

My opinion (he shouldn't be called president),has NO LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

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Gwen Diehn's avatar

I prefer PiNO (prez in name only) or Mr. PiNO Sir! Such a fool..

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Pat Sevigny's avatar

I was wondering who those 2 girls were behind Pam bondi [ they looked tortured & so so uncomfortable] then she turned to them to say how long they ve been swimming. Nobody cares about teangender in sports and neither would these maga insecure if they actually used their brain to look at the numbers. Concord nh has 1. 4 parents r making her life miserable even though they have been shut down by a judge. Guess what? The kids on all the teams DONT care!!!! My goodness!!! Whenever t---p is losing he yells" transgender! He's pathetic.

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Sandra Trimble's avatar

Why do we have to listen to this maga bimbo?

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Kathy H's avatar

We are non-consensual hostages!

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S. Rose Smith-Hayes's avatar

Amendment 25 and Articles of Impeachment for 45/47/ Vance and Johnson, immediately.

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Hannah Christine's avatar

I’m sorry, but the absolutely lunacy of it all. And isn’t this “no boy walking into a woman’s changing room” under the same President that bought a bunch of pageants and repeatedly walked in on these women changing? Admitted it in multiple interviews? Yet no outrage about that. Just something that stood out to me in this among other things.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

He isn't "into" leading by example... Every screaming message is an admission of guilt.

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Candy Schmitz's avatar

I work in social service field and every day I worry my career has been cut or removed 😢

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Miriam Polli's avatar

I just heard that the Government is paying to keep Garcia in El Salvador.

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Debra Slater's avatar

Well, I think I read the contract has the US paying El Salvador $6 million, so that should cover it.

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john augustine's avatar

I hope someone reads this to let Ben know that in addition to Trumps lies about coal miners, he should let members know that the regime has also fired personnel from the agencies tasked with keeping miners safe from disasters and injuries at the NIOSH (CDC) and MSHA (DoL) agencies so the clown is making it much less safe to be a miner in the US.

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Jane's avatar

Bondi never mentioned even ONE woman who lost to a trans youth! It's all conjecture and possible in her mind = but it doesn't seem to have an teeth!

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Val Ann's avatar

His temper may have something to do with Rachel Maddox’s show last night concerning the whistle blower on Doge. Huge story if it pans out.

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Janice Darling's avatar

I promised I wouldn't, but it seems that every day I have a screaming fit with the computer screen at how cruel, stupid and vile our head of government is. Ripping the good our country does to shreds (Harvard's medical research for example) to appease his writhing ego and inflict the maximum pain on anyone his blindly flailing arms can reach. Since when has ANY president grabbed and wielded and abused such power? Get this man out of office before the dust from the destruction chokes us all.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Make America Great with Child Labor Again. Sure. Trump's head is 100 years in the past.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

When are some of these self-proclaimed, self-absorbed, so called macho men, in the GOP and MAGA, going to stand up to felon, predator, traitor Trump, FOR OUR COUNTRY, DEMOCRACY, CONSTITUTION, RULE OF LAW?!

So far they have proven to be lying spineless cowardly traitors, who continue to kiss Trump's ass for a buck, and for Iawless unlimited power!

How do they even look their children, families, and constituents in the eyes, while betraying them all every day.

They will all be recorded in history, as a complete corrupt disgrace, traitors to the United States of America, who chose to turn their backs on the USA, betray us, and team with wannabe dictator Trump, communist murderous Putin, and for stomping all over our Constitution, laws, and the people of the United States of America. This is their legacy.

TRUMP + GOP + MAGA = TRAITORS

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

Trump is unraveling assumes he was ever "raveled" in the first place.

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Kathy H's avatar

Lol!

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Maryann W's avatar

Biden never talked much about what he did because those who can and do don't need to brag about it. It is evident. Those who can't have to convince everyone they are and can. One of the best things I have seen about tRump is 'He is an arsonist who expects a medal for putting out the fire'.

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Harvey'sdad's avatar

Keep pushing Meidas. As more and more people read and listen to your articles/videos, more and more will get the information and hopefully stop believing all of the "crap" that Trump and his lackeys are peddling. I did see in one video I looked at today that people are starting to ask their representatives in Government how they can support him. Answers are not great, but some are starting to realize that the "boss" is not on their side. It has been said before, but his antics are shameful.

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Karma Infinity's avatar

Beneath the headlines, a quieter grief.

This isn’t about left or right—it’s about the slow erosion of trust. When institutions are treated like personal brands, and leadership becomes a spectacle, everyone pays. Not just in dollars, but in dignity.

Some believed. Some warned. Some just wanted it all to be over. But what’s left now is a fragile moment of reflection—on who we are, what we protect, and what we let slide when the noise gets too loud.

No outrage. Just a soft question echoing through it all:

What happens when the story stops serving the people?

Still here, still listening ♾️

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Nancy Elaine Fauser's avatar

Chump is obviously deranged and therefore UNFIT for office. Congress, invoke the 25th Amendment and Make America Safe and Decent Again!

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Michelle's avatar

Great video. It's hard to believe this is all happening in the USA. Thank you for bringing the truth to so many when others are hiding in the corner.

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Laura's avatar

I don’t know why but I have a strange feeling of a renewed hope today that I have literally had to fight every single day to keep since he took office! I feel like America has woken up and the pro democracy majority we have so desperately been trying to reach out to has finally heard us. I also know this is far from over and the more desperate he is, the crazier he gets which is no consolation! So, I guess we’ll see what this feeling really is in the next few days. Hmmm 🤨 weird

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Vince smith's avatar

Thank you

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James Stroud's avatar

Keep doin' what you're doin'.

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Kathy Ingram's avatar

We have a CONVICT FOR PRESIDENT. NEVER BEFORE. BONDI LIES TOO . IM SICK OF THIS GOVERNMENT. DON'T TRUST THEM

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Carol's avatar

This lunatic needs to be incarcerated in either the CECOT IN EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻 OR ANY MENTAL INSTITUTION will do 💥‼️

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Laurie Ross's avatar

Great…just what we need…Elon running a cult, spreading his evil seed everywhere…you’ve got to be pretty low to want to lie down with pure evil!!!

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Visibly Invisible MS's avatar

How can ANYONE be okay with the administration not calling for the IMMEDIATE resignation of RFK Jr.? What he said about autistic children should tell everyone what they need to know about him. We already knew, but the for the slower learners, really?! We all know an autistic kid, and if you don't, open up your circle. His FIRST line, "...they're never gonna pay taxes." Then last line, "...never gonna use the toilet independently..." Ok, I have to leave it there or else I am going to say a whole lot of things here that will probably land me in the gas chamber or El Salvador by the beginning of next week. But JHC America! Wake TFU!

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Cheryl Foster's avatar

We agree! Let's STOP THE CRAZINESS ALREADY

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Tricia Babcock's avatar

I’m a mental health professional and concur with your assessment of his mental state being severely impaired.

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Gunnar Palmgren's avatar

Doesn't a lie turn into true if you repeat it enough?

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Bluesmurf's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣There are certainly those that believe that is the case.... in my book, a lie is a lie no matter how many times it is told and fact is fact no matter how many times a liar tries to say it is not! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Gunnar Palmgren's avatar

I do hope everyone understands I was cynical.

I actually had a discussion today at church. Since I've been a scientist from start and in my very core, it was essential for my Christian beliefs that my confirmation priest studied chemistry before he got the calling. He helped me a lot to understand how you could combine your belief in God with your belief in science.

In science a truth is valid until you've learned more. It's not like you were wrong before. You've just learned more.

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Kathy H's avatar

Sadly, it can be, if never questioned.

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hum of bees's avatar

Mind boggling!! Very informative and my new news source. Just subscribed. 👏👏👏

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Monte Hickmon's avatar

Chump is a demented Psychopath on Adderall who's only qualified for prison or a mental institution, period

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Denise's avatar

Trump is very stupid if he thinks he can pretend that people aren't hurting from his terrible tariffs. He's done. Bye-bye temp worker, that's all the president's job is…..temp worker. America deserves better!

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LeAnn's avatar

He’s such a weirdo! Why would these women basically sell their life away to have a child with this man 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Kathy H's avatar

Money does strange things to a lot of people.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

It's all about the Benjamins!

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Bad Bunny's avatar

"Trump is unraveling" like a cheap rug. It's springtime. Let's wipe our muddy feet on him.

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jf's avatar

Big fan. One suggestion. You say that Trump and Musk are “trying” to rule the country. I suggest that facts show thst they are.

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Arthur Murray Doan's avatar

If China would take over Taiwan it would devastate the USA. WE WOULD LOSE their Investment on the Conductor plan. Plus our purchasing of what we can't make ourselves. Great for China ???

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Mark Lambert's avatar

Donald Trump has only accomplished exponentially speeding up the timeline and certainty that China will overthrow Taiwan. Seems as though Trump should love that idea though as much as he proves daily how much he hates people having freedom and safety in the nations they live in. One thing is a certainty.. China will never allow themselves to be bullied by the likes of someone like Donald Trump… nor should they or anyone else on this planet.

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Helen C Strasko's avatar

It's time for a real psychiatric Dr. to place HIM on a court ordered, legal (72) hour hold now!

Not to be evaluated by anyone from Walter Reed Hospital either! To hear that this military physician gave HIM a physical... 🤔🤔 declaring he was fit???

What planet is he living on??

We citizens have watched this mad man for years mentally deteriorate in front of our own eyes and for years...

Many of HIS followers (My Ass Got Arrested) have begun to realize.. "Holy 💩 HE played us all!!" If you have not,.. stupid is as stupid does! Thanks alot, and we non-treasonist citizens pray you are all sent to San Salvador! You royaly screwed OUR Country!

We can stop not only HIM, but HIS sycophants too.

DEMONSTRATE as if your life depends on it,.. because it does!!

Write to your State Senators and Congress people today!

Fortunately living in NJ, we have the honor of Cory Booker representing us..

On a positive note; two Federal Judges have stipulated (opined) that CHUMP is GUILTY of contempt for ignoring their Court orders!!

(Lock HIM up.. Lock HIM up.. ALREADY!)

Plus put Vance and M. Johnson in prison too for their treasonist acts and for being co- conspiracies too!!)

It's past time to sweep these criminals into a jail cell already to clean out these idiots, and finally get rid of that horrible stench... TREASON!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

He lives in Trumpland with all the other MAGAs. That doctor probably did not write that medical report. Remember back in 2016? That doctor (Bornstein) did not write that medical report either and he has since died with under-reported circumstances (no cause, etc.). He was a gastroenterologist - a specialist in his field - "The shaggy-haired, bespectacled gastroenterologist first came to public prominence in 2015, when he authored a note for the Trump campaign memorably predicting his patient “will be the healthiest individual elected to the presidency," which he did not write...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/14/harold-bornstein-trump-ex-doctor-dies-459293

Now, why would anyone see a specialist if they were the healthiest individual ever elected? And they did report he has diverticulosis, which doesn't make him healthy - and I'll bet Obama never had diverticulosis, or even Clinton or Bush... but I have no proof. We know that Kamala Harris did not have it or any other major medical condition, which that one is. So, that doctor lives in the land where other people write his releases and someone just signs them.

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Mark Lambert's avatar

Beautifully said.

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Linda Morway's avatar

Trump is bullying Mills

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Yes he is and she should file a lawsuit against him that addresses the arbitrariness of the actions taken against her State because of it. In the Supreme court decision in Village of Willowbrook v. Olech, 528 U.S. 562 (2000), The Supreme Court voted 9-0 on this one: "In a per curiam opinion, the Court held that Olech's allegations were sufficient to state a claim for relief under traditional equal protection analysis. "Our cases have recognized successful equal protection claims brought by a 'class of one,' where the plaintiff alleges that she has been intentionally treated differently from others similarly situated and that there is no rational basis for the difference in treatment," stated the unanimous, unsigned opinion. Justice Stephen G. Breyer concurred." https://www.oyez.org/cases/1999/98-1288

Trump is not allowed to arbitrarily go after anyone just because he does not like them. And the Supreme Court does have a way to address him when he ignores them. How Judges Can Hold Trump Admin Accountable For Defying Court Orders

We are all worried about the fact that the “t” ungovernment is just ignoring the judiciary, unless of course they want to use it against us. And the $64K question is how does the judiciary enforce their rulings when the DOJ is just as corrupt as the rest of the ungovernment? Well, this article was encouraging and enlightening and hopefully the courts will take notice and actually do something. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/trump-defy-court-orders-contempt-constitutional-crisis

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Trump gilds the White House in gold, while Republicans face angry town halls."

"Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago—at taxpayers' expense,

President Donald Trump is gilding the White House, using his so-called "gold guy" to add gold touches to the Oval Office on the taxpayer dime, to make the historic building look like his tacky Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump has gilded the furniture, affixed gold ornaments to the Oval Office fireplace, added gold sculptures and picture frames, and reportedly installed a gold Trump crest over the doorway into the White House. He even ordered his and Vice President JD Vance’s portraits to be reprinted with a gold border because he wanted the pictures to “catch the light,” the WSJ reported.

“It’s the Golden Office for the Golden Age,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the WSJ." (Daily Kos)......

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/16/2316765/-Trump-is-turning-the-White-House-into-Mar-a-Lago-at-taxpayers-expense

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laurie Jurewicz's avatar

Elon is INSANE!!

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Karen Bojarski's avatar

We can only hoe he implodes!

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Ann Ahumada's avatar

When coal returns so will poisoned water and cancer. Is that what people want? Freaking idiots.

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Paul Leahy's avatar

Well, at least the magas won’t get heartworm!😊

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Sandra Trimble's avatar

True, they have no heart!

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Gloriinher40s's avatar

Again, nobody's talking about Signalgate anymore

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JimNewt's avatar

You gotta be careful that as well they’re friends with Russia you don’t wanna make

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Cindy Dore's avatar

I hope it all crashes down SOON!

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Zeke1967's avatar

The Trump cast of pinheads fubaring the nation appears to have the same qualities of a cluster f*** where educated but grossly incompetent individuals are whooping it up while imbibing tequila and quaaludes

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Well, this is an interesting problem.

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Jay  Kinard's avatar

I “liked” this article, but would question whether djt is as cornered as it seems. The judge gave him two weeks to prove compliance. That may be normal for the court but gives him way too much time to accomplish more damage to the system.

Remember he is all about delay, delay, delay….

I would think that the Secretary of State is vulnerable also, and perhaps a good target for a contempt of court charge.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"$5,000: That’s how much more families will pay under Trump’s new tariffs."

“I couldn’t care less.”

That’s how Trump responded.

Imagine telling a mom working two jobs, that her grocery bill will go up again. Telling a veteran that the benefits they earned are being slashed. Telling a retiree their Social Security check might not stretch far enough this month.

Now imagine the president looking them in the eye and saying: “I couldn’t care less.”

Trump and MAGA Republicans aren’t hiding their agenda. They’re fully committed to dismantling the programs and protections working families rely on.

They’re counting on people giving up. We refuse.

That’s why we’re investing everything we’ve got in local Democrats fighting to hold the line — and take our country back one community at a time.

But we can’t do it alone."

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MsSwayzeJr's avatar

He’s not just torturing them Ben you fing know he’s having them murdered

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Vicki L Rogers's avatar

Go after this administration on RICO charges!

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brad ziegel's avatar

I still want my job putting in "little screws."

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JoMarieTerry's avatar

Waiting for good news in the obituaries.

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Margaret Wallace's avatar

Thanks for the update on all

the things that are going wrong this week. Most of this made my week so much better!

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Kathleen Polly's avatar

Make American great again………deport bloated orange cheese ball!

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SueLewis's avatar

We need our own coup!

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Michelle G's avatar

Their undoing cannot come soon enough.

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Mary Keith's avatar

Maga will buy ANYTHING trumpish. They would literally buy his💩

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

These aren’t “the guys who want to run the country;” they are the guys who ARE running the country. Into the ground, I might add.

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Madam Geoffrin's avatar

How ironic that the Trump regime wants to stop boys from going into girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms when their Orange Leader is known to have barged into the Miss Universe dressing room to gander!! Every accusation is a confession.

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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

So then Trump is the only man allowed in women's dressing rooms? If they really want to protect women help them from bleeding out during a miscarriage. The - it's against my rights to have to wear a mask but let me reach in and put my grubby hands in your uterus, cause you have no rights bigade makes me ill!

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Amy's avatar

Pam Bondi's heart is truly ugly!

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Deborah Newman's avatar

Project 2025 - Trump, Vance, Musk, Vought, Wright, Sacks, Miller, Hegseth, Bessett, Paul, Navarro, Thiel, Yarvin, etc. etc. etc. all know each other for years even decades in one form or another - from Silicon Valley, jobs, politics, The Heritage Foundation, you name it. It's like a tremendous web and complicated but they've come together to achieve P2025. Most have been strategically placed in the Trump regime and others like Thiel and Yarvin are major forces behind the scenes pulling the strings. P2025 was well thought out, thus the 180+ executive orders ready to go (I lost count). Sadly it's all over the internet for the world to see. They aren't hiding. There’s even a timeline of what they’ve accomplished (which is a lot) and what’s left to do (not much). Democrats and most people paid no real attention to it. So here we are.

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Kimerer LaMothe's avatar

Thank you. Every day.

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Meidas_hj's avatar

Because he is completely deranged

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James Barisitz's avatar

Sundowning Stinky is losing control.

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Darrell T's avatar

Ben you crack me up. Tellin like it is. Keep up telling truth to power.

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Meidas_hj's avatar

JFC he has completely lost it. Get him OUT

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Kyle Brock's avatar

Republicans did this. They can clean up this time.

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Maryann W's avatar

I hope the 'Golden Showers' were worth it.

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Julie Strasenburgh Waterman's avatar

Good! Hopefully the House of Representative republicans who drank Trump’s koolaide will awaken from their trance and start protecting America and stop sitting idly by as this beautiful country, that 4 months ago had the strongest economy in the world, Burn To the ground.

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Jennifer's avatar

Interesting they use coal workers as that industry will be automated.

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Get real with Terri's avatar

brilliant my fav substack

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Lulu Fraser's avatar

The pressure needs to be peaceful protest. We need 11+ million peaceful people showing up regularly: protests, rallies, takedowns, on sidewalks outside senior living centers, overpasses. Meidas: you are good at reminding us about the need to grow your audience. Please help us grow the number of people who must show up en masse. These are the numbers we need. “Help us meet our goal.”

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Linda Beaver's avatar

Trump is decompensating by the hour. Noticeably and substantially decompensating, that is. 😬

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SueLewis's avatar

Why can't we have the U.S. Marshall's or the FBI go in and arrest them all!!!

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Norm Harold's avatar

Both under the control of the Dept. of Justice and Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi. Head of FBI is Kasha Patel.

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SueLewis's avatar

But it looks like she may be going to jail for contempt. There's got to be some good guys in there, pretending...

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Debra Slater's avatar

Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel

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Jayne E Buteau's avatar

Big talk when they don’t do a damn thing about rapist and murders of women

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lisa jones's avatar

He may be using coal miner pictures, because he's targeting what remains of his followers. I live in rural Ohio & everyone here are still strong supporters of the Orange Regime & they will relate to coal miners.

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SueLewis's avatar

I live in Southern Illinois, big coal mine area. Big trump area too. I'm one blue dot in the red.

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lisa jones's avatar

Hang in there! You are not alone. I stay home as much as possible, keep all conversations short & try to speak using as few words as I can.

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Trainman's avatar

Only their hairdressers know for sure. This is scary stuff.

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Gary Davidson's avatar

Fake news

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Marci's avatar

He is sick

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Shelly Barnes's avatar

This shit just keeps getting more and More Bizarre!!! When are we going to get them OUT OUT OUT OF HERE!

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Tracy ooa's avatar

Oh give it a rest.BS

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HorseMarine's avatar

STFU🤡

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Cathleen  Faraj's avatar

Wow !

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Rudy Kolb's avatar

But hey let’s talk about 2024. Thank God for Meidas touch.

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Vicki Burkleo's avatar

The thing that leaps out to me is that he’s expecting an apocalypse! Interesting….given he has all the world’s data.

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Marge's avatar

🤣

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Marge's avatar

And who believes what that rag writes?

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Bittersnicks's avatar

Geeeeeeezuuusss!

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Nicole larson's avatar

So… if we like Elon.. we have to agree with all he does? I then assume you completely agree with all in your side. Got it

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Jonathan Lathrop's avatar

He posted all this outrageous stuff so you wouldn't be talking about the House vote to cut Medicaid last night at 1:00 AM

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April Barrett's avatar

In Texas building his own compound and building his own electric grid

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Katbg57's avatar

Re: tRump’s crazy nighttime posting. As a nurse, I worked in nursing homes. I dealt with many people with dementia, who would be sundowning (which means when the sun goes down they get energized and confused, often ranting and raving) JUST LIKE tRump does when he posts crazy rambling posts all night and early morning! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🖐️🖐️!!🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪!!🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸👏👏

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Alastair MacMillan's avatar

Keep up the great work Ben.

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JUDI MASTROIANNI's avatar

Oh Karma how patiently we wait for your arrival!

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Ted's avatar

Dieing their hair like Trump... what a punch of Ass kissing idiots!!!!!

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Patricia Cardona's avatar

This country will not be able to compete in the global workforce with trumpy thinking.

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Wild Bill's avatar

The Republican Party of Vladimir Putin is really creepy!!!

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Karla Lewis's avatar

WE HAVE AN INCOMPETENT CRAZY RACIST RUNNING OUR COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND!!!

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Linda murray's avatar

Stop doing this “they”. thing. Like “we “ are the saviors !!!! This what I have complained about my Democratic party for decades.

Due you see this ??

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Margaret Nolan's avatar

Elons efforts to impregnate as many women as possible reminds me of the old movie “The Boys from Brazil”, in which they are trying to restart Hitlers third reich by using Hitlers dna to sire another generation of Hitlers…. Freaky!

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Joan Tumm's avatar

Musk is following same evil mentality. Nazi authorities created the Lebensborn program to increase Germany’s population. Pregnant German women deemed “racially valuable” were encouraged to give birth to their children at Lebensborn homes. During WW II, the program became complicit in the kidnapping of foreign children with physical features considered “Aryan” by the Nazis.

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Deedles's avatar

Wellness check on isle 47.

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Evangelina Fuentes's avatar

Wtf 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Jeannie Litz's avatar

oh YES…he stinks from the toes UP ! nary a single solitary positive thing to say about him.

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Big Blue's avatar

The only way to make America great again to is to send Trump and Co. to Venezuela! Let's take up a collection!!!!!

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Jewel Williams's avatar

He is only one at war with these countries he named and he's at war with us in the United States. This fool is absolutely crazy.

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Cornelia Schomburg Partain's avatar

I only can hope

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

Bondi you are done!! Racist, fascist because you say so???😂😂😂😂

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Mark Lambert's avatar

One things for certain. It will take many decades to fix and heal the damage that Trump and the Republicans have already done here and around the world. We need a stronger and younger leadership within the democratic party who’s more adept to the fight who will actually deliver big for the American people and the protection of our democracy moving forward.

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Mark Lambert's avatar

I guess Trumps administration is working on all having the same hair color as Trump so they can better portray their Nazi race and intentions.

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Mark Lambert's avatar

Common. We all have to know by now that ivermectin must be heavily invested in by Trump. It’s just one more grift. Just don’t take it thinking it will actually save your life.

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Crone1's avatar

Yikes! Legions Rachel does it conjure demonic visions for anyone else????

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Jim's avatar

Trump IS the Anti-Christ

MAGA = Making America Go Authoritarian

MAGA is this country’s Nazi party

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch "Wow." 90 year old holocaust survivor speaks out at town hall, on YouTube. (Luke Beasley)......

https://youtube.com/shorts/vN1yfc1IwUU?si=y4FjEDKnAR_Z6nvD

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "I CAN'T BELIEVE RFK Jr Said This Out Loud", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)......

https://youtu.be/J9HV9nG06vw?si=EwdViDRhc58zuFzV

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Mark Cuban predicts the future in SEPTEMBER 2024", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)......

https://youtube.com/shorts/NhzrUG9X3io?si=jzeSA9dXws6doZAn

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Brian Tyler Cohen CLASHES with Tomi Lahren in FIERY debate"? on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)......

https://youtu.be/8N5gml212Ys?si=beT2-OlFD-yk1uuL

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Pantsuit Politics Meets MeidasTouch: Real Talk From Red State America."

"We joined forces with the brilliant Kentuckians behind Pantsuit Politics to cut through the noise, uplift real values, and call out Trump’s cruelty and cowardice." (Ben Meiselas, Beth Silvers, Sarah Stewart Holland, and Pantsuit Politics,

Apr 18, 2025).......

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/pantsuit-politics-meets-meidastouch?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3078900&post_id=161553753&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Trump is a relentless bully, but he can be stopped by standing up to him, and not caving in to him. There is strength in numbers.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"50 protests.

50 states.

1 movement."

"Join us in the fight to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach."

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b7f329b1-2c7c-4ac0-b4fb-20cf4e46e6e3

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Judge Quickly SHOOTS DOWN Trump's Disgusting Plot", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)......

https://youtu.be/7k5vBWn2SPw?si=iq3XFrfTz_XJxmpH

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "WOW! TOP Florida GOP Donors TURN AGAINST Trump", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......

https://youtu.be/djYBZGPhbwo?si=ZTS7oIMZwFcAjlCM

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Protestor at Marjorie Taylor Greene Event tased and forcibly removed", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen).......

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vpc7ZeWnUd4?si=-xk-6LoWvxpGgSEP

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump throws ALL his DOJ Lawyers UNDER THE BUS, in Oval Office", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......

https://youtu.be/blWVyGeQSWE?si=g8UfXdCTC-tJgAIt

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Utterly reprehensible': Ex-prosecutor puts Pam Bondi on notice, for 'refusing' judge order."

"The Justice Department and Attorney General Pam Bondi are “leading the charge” to paint Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “bad guy,” according to a new analysis from Joyce Vance.

Abrego Garcia was mistakenly sent to a prison used to house terrorists and gang members in El Salvador.

Vance laid out what we do know about the case: “Abrego Garcia came to this country illegally in 2011, at the age of 16. Since then, he has married, has a child, and is a father to his wife’s two previous children as well.”

The 29-year-old’s deportation was stopped by an immigration judge’s order.

However, Vance believes the backstory “doesn’t matter. What does matter is that Abrego Garcia, criminal or saint, was denied his due process rights by the government, and in this country, people are entitled to those rights.”

“Under our Constitution, people, whether criminals or not, whether citizens or not, are entitled to notice before action is taken against them and to a hearing in front of a judge to sort out any issues,” the former Prosecutor penned." (Raw Story)......

https://www.rawstory.com/deportation-utterly-reprehensible/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"'I do take offense!' Judge blasts Trump DOJ lawyer, while limiting DOGE on Social Security."

"A federal judge imposed new restrictions on the so-called Department of Government Efficiency's access to sensitive Social Security data.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction late Thursday, that sided with a consortium of labor unions and retirees who alleged that DOGE's actions violate privacy laws and pose a massive security risk, although the ruling does allow billionaire Elon Musk's team to access data that has been redacted or stripped of personal identification if they have undergone background checks, reported the Associated Press." (Raw Story)......

https://www.rawstory.com/doge-social-security-2671798630/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Why Trump voters will love him even more if he faces public protest over Social Security."

"In a recent edition, I wrote about how most people most of the time choose to believe in the existence of certain eternal rules that powerful figures must obey, and how they continue to believe in these rules, even as powerful figures break them over and over again.

As if proving my point, a reader replied with a commonly held opinion that holds that Donald Trump’s attacks on Social Security are going to be a bridge too far for his own supporters. The cracks are showing, this reader said. If even a fraction of magaland breaks away, it’s over." (Raw Story)......

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-voters-social-security/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Newsom mocks Trumps: "He discovered the word groceries", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)......

https://youtube.com/shorts/lLHcmX1OBTs?si=BoXCsfn4Jrq2wJcV

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Kathy Ingram's avatar

Crazy people. You have a baby with your husband not with an idiot. I hate Trump and MUSK. Billionaires are stupid PAY YOUR OWN TAXES. YOU ARE STUPID WITH TRUMP

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

He was born insane. Void of the ability to think or feel like a normal human being

He is an insecure toxic narcisist.

I will ha e a big party when he is put in jail. Although an MI would save tax payers hard earn money!

( BTW I think Melania would LOVE TO COME TO MY PARTY. Sorry, dahling. You are not welcome. Your silence is defeaning!)

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Melania is just as bad as Trump! They deserve each other!

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

Absolutely. Maybe even worse.

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Deborah Boone's avatar

Every day I see more and more of the lies, crazed behaviors and call my elected reps to insist they work together to stop this insanity before more are disappeared, costs spiral out of control and more. It is sickening the level of hate and bigotry! Illegal activities and more. Trump Vance and entire Cabinet should be jailed and passports revoked

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Jackie Johnson's avatar

We can’t go back !

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Kathi's avatar

Ew

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Margheritta J Tessitore's avatar

The reason that President Biden didn't beat his own drum was because he had modesty and he felt that what he was doing was part of his job and he didn't need to have any special attention and he didn't expect people to worship him that is a trump problem and if you want to make America great again tell him to leave the country and let somebody who actually knows what they're doing take over because all he's doing is destroying the great economy that President Biden had put in place and the stock market is down the highest during President Biden unemployment was down to an all-time low and now we have Trump unemployment is back up the stock market is way down and you tell me is a mess oh and let's not forget the fact that all of our allies are now looking at us like we're weird and cannot be trusted and this is all brought to you by Donald Trump what a guy I don't know why you didn't mean I think they were all crazy I would never voted for him in a million years I didn't vote for him the first two times

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Jill Andrea Rivkin's avatar

Musk and DOGE will ALWAYS be in the dark shadows of the T Regime.

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Jill Andrea Rivkin's avatar

Why don’t people believe the numbers and facts. Oh yeah, T voters are too embarrassed.

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Kathy H's avatar

Good update. I always get detail here that I don't elsewhere, along with a firm grasp on the big picture. I like what Ben said about people being able to their own reality checks. I just heard Joy Reid say, use the Internet while we still have it, people. We can all do this. She said it only took maybe 5 minutes to find big holes a mainstream narrative, & what she did find was wild! Like very different gangs than the administration was even claiming, a lot of big inconsistencies. Heather Cox Richardson said recently, too, what she & others are doing to document & record history as it's happening is important, not only as a record, but a point of reference as some are trying so hard to create an alternate reality. We will hold our reality. Meidas Mighty! 💪

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Pot, meet kettle: Rubio slams free speech crackdowns—while leading his own."

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio clutched his pearls about other countries quashing free speech during a Wednesday interview—even as he dutifully follows President Donald Trump’s directives to revoke the visas of legal U.S. residents for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Rubio sat down with Michael Benz, a former Trump State Department official and reported proponent of the racist “Great Replacement Theory,” to discuss why he shuttered an office designed to counter foreign disinformation and brag about the Trump regime’s faux free speech advocacy.

The fawning interview gave Rubio a chance to claim it’s other countries that are trampling on people’s rights.

“And, you know, but we have instances now in Western countries where people are being arrested. You've seen this. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about,” Rubio said. “People are out there, they put a post and the cop comes knocking on their door. You're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening.” (Daily Kos)......

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/17/2316976/-Pot-meet-kettle-Rubio-slams-free-speech-crackdowns-while-leading-his-own

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Fed chair won’t take orders from Trump—and that’s got Trump fuming."

"President Donald Trump erupted at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—again—after he correctly warned that Trump’s chaotic tariffs would fuel inflation and drag down the economy.

Speaking Wednesday at the Economic Club of Chicago, Powell said that the administration’s trade war is “highly likely” to drive up prices, with the potential for more lasting damage. Markets tanked in real-time as he spoke.

“Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. The inflationary effects could also be more persistent. The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated. The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth,” Powell said." (Daily Kos)......

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/17/2316983/-Fed-chair-won-t-take-orders-from-Trump-and-that-s-got-Trump-fuming

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump admin BUSTED using FAKE evidence to deport U.S. resident", on YouTube. (Mary Trump)......

https://youtu.be/du2dz80iBDU?si=KXdskrvm4-WItjF1

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it's projected to be like 59% higher as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs in some places. Take a look at housing right now, mortgage rates crossing what 7% could even potentially hit 8% soon. And of course, Most bankers right now and most economists believe we're either already in a recession, we're heading for a recession.