The situation in Ukraine is deeply troubling. It's astonishing to see some politicians echoing Putin’s justifications as Ukrainians fight valiantly for their lives and sovereignty. How can anyone witness this and not recognize the necessity of supporting Ukraine, both for moral reasons and our own national security? Putin's ambitions likely won’t stop with Ukraine; it's crucial that we act decisively to support Ukraine now.
Regarding the spectacle surrounding Trump, it’s exasperating to watch him disseminate falsehoods outside the courthouse daily. While it's understood that the judge cannot completely silence him, it would be beneficial if there were a way to mitigate the spread of his baseless claims about Biden using the judiciary for political gain.
Trump’s fundraising tactics are incredibly cynical. His emails claim he's facing “life in prison,” playing up his role as a victim while he's actually the one being tried. It’s somewhat relieving to hear that his fundraising efforts may be diminishing, yet the impact remains significant: many people have been persuaded by his narrative, which undermines trust in our judicial system.
I share your feelings of frustration and sleeplessness over these issues—it’s 4:30am, proving how much these concerns are weighing on me.
However, it appears a vote on Ukraine may be coming, as Ukranian Evangelicals have been lobbying for the aid now. Fingers crossed. As to TFG: the hallway rants are admissible in the trial as possible admissions- the same thing happened to Giuliani. The fund raising brings to mind the fatigue of the small donors, thus requiring the billionaires’ meetings. Stay tuned.
I am not so much mad as sick & tired. This vile man has turned social behavior upsidedown. The dark side of man is flourishing - lying, name calling, bullying, swearing - & so many of the rest so used to it by now, they pass it off as, well, that's trump. Covering it all, his every action, is a frenzied media-pictures unlimited. He's entering Harlem, he's at a chicken selling place, he's sleeping, he's dancing (?),his line up with busty hooker types, standing with his mostly forgotten son whose daddy can't go to his graduation . And always wanting money donations, sided now by Lara. I've an idea for him. Just as Nazis did, he could sell trump armbands. They would sell like hot cakes. Old Soviet Marge could wear one on each muscled arm. Even Johnson fears her. And as with trump, the media surrounds her, her pro Russian sentiments broadcast. If they just wouldn't show up at these children parties, if somebody would just yell Shut Up! But no. The show must go on.
On money raising: the idea that the trump campaign wants to charge down ballot candidates for using his pictures gives the Dems a golden opportunity. At the end of any Dem ad using his visage, there could be a banner saying "we are not paying Donald Trump for use of these images."
The openly supportive of Putin , members of Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gaetz and other traitors to the USA and our allies, should be discharged from Congress.
Why should anyone have to think of these outright liars as ‘leaders’ , they are leaders who have infiltrated the halls of Congress .
The outright lies they tell on a regular basis, should be reason enough to disqualify them from representing the people, because they don’t.
The people of this country overwhelmingly want to assist Ukraine.
The months and months of waiting while they twist the truth into their own trash to justify their brutal lying actions for King Trump the criminal and Putin are filthy.
These people are suffering and dying in Ukraine because Congress is prevented from doing its job by these corrupt lunatics.
As far as Donald Trump being free to lie wherever he is , it’s remarkably clear that he is full of garbage and his brain is shot . Be that as it may he is still tremendously destructive.
He needs to take his impromptu press conferences to jail where he belongs .
As usual, Steven Beschloss has delivered a riveting message this morning about "reasons to be mad." His reasoning is justified and shared by many. Americans and others just plain lack the basic understanding that all this evil is linked to one man - Vlladimir Putin.
Advanced education in the United States is not reaching a large portion of our society - resulting in a lack of deductive reasoning and unoccupied minds that are more susceptible to coercive control techniques. For Americans, this is a relatively new and unique modern phenomenon that has swept across our nation and hypnotized Trumpers.
Time magazine recently published an article on how "red states" have a reportedly lower level of education than blue states. This article stated that about 20% of Texans do not even have a high school diploma. There is a direct line between a lack of or no education and individuals who are vulnerable to coercive mind manipulation.
Putin spent his spy years in East Germany, learned Hitler's mind control techniques, and returned to Russia to become their next ruthless dictator. We now find the same words and actions practiced by Donald Trump - an ignorant American who went to Russia and was caught in a typical KGB/FSB trap using flattery, women, and money. (kompromise). Trump is nothing more than a puppet whose strings are all controlled by Putin.
Brainwashing is defined in Wikipedia as "telling lies over and over until they are perceived as the truth." Several recent polls tell us that over 50% of the Republicans still believe Trump's "big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump filed 60 law suits to attempt to prove this lie, but lost ALL 60 court cases - no evidence. If the lies contain hatred - which was used by Hitler against Jews and by Trump daily against anyone who is not a Trumper, it releases a chemical in the human brain to enact violence - like what we saw on Jan. 6th. Take a minute and look at the glazed faces of those individuals who were breaking Capitol windows, defecating on the Capitol floor, or stealing documents and historical artifacts. They believed that they were "saving democracy" where in reality they were destroying our form of government. Hundreds of these Trumpers are now in prison for their illegal actions. Trump lives in a delusional world and those loyal to him do as well. Trump's criminal trial - the first against a previous U.S. President - is unparalleled in our history. He lacks the deductive reasoning to understand the graveness and solemnity of this historical event and has even fallen asleep while sitting at the defendant's table. And, he expects his loyal followers, MAGA, and Republican members of Congress to agree with his faulty assessment and lies. He is NOT a victim, but a phantasmagorical man who appears not capable of understanding truth or that he is the cause of the criminal trial.
I am an American who spent 12 years studying Russia and Russians, then another 20 years living in Russian-speaking countries. My children attended Moscow Public Schools, and I became bi-cultural in the process. There are thousands upon thousands of Russians living in the United States, but there are few of us who actually moved and lived in Russia. I experienced Russian leadership and government, and behaved, looked-like, and understood a country which actually operates the opposite of the United States. In the early 1990's, The Moscow Business Guide wrote a warning to all foreigners who suddenly wanted to do business in Russia. This pamphlet says " The most fundamental concepts that have guided your judgement for a lifetime are not even known, much less understood here." Russians have endured centuries of ruthless leadership which has formed a nation of people with an unfathomable depth of humanity. The United States is an unleashed babe in the woods of global societies, originally formed with Christian beliefs which have -for many Americans - been abandoned OR metamorphosed into different renditions of self-indulgence.
I live in a small mountainous town in northern Arizona. We have a group of Nazi's who drive around with swastika stickers on their pickup bumpers and/or Trump flags gleefully flying for all to see. They meet weekly on Main Street in an old building and think that Trump is the best President our country has ever elected. Yes Steven, this makes me mad. This little town has 36 churches and they are all well-attended. But once these good-hearted Christians leave church, the light switch goes off - not for all of them, but for many.
On January 6th, it was ONLY after Trump went on TV and told the insurrectionists that "he loved them" but they needed to go home, that they packed up their stolen items and their weapons and left. Plain and simple - their minds and actions are controlled by Trump and they are no longer capable of independent thought. Donald Trump's many-sided destructiveness reaches far and wide across our nation. He is dangerously unfit to be our President, yet almost half our country believes his lies and are actually oppressed or "reigned over" by Trump's coercive mind-control techniques. Brainwashing works - has been used in many other countries and by many dictators - but even the most educated among us seem to deny it's existence.
I attended a book-signing event at a Barnes and Noble in Tucson, AZ. A middle-aged woman came up to me and said "I think Putin is a great and smart leader." My mouth opened but no words came out. These were the exact same words spoken by Trump the previous week and right after Russia invaded Ukraine. This, my friends, is "brainwashing" and it is found in every corner of our country.
Yes, there are many reasons to be angry and even mad about the menacing, savage, threatening, and even vicious state of affairs in the United States at this time in our history. Our Speaker of the House is daily and deliberately intimidated and bullied by Greene and other House members in order to bow down to Trump instead of "doing the right thing." The "right thing" being sending weaponry, equipment, and support to Ukraine so they can DEFEND their country and their loved ones. Trump himself has made a mockery of our justice system. And the whole world is watching the United States crumble under the weight of one man who was either caught with his pants down in Russia or has succumbed to bribery.
Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have both stated that the Trump Organization has received $100M from Russian banks (www.businessinsider.com). Russian banks DO NOT OPERATE as American banks. They are managed and controlled by Russian Intelligence (KGB/FSB). They also gave $9.8M to Marie LePen, who is the French opposition leader in an attempt to overthrow the French government.
Trumpers in the U.S. are ignorant and mindless and not capable of understanding that Trump is controlled by Putin. The man they think they are obeying and submitting to is NOT Trump but Putin - who told the whole world in 1997 (in a book called The Foundations of Geopolitics) that his goal as the President of Russia is to destroy the United States.
According to Illarionov, a former economic advisor to Putin who now lives in the United States, "Putin is using Ukraine as a testing ground for his expansion throughout Europe and many former USSR countries." He wishes to restore the glory days of Russia's dominance - which in reality means a new world war. Putin/Russia, who is friends with Iran, provided weapons to HAMAS to start the Israel-Hamas war - he knew the U.S. would support Israel as he knew the U.S. would support Ukraine. This is a huge financial drain for a country who is operating with a national debt in excess of $34 trillion dollars as of this morning (April 19th). These wars are just another way for Putin to financially incapacitate and cause pain to the United States.
Illarionov also stated (From Democracy to Democrazy, p. 137) "If Putin is not stopped, he will continue on. It will mean thousands more will die. He is already responsible for many deaths . . .calculated it may be 500,000 or 600,000 deaths in Russia and outside of Russia . . . How long should we (the U.S. and the world) tolerate the endless spiral of deaths produced by one person? . . . Ukraine is his testing ground, and so far the West has not done enough to prevent his daily onslaught and bombing of hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, and other civilian properties. The West may not want to be at war with Russia, but they also may have NO CHOICE."
I have been shouting since 1993 that the Cold War did not end. Most Americans naively still believe that because President Bush said the Cold War ended - that it did - no questions asked, even though the Russian bear was signing an agreement with a brick behind his back and fingers crossed.
I see only a few solutions to reverse our predicament - improved formal education, massive and consistent social marketing, and long-term incarceration of Trump. The worst possible scenario is another world war, yet it is rapidly barreling down upon us and may be our one and only solution.
The landscape of American democracy is clouded with Russia's large shadow and Putin's control over Donald Trump. I wrote From Democracy to Democrazy for one purpose - to warn Americans of Putin's influence and his attempt to reshape the trajectory of American politics and American lives- which we see happening now. Republicans are blind to the truth. Trumpers are violently attempting to control our government with their loyalty to a man who is not their President but a hallucinatory cult-leader, and our democracy hangs in the balance. Yes Steven, I am MAD too. I feel as though no one is listening to the truth - and only the light of the truth can combat Putin's and Trump's web of lies.
many of Trump’s supporters know he’s lying. But they don’t care about his lies because they give them permission to act out—and I’ll say this about that—if acting out is more important to someone
than acknowledging truth, chances are they believe they’ve got nothing to lose and that makes them even more dangerous than Trump. So the goal should be to stop allowing Trump to inflame them
on a daily basis.
Every day Trump further harms this country and
all who live here with his poisonous rhetoric. It’s
time to lock him up & allow him no visitors with the exception of his attorney. I understand, sort of, why judges are wary of throwing Trump in jail. But look at the harm he’s doing! It’s pretty clear he doesn’t intend to follow the judge’s rules, so it’s time to try something different. Take his electronic toys away from him and force him to take a “time-out.” Treat him like the incorrigible mental child he is and if his supporters use that as an excuse to do harm to innocent people, lock them up too. It’s counterproductive to keep giving a child ultimatums and not follow through on them.
As for the pro-Putin faction in the Republican caucus, it should be obvious these are people who,
much like Trump, (and never forget he is their role-model) will do anything for money & power. They
are disruptive and chaotic.They act like hyperactive
children, in other words—just like Trump. Their bombastic manner is childish. They say patently stupid things and flout the rules.
So what’s driving them to be so outrageous? I
suspect they’re being rewarded by a foreign
enemy head of state, especially when they interfere with what the majority in Congress wants to do for Ukraine. It’s past time to call their bluff. The continual chaos and mixed messages frightens voters. It’s time for group leadership—and I don’t mean Speaker Johnson—to step up. Johnson is between a rock and a hard place.Pressuring him is useless.
Ideally, a group from both parties with leadership skills should corner these bombastic flame-throwers, and sternly explain to them they are on thin ice, that their pro-Putin rhetoric is counter to our national security interests. They should be reminded that it’s still illegal to accept foreign money campaign donations, imply an investigation because voters need to know whether they are loyal to America or to a foreign enemy head of state.
I think the justice department needs to do some serious serious introspection. Why has it taken so many decades to even bring Trump close to a courtroom for his crimes????
I will skip Ukraine because I, too, am angry. I do not understand the system that lets a handful of ignorant reps dictate the rules.
About the Trump saga, I have been asking the question since Jan 6: WHY is not there anyone in higher authority (aka DOJ) stopping him from repeating lies and attacking the rule of law, in public..in front of cameras and in front of the world? Gags do not work with him - he is a 5yr old child lacking maturity. He makes the American legal system a total joke, there is almost a comical side to it. Just when we think he is finally getting his day in court and things are moving the right direction..he walks out of the strict court setting and everything falls apart, he begins dismantling all that happened inside the court by reminding his supporters the judicial system and all Americans are against him and that HE is the victim. I have a solution Monsieur Garland, LOCK HIM UP! Preferably with no phone.
We are pissed at the same things Steven..J.Last’s piece in the Bulwark calls what Johnson did “leadership”..People will be killed fighting a war, I get that..But Johnson’s hands are bloodied by his incompetence and stupidity..Since that bill came over from the Senate, if 1000 people were killed in Ukraine, 1/2 would be alive today if he hadn’t dicked around following Putin.. I don’t believe for a second that Johnson had a CTJ moment..This was a delay Putin wanted to degrade Ukrainian forces & morale and Trump and Johnson gave it to him..
Boo hoo hoo. What an overgrown baby he is . He is an imposter. On the edge of a tantrum at every turn . And his followers think he has some kind of authority. Bull.
The situation in Ukraine is deeply troubling. It's astonishing to see some politicians echoing Putin’s justifications as Ukrainians fight valiantly for their lives and sovereignty. How can anyone witness this and not recognize the necessity of supporting Ukraine, both for moral reasons and our own national security? Putin's ambitions likely won’t stop with Ukraine; it's crucial that we act decisively to support Ukraine now.
Regarding the spectacle surrounding Trump, it’s exasperating to watch him disseminate falsehoods outside the courthouse daily. While it's understood that the judge cannot completely silence him, it would be beneficial if there were a way to mitigate the spread of his baseless claims about Biden using the judiciary for political gain.
Trump’s fundraising tactics are incredibly cynical. His emails claim he's facing “life in prison,” playing up his role as a victim while he's actually the one being tried. It’s somewhat relieving to hear that his fundraising efforts may be diminishing, yet the impact remains significant: many people have been persuaded by his narrative, which undermines trust in our judicial system.
I share your feelings of frustration and sleeplessness over these issues—it’s 4:30am, proving how much these concerns are weighing on me.
Thank you Steven:
The list you gave maddens me as well.
However, it appears a vote on Ukraine may be coming, as Ukranian Evangelicals have been lobbying for the aid now. Fingers crossed. As to TFG: the hallway rants are admissible in the trial as possible admissions- the same thing happened to Giuliani. The fund raising brings to mind the fatigue of the small donors, thus requiring the billionaires’ meetings. Stay tuned.
I am not so much mad as sick & tired. This vile man has turned social behavior upsidedown. The dark side of man is flourishing - lying, name calling, bullying, swearing - & so many of the rest so used to it by now, they pass it off as, well, that's trump. Covering it all, his every action, is a frenzied media-pictures unlimited. He's entering Harlem, he's at a chicken selling place, he's sleeping, he's dancing (?),his line up with busty hooker types, standing with his mostly forgotten son whose daddy can't go to his graduation . And always wanting money donations, sided now by Lara. I've an idea for him. Just as Nazis did, he could sell trump armbands. They would sell like hot cakes. Old Soviet Marge could wear one on each muscled arm. Even Johnson fears her. And as with trump, the media surrounds her, her pro Russian sentiments broadcast. If they just wouldn't show up at these children parties, if somebody would just yell Shut Up! But no. The show must go on.
I'm fed up !!
On money raising: the idea that the trump campaign wants to charge down ballot candidates for using his pictures gives the Dems a golden opportunity. At the end of any Dem ad using his visage, there could be a banner saying "we are not paying Donald Trump for use of these images."
The openly supportive of Putin , members of Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gaetz and other traitors to the USA and our allies, should be discharged from Congress.
Why should anyone have to think of these outright liars as ‘leaders’ , they are leaders who have infiltrated the halls of Congress .
The outright lies they tell on a regular basis, should be reason enough to disqualify them from representing the people, because they don’t.
The people of this country overwhelmingly want to assist Ukraine.
The months and months of waiting while they twist the truth into their own trash to justify their brutal lying actions for King Trump the criminal and Putin are filthy.
These people are suffering and dying in Ukraine because Congress is prevented from doing its job by these corrupt lunatics.
As far as Donald Trump being free to lie wherever he is , it’s remarkably clear that he is full of garbage and his brain is shot . Be that as it may he is still tremendously destructive.
He needs to take his impromptu press conferences to jail where he belongs .
Thanks for your writing, Steven. I could not agree more to every comment you made. This is not the America I grew up to love and cherish.
As usual, Steven Beschloss has delivered a riveting message this morning about "reasons to be mad." His reasoning is justified and shared by many. Americans and others just plain lack the basic understanding that all this evil is linked to one man - Vlladimir Putin.
Advanced education in the United States is not reaching a large portion of our society - resulting in a lack of deductive reasoning and unoccupied minds that are more susceptible to coercive control techniques. For Americans, this is a relatively new and unique modern phenomenon that has swept across our nation and hypnotized Trumpers.
Time magazine recently published an article on how "red states" have a reportedly lower level of education than blue states. This article stated that about 20% of Texans do not even have a high school diploma. There is a direct line between a lack of or no education and individuals who are vulnerable to coercive mind manipulation.
Putin spent his spy years in East Germany, learned Hitler's mind control techniques, and returned to Russia to become their next ruthless dictator. We now find the same words and actions practiced by Donald Trump - an ignorant American who went to Russia and was caught in a typical KGB/FSB trap using flattery, women, and money. (kompromise). Trump is nothing more than a puppet whose strings are all controlled by Putin.
Brainwashing is defined in Wikipedia as "telling lies over and over until they are perceived as the truth." Several recent polls tell us that over 50% of the Republicans still believe Trump's "big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump filed 60 law suits to attempt to prove this lie, but lost ALL 60 court cases - no evidence. If the lies contain hatred - which was used by Hitler against Jews and by Trump daily against anyone who is not a Trumper, it releases a chemical in the human brain to enact violence - like what we saw on Jan. 6th. Take a minute and look at the glazed faces of those individuals who were breaking Capitol windows, defecating on the Capitol floor, or stealing documents and historical artifacts. They believed that they were "saving democracy" where in reality they were destroying our form of government. Hundreds of these Trumpers are now in prison for their illegal actions. Trump lives in a delusional world and those loyal to him do as well. Trump's criminal trial - the first against a previous U.S. President - is unparalleled in our history. He lacks the deductive reasoning to understand the graveness and solemnity of this historical event and has even fallen asleep while sitting at the defendant's table. And, he expects his loyal followers, MAGA, and Republican members of Congress to agree with his faulty assessment and lies. He is NOT a victim, but a phantasmagorical man who appears not capable of understanding truth or that he is the cause of the criminal trial.
I am an American who spent 12 years studying Russia and Russians, then another 20 years living in Russian-speaking countries. My children attended Moscow Public Schools, and I became bi-cultural in the process. There are thousands upon thousands of Russians living in the United States, but there are few of us who actually moved and lived in Russia. I experienced Russian leadership and government, and behaved, looked-like, and understood a country which actually operates the opposite of the United States. In the early 1990's, The Moscow Business Guide wrote a warning to all foreigners who suddenly wanted to do business in Russia. This pamphlet says " The most fundamental concepts that have guided your judgement for a lifetime are not even known, much less understood here." Russians have endured centuries of ruthless leadership which has formed a nation of people with an unfathomable depth of humanity. The United States is an unleashed babe in the woods of global societies, originally formed with Christian beliefs which have -for many Americans - been abandoned OR metamorphosed into different renditions of self-indulgence.
I live in a small mountainous town in northern Arizona. We have a group of Nazi's who drive around with swastika stickers on their pickup bumpers and/or Trump flags gleefully flying for all to see. They meet weekly on Main Street in an old building and think that Trump is the best President our country has ever elected. Yes Steven, this makes me mad. This little town has 36 churches and they are all well-attended. But once these good-hearted Christians leave church, the light switch goes off - not for all of them, but for many.
On January 6th, it was ONLY after Trump went on TV and told the insurrectionists that "he loved them" but they needed to go home, that they packed up their stolen items and their weapons and left. Plain and simple - their minds and actions are controlled by Trump and they are no longer capable of independent thought. Donald Trump's many-sided destructiveness reaches far and wide across our nation. He is dangerously unfit to be our President, yet almost half our country believes his lies and are actually oppressed or "reigned over" by Trump's coercive mind-control techniques. Brainwashing works - has been used in many other countries and by many dictators - but even the most educated among us seem to deny it's existence.
I attended a book-signing event at a Barnes and Noble in Tucson, AZ. A middle-aged woman came up to me and said "I think Putin is a great and smart leader." My mouth opened but no words came out. These were the exact same words spoken by Trump the previous week and right after Russia invaded Ukraine. This, my friends, is "brainwashing" and it is found in every corner of our country.
Yes, there are many reasons to be angry and even mad about the menacing, savage, threatening, and even vicious state of affairs in the United States at this time in our history. Our Speaker of the House is daily and deliberately intimidated and bullied by Greene and other House members in order to bow down to Trump instead of "doing the right thing." The "right thing" being sending weaponry, equipment, and support to Ukraine so they can DEFEND their country and their loved ones. Trump himself has made a mockery of our justice system. And the whole world is watching the United States crumble under the weight of one man who was either caught with his pants down in Russia or has succumbed to bribery.
Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have both stated that the Trump Organization has received $100M from Russian banks (www.businessinsider.com). Russian banks DO NOT OPERATE as American banks. They are managed and controlled by Russian Intelligence (KGB/FSB). They also gave $9.8M to Marie LePen, who is the French opposition leader in an attempt to overthrow the French government.
Trumpers in the U.S. are ignorant and mindless and not capable of understanding that Trump is controlled by Putin. The man they think they are obeying and submitting to is NOT Trump but Putin - who told the whole world in 1997 (in a book called The Foundations of Geopolitics) that his goal as the President of Russia is to destroy the United States.
According to Illarionov, a former economic advisor to Putin who now lives in the United States, "Putin is using Ukraine as a testing ground for his expansion throughout Europe and many former USSR countries." He wishes to restore the glory days of Russia's dominance - which in reality means a new world war. Putin/Russia, who is friends with Iran, provided weapons to HAMAS to start the Israel-Hamas war - he knew the U.S. would support Israel as he knew the U.S. would support Ukraine. This is a huge financial drain for a country who is operating with a national debt in excess of $34 trillion dollars as of this morning (April 19th). These wars are just another way for Putin to financially incapacitate and cause pain to the United States.
Illarionov also stated (From Democracy to Democrazy, p. 137) "If Putin is not stopped, he will continue on. It will mean thousands more will die. He is already responsible for many deaths . . .calculated it may be 500,000 or 600,000 deaths in Russia and outside of Russia . . . How long should we (the U.S. and the world) tolerate the endless spiral of deaths produced by one person? . . . Ukraine is his testing ground, and so far the West has not done enough to prevent his daily onslaught and bombing of hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, and other civilian properties. The West may not want to be at war with Russia, but they also may have NO CHOICE."
I have been shouting since 1993 that the Cold War did not end. Most Americans naively still believe that because President Bush said the Cold War ended - that it did - no questions asked, even though the Russian bear was signing an agreement with a brick behind his back and fingers crossed.
I see only a few solutions to reverse our predicament - improved formal education, massive and consistent social marketing, and long-term incarceration of Trump. The worst possible scenario is another world war, yet it is rapidly barreling down upon us and may be our one and only solution.
The landscape of American democracy is clouded with Russia's large shadow and Putin's control over Donald Trump. I wrote From Democracy to Democrazy for one purpose - to warn Americans of Putin's influence and his attempt to reshape the trajectory of American politics and American lives- which we see happening now. Republicans are blind to the truth. Trumpers are violently attempting to control our government with their loyalty to a man who is not their President but a hallucinatory cult-leader, and our democracy hangs in the balance. Yes Steven, I am MAD too. I feel as though no one is listening to the truth - and only the light of the truth can combat Putin's and Trump's web of lies.
Elizabeth
www.democrazy2020.org
As someone on X (twitter) pointed out yesterday,
many of Trump’s supporters know he’s lying. But they don’t care about his lies because they give them permission to act out—and I’ll say this about that—if acting out is more important to someone
than acknowledging truth, chances are they believe they’ve got nothing to lose and that makes them even more dangerous than Trump. So the goal should be to stop allowing Trump to inflame them
on a daily basis.
Every day Trump further harms this country and
all who live here with his poisonous rhetoric. It’s
time to lock him up & allow him no visitors with the exception of his attorney. I understand, sort of, why judges are wary of throwing Trump in jail. But look at the harm he’s doing! It’s pretty clear he doesn’t intend to follow the judge’s rules, so it’s time to try something different. Take his electronic toys away from him and force him to take a “time-out.” Treat him like the incorrigible mental child he is and if his supporters use that as an excuse to do harm to innocent people, lock them up too. It’s counterproductive to keep giving a child ultimatums and not follow through on them.
As for the pro-Putin faction in the Republican caucus, it should be obvious these are people who,
much like Trump, (and never forget he is their role-model) will do anything for money & power. They
are disruptive and chaotic.They act like hyperactive
children, in other words—just like Trump. Their bombastic manner is childish. They say patently stupid things and flout the rules.
So what’s driving them to be so outrageous? I
suspect they’re being rewarded by a foreign
enemy head of state, especially when they interfere with what the majority in Congress wants to do for Ukraine. It’s past time to call their bluff. The continual chaos and mixed messages frightens voters. It’s time for group leadership—and I don’t mean Speaker Johnson—to step up. Johnson is between a rock and a hard place.Pressuring him is useless.
Ideally, a group from both parties with leadership skills should corner these bombastic flame-throwers, and sternly explain to them they are on thin ice, that their pro-Putin rhetoric is counter to our national security interests. They should be reminded that it’s still illegal to accept foreign money campaign donations, imply an investigation because voters need to know whether they are loyal to America or to a foreign enemy head of state.
Steven,
Take heart, Diaper Don will soon be gone.
Thank you Steven. I will share your words with others as we all work to keep our republic and democracy.
We should be so lucky…
I think the justice department needs to do some serious serious introspection. Why has it taken so many decades to even bring Trump close to a courtroom for his crimes????
I will skip Ukraine because I, too, am angry. I do not understand the system that lets a handful of ignorant reps dictate the rules.
About the Trump saga, I have been asking the question since Jan 6: WHY is not there anyone in higher authority (aka DOJ) stopping him from repeating lies and attacking the rule of law, in public..in front of cameras and in front of the world? Gags do not work with him - he is a 5yr old child lacking maturity. He makes the American legal system a total joke, there is almost a comical side to it. Just when we think he is finally getting his day in court and things are moving the right direction..he walks out of the strict court setting and everything falls apart, he begins dismantling all that happened inside the court by reminding his supporters the judicial system and all Americans are against him and that HE is the victim. I have a solution Monsieur Garland, LOCK HIM UP! Preferably with no phone.
𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍, 𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍, 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍, 𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.
1. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔.
2. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒁𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒌𝒚𝒚'𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏'𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏, 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔.
3. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎, 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍.
4. 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕-𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆. 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒐𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔.
5. 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏, 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒔, 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚.
6. 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 1790 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑱𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏'𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒈.
7. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑨 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒐𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒔𝒌𝒚𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒅, 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈.
8. 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒖𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒚, 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅.
𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝑳𝑶𝑳.
We are pissed at the same things Steven..J.Last’s piece in the Bulwark calls what Johnson did “leadership”..People will be killed fighting a war, I get that..But Johnson’s hands are bloodied by his incompetence and stupidity..Since that bill came over from the Senate, if 1000 people were killed in Ukraine, 1/2 would be alive today if he hadn’t dicked around following Putin.. I don’t believe for a second that Johnson had a CTJ moment..This was a delay Putin wanted to degrade Ukrainian forces & morale and Trump and Johnson gave it to him..
Boo hoo hoo. What an overgrown baby he is . He is an imposter. On the edge of a tantrum at every turn . And his followers think he has some kind of authority. Bull.