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Cory Booker was unbelievably fantastic and amazing.
I admire and respect his effort, but in the end it was just a delaying tactic. IMO, nothing will really change. This will not inhibit Trump and the Republicans in Congress.
You may be underestimating the extent to which Booker's speech is galvanizing Democrats and others across the country who are deeply concerned (and/or freaked out) both by what Trump and the Republicans are doing and by the totally inadequate response of upper-level national Democrats. We're desperate for active leadership. Booker provided it, and along with it a reminder of what this country is supposed to be about.
It did and will change one thing, at least: the perception that nobody in Congress cares enough to do anything. THAT is a beginning imo.
Wants to bankrupt the country so all the oligarchs buy everything and have us all working / renting from them on very low wages.
I was just about to enter a comment, but then I read yours which nearly the same thing I was going to write. If you've ever read about the Great Depression of the 30's (other than Steinback) this is exactly what happened when family farmers couldn't meet their mortgage payments and numerous otherwise sound businesses all across the country went bankrupt. The ultra wealthy swooped in and picked valuable assets for pennies on the dollar. IMO, this is precisely what Trump is up to. Not only is he destroying the economy. but he's insuring that even people with a nestegg won't survive once the Social Security Administration and Medicare are gone.
I believe so too. There is more to his tariffs it’s not his plan he’s to stupid it’s the 2025 plan and they are ready. I’m really thinking he really didn’t win the election too many leaks in his idiotic rallies I heard. I don’t need your votes, you’ll never have to vote again THEY have taken all the guard rails away who’s gonna stop him from doing anything he’s got everyone fired in the FBI etc. etc. etc. like I said no more guard rails nobody to hold him responsible for all he’s done. He’s taken over our government. He’s going to stop it. He’s gonna get rid of federal government completely. It’s gonna be his government just like a dictatorship. It’s totally scary.
Read this stuff . . . thttps://electiontruthalliance.org/
Yes this is whst he is up to just Luke the book Shock Doctrine. This guy Popock should be on the Housewives of somewhere because he's not speaking about what is happening
Pure capitalism does not work without slavery.
*Everyone* needs to understand this and why the administration is attacking unions and his hardon for tariffs. He romanticizes a time when the rich pulled in millions and the not rich starved and died as illiterate paupers.
You are exactly right. This is their plan. They want to create a neo-feudalism based on the ideas of Curtis Yarvin.
Rob us of the little we have and let us die on the streets.
It's sad and pathetic how the poor MAGATS don't see what the convicted felon is doing to our country, keep up the resistance movement America. We win when we fight together, strenght in numbers!!
Trump says, “Tariffs ON!” Stock Market drops, THEN… Trump alerts his Oligarchs, “Tariffs OFF!” CHEETO and his Oligarchs buy crashed stocks and make a fortune.
I’ve been wondering how the very busy Supreme Court, which has to decline most of the requests across the country, has the time to address Trump‘s every little complaint. And I’m not just being sarcastic, I really want to know why they always put everything else aside to look into his concerns.
Because the stakes are high when the president is involved. They already gave him full immunity for any crime committed while in office. We'll see by their rulings if they're beginning to question that disastrous decision.
While Trump has immunity in the face of outright treason, Vance does not have immunity, Hegseth does not have immunity, Walz does not have immunity, Patel does not have immunity, Gabbard does not have immunity, Musk does not have immunity, I'm sure there are others. Charges may still be brought if we somehow remove this blight.
The only question then is who has the guts to bell the cat? Aesop's Fables: "Belling The Cat". Musk was right out in front of everyone paying people to vote. Did anyone arrest him for it? Nope. Because it seem that the uber rich and the politically powerful are indeed above the law. I see 2 possible reasons #1-LEO's are on musk/trump side or #2-no LEO has the guts to arrest any of them
You're right, but Trump will just pardon them, so in effect they DO have immunity.
Hint: They're in on it.
I saw the prison on the news program. These men are sleeping on stainless steel beds without pillows without linens without a blanket that’s. Their heads are shaved. I’m not sure they even have any clothing. This is criminal and Donald Trump should be impeached over it.
He should be in prison!!!!
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Musk is/was a orchestrated distraction. Let’s stop being deer in headlights for every orchestrated shit show du jour and pull back the curtain everyday exposing people like Stephen Miller, et al. Time we stop letting them hide.
He needs to be sued for buying votes!
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Just an observation. I didn't see Russia on the list of countries being tariffed. I wonder why. The US had $3+ billions in trade with them.
Of course not. Trump is a Russian asset, in bed with Putin.
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Buckle up your seat belts and enjoy the race to the bottom. It is totally bewildering how the GOP Congress can be so blind to the utter recklessness and insane delusions of this mad king. Congress passively acquiesced and capitulated their power, lining up to drink the toxic Kool-Aid, and just blankly sputters nonsense to the American People.
Already angered by the MAGA/ Project 2025 ransacking of our government, this economic catastrophe will be Trump's Waterloo. The rats are already distancing themselves from Trump and looking for escape routes off this sinking ship. We must not allow Trump to sink us with him!
All I can say is I am glad my veteran husband passed in July last year. He would be furious with what is happening especially after Trump's embarrassing and humiliating day of Assinine Tariffs. Can you believe he had the gall to place tariffs on MacDonald and Heard Islands? No one lives there except for penguins. I mean I have to laugh at all the jokes however our once great country has spiraled into madness and I have to fight to honor my husband.
So let me get this straight—Russia pays a 0% tariff to the U.S., while our NATO allies in the EU, including Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—the very nations staring down Russian tanks and cyberattacks—get hit with a 20% tariff? We’re punishing the frontline defenders of democracy while giving Putin a free pass? Brilliant strategy—if you're rooting for Moscow.
A Classified Letter from Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump
https://patricemersault.substack.com/p/classified-an-open-letter-from-vladimir?r=4d7sow
So will the man deported to El Salvador be rescued and brought back to the US
We, the People, ever the optimists, believe there is a beneficial plan, an altruist goal here. There is not. We know in our bones and souls, there is not. We have been hijacked by a disgruntled fragment of our voting population who envy everyone whom they perceive as "better than they ... oops, 'cuse me, them" and that is the fuel of their animus. Nothing matters but getting revenge, pretending that they "own" the very people they envy. Look around - money is a scorecard, not a tool. Take all "their" money, "their" democracy, and we win. But do they truly know what it is they won? They lost everything by "winning." I hope these pronouns don't obfuscate my point. Pronouns - a whole other crapfest.
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The Strongman Republicans and Nazis
The American electorate after being lied to by a wanna be dictator who wanted to use the presidency as a get out of jail free card got a Fuhrer modeled after Hungary's Orban
Rand Paul(R Ten) said it best yesterday “After Republicans put the US into a Depression in 1930 with a tariff war Americans didn’t trust us with power for 60y” The Nazis have used the American electorate like a big experiment Test out a theory and see if it works
Nixon theorized that going off the gold standard would create unlimited government support and it has now led to a currency crisis at the height of a credit cycle and runaway inflation
Reagan theorized “trickle down economics” which by studies didn’t work and created the greatest wealth gap in history
George W theorized “weapons of mass destruction” and that got us the long Middle East War Under his watchful eye the Nazis created the real estate mortgage crisis which triggered the Great Recession in 2008
Now the Nazis and SCOTUS theorize that the Unitary Executive(UE) which gave us a Nazi strongman who will lead us to the Promised land or so Germany thought in the 1930’s But the UE has turned out to be a charlatan who will by most observers throw the country into a recession and possibly another depression 1930 is beginning to sound eerily reminiscent “You have to burn the whole thing down” says Curtis Yarvin and parroted by JD Vance with his wealthy billionaire cronies
Unfortunately the American electorate has a bad case of amnesia until catastrophe strikes Then everyone remembers the past
Trump only does what he’s allowed to do.
No he is over reaching his executive branch he needs to be stopped
What constrains him?
The issue isn't constraint -- it's what he's *being told* to do, though anything revenge-related is probably his own idea.
What?
I really want to know who the idiots are that tRump has been listening to, telling him how great all these tariffs are going to be. Who?
Speaking of whether something is legal, can someone explain the basis upon which 47 is able to take back title I funds from schools. Didn't Congress appropriate those funds? And how is he able to create anti-diversity policies in a memo that school systems need to abide by?
If he's going after 'brown', let's go after 'Orange' people!
I think might as touch has to talk about project 2025 and bring it to America’s attention. At least talk about it at least steer people to it. You give so much great information. This is part of their plan and if you don’t enlighten, people we
will lose.
Never forget how we got here - 50 years of corporatist, establishment Republicans AND Democrats economically pillaging the middle class and poor to further enrich themselves, their billionaire donors, and to fund the pathological military-industrial complex. As in declining civilizations before us, greed and the lust for power has rotted us from within.
Now, as the GOP has died and the MAGAts have risen with their fascist dictator, it is up to the Dems alone to realize the incredible harm they've done, change course, and fight like hell. The MAGAts already control Congress, so they are now threatening the judicial branch and going hard after voting rights. Watch as they attempt to suppress the vote in every sneaky, subversive, and illegal way possible.
This means we've got to work even harder to make sure we get every citizen to vote, since that is our only peaceful way back to power. But we also need to step up and find a way to get even more involved. A mass of people phone banking for a progressive candidate even one hour a week, for example, can make the difference in an election, and I can tell you from experience that it gives you a real sense of personal empowerment. And it's something you can do for any candidate no matter where you live.
Complaining does nothing, and there is no one to save us. It is up to WE, THE PEOPLE to save ourselves. Have courage, resist tyranny, and please get involved and take some kind of real action. We need you!
I’ve never been more grateful to be a resident of New Jersey
I don't believe they think it's going to work. They are using the "economic need" for tariffs and talking about industry in America. It's a pretext for a- appearing powerful and b- a way to first harm the every day american then coerce industries and companies to pledge fealty. Chris Murphy has such good explanations of this. He was on CNN Amanapour last night and there is a WA examiner interview today...... alll of it is power. Eg, his seeming support of Jews on campus, which is a valid concern of course, is not why he is disappearing protesters and op ed writers, denying them due process, he is forcing us to see this barbarism, normalize it, feel powerless, he is taking power, destroying decency. Same with the deportations to the El Salvador prison with no due process. That's not about helping our country. It's about brute force power. It's the what but not just the what he says, it's the how that points you to the real what. Awful. He will go down!
What do you mean why is he doing this?? He's a psychopath. He is on a vengence tour and wants to punish Americans and destroy America because of his 2020 election loss. He has wound himself so tight with rage over the last 4 yrs that he is doing everything possible to destroy this country. He has to be removed. His entire administration has to be removed.
Pay more attention to the unresolved state Supreme Court race in NC!!! Where’s the reporting on this steal??? We need to shine a light on this boondoggle every single day. They want to invalidate 60,000 valid votes so the Rep. has a chance to still win. But only invalidate them for this race, not the presidential, governor, senate, house or other races. We have to call this bullshit out loudly and daily to make them call off the most blatant election tampering in state history!!!
Republicans brought us this problem. It's up to them to impeach and remove
Every hour is unsettling.
How can we all stop paying our taxes so there is no money for the grifters to steal?
Good Ole Strom Thurmond had a baby with a black women. The Thurmond family wouldn’t let the daughter Esse Mae be buried in the family plot.
I have a Substack everyone should have a Substack
Lay I heard Musk, it's not posting the money out that he claimed he was going to
When it have been better for Biden to add two more Supreme Court justices, we have the law in our favor. Was it just cause he was too cold he was at a fight. I got that there was so much you could’ve done that he didn’t. I think y’all should report on all the people removed from the voter rolls in Georgia And Arizona. And when they got to their voting district, their names were not there. Hundreds of millions of people‘s names were removed.
This is important information
I want to hear someone talk about it
Thanks so much for calling attention to those two Florida races. Those margin drops are huge, and not enough news outlets are mentioning it. Also -- Gay Valimont and Josh Weil were good, solid candidates.
The “noise” that’s pumping up Trump is on radical biased iHeart talk radio with no pushback. The dittoheads are getting their talking points for automatic thinking there. The flavors of the day are privatization would be good so wait and see and judges are biased and should be removed, tax cuts don’t raise the debt, Biden was the worst President, Democrats are demons and don’t care about the people of USA. This is pumping 24/7 on radio waves to millions. Oh they also advertise for Trump gold watches. How do you pushback that reach?
C-span?
Latest examples of Democrat corruption, malfeasance, and total lack of support for their citizens. Make no mistake, democrats will NEVER put the peoples needs first, any more than republicans, because they all represent the same bottom line. This is an oligarchy, and it’s time the people face reality, because Meidas will never face it. From the great journalists over at The Lever: “Former chief antitrust official and Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan earned high praise from far-right commentator Steve Bannon this week, who claimed if Democrats had embraced Khan’s antitrust work during the campaign, “they would actually have been more competitive against us in November of 2024.” Last year, former Vice President Kamala Harris refused to defend Khan when wealthy Democratic donors — including executives at firms with open investigations at the FTC — attacked her. The Lever later learned that Khan’s agency had launched a probe into Uber, which employed Harris’s brother-in-law and top campaign adviser.
In an interview with David Sirota at the time, Khan said this: “The FTC is focused on delivering for working people and standing up for them against corporate abuse… so I think that’s work that everybody should be able to get behind. Unless you’re one of the monopolies or abusive corporations.”
🧐 What more is there to say? Back in 2021, Democrats refused to empower then-President of the Senate and Vice President Kamala Harris to wield her authority to bypass the chamber’s unelected parliamentarian and force a vote on a federal $15 minimum wage. Now, Senate Republicans in the same position will blow past the Senate parliamentarian to force through an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy. “
You're right in what you assert about the neoliberal Dems & GOP, but the GOP is much, much worse. Trump is a sick, depraved criminal. He cares for nothing except feeding his bottomless addiction for wealth and power. He and Musk are megalomaniacs. Trump wants to operate as a dictator unconstrained by laws. Musk is the same. The Dems fucked up by abandoning the working class, but there is no one among the MAGAts who want to see the working class rise like AOC & Bernie, and no on among the Dems who wants to yield dictatorial powers like Trump. The Congressional Dems were never afraid of disagreeing with Biden or constraining the powers of the executive branch. What we are seeing now is akin to Hitler's rise to power in Germany in the 1930's. The MAGAts are neo-fascists, and Trump, Musk, Lutnick, etc. are not just neo-fascists but neo-feudalists as well. It is pathological.
Loved “All for naught”. Haven’t heard that phrase in years!
Trump didn’t just start a trade war — he exposed the collapse of a world order.
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Read the full piece:
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Trump says, “Tariffs ON!” Stock Market drops, THEN… Trump alerts his Oligarchs, “Tariffs OFF!” CHEETO and his Oligarchs buy crashed stocks and make a fortune.
District 1 and 6 will change.
I used Planned Parenthood for several years as a young woman for women's care.
Ohoned banked for Susan Crowford. Very happy she won.
Trump Is Just Replicating The Art Of The Deal...!!..?? Ch.2 , Idiot , If These Other Countries Call His Bluff..,!!.??? Or Raise There Oun Tariffs...??? He's Going To Be In Real Trouble...!!!..??? 😵💫😵💫😵💫 And The Cost To Our Country... ????
How much is the United States paying to house/imprison these deportees and to who/
Madam this is not a non serious person. Yes he is stupid and has a big ego. This is a well planned crash of our economy while simultaneously hollowing out our Federal agencies. And Popock you need to get more serious in your delivery
Love to listen to you, Michael. But let your guest speak before the 50 minute mark. Would you monopolize with a male guest?
How is it that Trump has so many sticky fingers in El Salvador's cryptocurrency but he has no power to bring innocent &/or protected men back?
I watch Aronberg, too! I love everybody you’ve brought onto your teams
I love Shan. I watch him whenever he shows up on my feed.