Let's hope we have our day in November. Sending ICE into the airports is, I fear, the start of massive intimidation tactics that they will no doubt use during the midterms.
Not a single reporter has bothered to ask Tom Holman 'what are these people going to do once they get to the airport? What kind of training did they receive about how to handle lines, operate the scanners, process the tickets, manage the gray trays filled with laptops, metal, shoes...all in time for a passenger to catch a flight?'
Massive, pile-on klusterphlucks dead ahead. Danger, Will Robinson. Danger.
90% of news journalists have been increasingly in GOP pockets since Reagan ended the Fairness Doc. We have NOT had fact & evidence based analysis since that time. IF we had, everyone would NOT think that the parties are the same. They would have been shown the fascists steps the GOP had been taking. (Hint: Hitler's first step in 1933 was to take over the newspapers.). The news media never emphasized T's background, but dug up or focussed on any misstep by HRC & Harris.
People: be confident, courageous and know your rights! Be proud of your role in our prodemocracy movement and be peaceful in our March this Saturday: No Kings 3!!!
Thank you for this clarity. Thousands of Americans with vast experience in the Middle East knew this was the consequence of attacking Iran. Trump is incapable of learning from other people-- on anything, except cruelty and greed.
He will step on anyone, anything, anytime to add to his and his sons' and son-in law's billions. That's what he knows and all he cares about. I hope the MAGA-enthralled folks are beginning to realize this. Everything stems from his grifting: the cruelty, bigotry, and mismanagement (the latter a kind term). And it's working for him. Will there ever be a reckoning? Well, there was Nuremberg. I recommend the newest version of that story starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malik. It should be a cautionary tale, but only if people are smart enough to see the signs.
Please understand that EVERY GOP MOC & in this administration is to blame. T is the "figurehead". The rest chose NOT to stop him. They and the white male billionaires want to make POC, women and children into workers for them.
I don't think we can survive until January (when the new Congress would be seated--a lot can happen between November and January and it will all be terrible). The fact that there are absolutely no limits to the mayhem and horrors this maladministration perpetrates because the minions in Congress refuse to protect anyone but themselves means we are essentially powerless. I want to see Dems in Congress be willing to get arrested, be willing to engage in far more public altercations with the fascists in their midst. We now have a media system that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Felon and his spawn and the Dems are locked out. Expressing "concern" and going on NPR is not nearly enough. But the Dems persist in acting as if this is a normal political system, when it patently is not.
Very well said, Linda. At the moment, the Congress has all but ceased to exist. And yet there are some brilliant men and women in there who are being kept powerless.
What is hard to understand about the fact that the GOP have had full control of both houses of Congress? Since Gingrich, the GOP have forced all the members of the House to vote as told or be replaced. CONGRESS has not "ceased to exist". McConnell did a lot of damage while leading the Senate especially during Obama's presidency. Thune is no better.
NO, DEM MOC are NOT to blame for what is happening. Voters ARE. THEY elected a MAJORITY of GOP MOC in BOTH the House & Senate. The dems have NOT controlled a single vote. In Nov of 2024, many millions of voters chose NOT to vote for Harris DESPITE THE CLEAR DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY. They let a bigoted, liar who speaks in word salads and does NOT think that ANY LAW applies to him. There was zero excuse for NOT knowing what a 2nd T presidency would mean. Astonishingly, there were people who knew who he was, who didn't vote or voted 3rd party anyway.
Our responsibility is, at the very least, to vote for 1 of the 2 main candidates. They are the ONLY choices. POC when they first had the right to vote asked themselves the question: which of the 2 candidates is least likely to make their lives more difficult.
Personally, I find it mind-numbing to try to figure out what he was thinking at any second. He's so ignorant but convinced of his intelligence, it's staggering.
This is clearly the most dangerous and damaging distraction to the coverup of the Epstein files yet. Only a truly demented and evil mind could have conceived of such an action.
Don the Con manages to make George W. Bush, who made a career out of ill-advised foreign adventures, look like Lincoln and Washington combined.
And the lesson of Vietnam wasn't new. America didn't "lose" the war in the classical sense. Rather, the American public was just getting sick of fighting a war that seemed to have no end.
The reason it wasn't new can be traced back to George Washington! In the entire war, he fought 9 battles and lost 6 of them. So how come we don't sing "God Save the King"? Several reasons:
1. Washington won when his back was to the wall and he absolutely needed a win
2. But after every defeat, he managed to get his army out intact and able to fight again.
So after Yorktown in 1781, Britain looked at the situation
1. The war had been going on for 6 years and was no closer to being won than in 1775.
2. Britain controlled many big cities, but couldn't control the vast contryside, where most people lived.
3. The war was never especially popular with Parliament and the British public
4. It was draining the treasury
5. With France and Spain allied with the US, the entire empire was at risk of raids from their navies.
6. And on the positive side, Britain was really establishing themselves in India, so they had bigger fish to fry.
So while Britain didn't actually "lose", it just became not worth their trouble to continue fighting in a perpetual stalemate.
Sounds a lot like Vietnam, only this time we played the part of Britain. And that's how Iran will probably turn out-- they'll both outlast us, and we'll have unacceptable consequences by continuing. Only Don the Con is too stupid to realize it.
Very good analogy. Washington made plenty of mistakes, but he didn't make the same mistake twice. We also owe a massive debt to France for their critical assistance at Yorktown, sometimes called the last medieval siege.
I've heard a saying: "Fools don't learn from their mistakes, so they make the same ones again and again. Wise people learn from their mistakes, so they will not make the same one twice. Very wise people study the mistakes of others, so they can avoid making them entirely.
I've seen Lafayette's grave in Paris. It has the American flag on it. He wanted to lie in American soil, and I understand that this was arranged for his burial.
Not to mention Vietnam's population has more than doubled since 1968 yet even with a flood of of 'illegal' immigrants US population is headed toward world wide numeric irrelevance. Land of the free and home of the billionaires.
The stooges include the general officers that he ensured are stocked with loyalists. Blame goes on them too. They took an oath to obey the Constitution, which they violated. They've agreed to commit war crimes. What else might they be capable of if Trump says "jump?"
Jennifer you mentioned Trump's "ignorance," "Stupidity," but you left off his dominant charaistic... His delusional mind. Trump grasp on reality is non-existent. Plus there are 77,000,000 people who believe this 36 times a felon, pedeofile is better than Clinton or Harris.
We better make sure democrats win big in November and we better find the right candidate for the White House in 2028 as a imagine we will still be doing Israel’s bidding in Iran at that time.
Unfortunately, this war is very much alive. It may well be taken from Trump's incomptent hands, to be managed by Netanyahu the war criminal, and the powers that be in Iran and the other countries that have now become involved.
Hi Steve, I know. Because of him schoolgirls are dead and I'm sure the Israeli one does not care. This conflict and its consequences are very far from over
My comment tried to emphasize that drump is an absolute failure and ranks amongst the lowest despicable creatures ever to have spend time on this planet.
There's only one poll that matters. That's in the US Senate and the number is 67. That's how many votes are needed to convict in an impeachment trial. Will Senate Trump Toadies ever fear for their jobs? If not it doesn't matter if the Monster's public approval is zero. He won't change. He won't become human and won't voluntarily leave office. If a miracle happened and the Toady Butt Lickers voted to convict, which Federal force would have the actual job of physically removing the Monster from the WH in handcuffs? I have a dream.
"Voters’ anger may well rise as they learn more about Trump’s stupidity and Republicans’ refusal to challenge him." Here's the real question - Haven't voters learned enough already to be angry? What, in fact, are many voters learning about what's going on? What kind of news coverage are huge numbers of Americans getting? My worst fear is that many, many Americans are effectively blind to the real state of affairs, because they chose news sources that intentionally keep them blind.
I know someone in the Midwest who watches, guess what, and told me recently that DJT needed to go to war to keep Iran from bombing us with a nuclear bomb. She believed it because you-know-what-station keeps repeating it.
Yikes. This is clearly the logjam that we are up against. This poor deluded soul hasn't learned that Iran does not (yet) possess a missile capabile of the distance to deliver such a bomb to us. Faux Noise should be labeled a domestic terrorist organization for the lies and propaganda that they dish out.
About a year ago, a co-member of Indivisible and I created a boycott list of Fox advertisers. (Yes, I held my nose and watched the show for several days to find out who was advertising.) That would need to be updated, but a coherent and massive boycott of those advertisers would hobble Fox. The question is, who will organize it? Like any other boycott, there needs to be significant participation or it goes nowhere, which was our experience. Not enough #s.
tRump will always claim he made the right decisions and throw any convenient underling under the bus. He has fired all the expertise our government has spent years hiring. He isn't just incompetent - he is anti-competent and a lousy, expensive future awaits us. Edit: changed 'hustling' to 'just'. Damnable spellcheck!
Thanks for the new word, "pusillanimous". Love it. I need to find ways to use it and work it into my vocab. But seriously, this debacle reminds me of his buddy Putin's "special military operation" (not war!) during which he was going to take over Ukraine in three days. Who coulda known the Ukrainians wouldn't welcome him with open arms? This is what happend when someone starts a war, ignoring all intelligence briefing, based on a feeling in his bones (spurs).
I am very concerned about the free rein given Russia in Ukraine. Neither Russia nor China are bearing any costs of this war. I am very concerned as well that there continues further inflammation of antisemitism. Burning medical/fire trucks in London is but the latest manifestation of the endless hate/blaming.
Let's hope we have our day in November. Sending ICE into the airports is, I fear, the start of massive intimidation tactics that they will no doubt use during the midterms.
Not a single reporter has bothered to ask Tom Holman 'what are these people going to do once they get to the airport? What kind of training did they receive about how to handle lines, operate the scanners, process the tickets, manage the gray trays filled with laptops, metal, shoes...all in time for a passenger to catch a flight?'
Massive, pile-on klusterphlucks dead ahead. Danger, Will Robinson. Danger.
shoot ticket agents who are toooo slow ?
90% of news journalists have been increasingly in GOP pockets since Reagan ended the Fairness Doc. We have NOT had fact & evidence based analysis since that time. IF we had, everyone would NOT think that the parties are the same. They would have been shown the fascists steps the GOP had been taking. (Hint: Hitler's first step in 1933 was to take over the newspapers.). The news media never emphasized T's background, but dug up or focussed on any misstep by HRC & Harris.
People: be confident, courageous and know your rights! Be proud of your role in our prodemocracy movement and be peaceful in our March this Saturday: No Kings 3!!!
Peaceful, but determined, loud, and clear. It will be good to be able to actually see other, learn who your unseen friends are.
And only vote for dems who can win any race from town officials to Congress in Nov.
We must NOT be intimidated. I will be poll working for the first time ever in central Wisconsin.
I’m flying Thursday. Was supposed to be a fun trip!
Thank you for this clarity. Thousands of Americans with vast experience in the Middle East knew this was the consequence of attacking Iran. Trump is incapable of learning from other people-- on anything, except cruelty and greed.
Anyone with half a brain knew that.
Now Trump wants to "pause" attacks while he "negotiates" (IOW, solicits bribes).
TACOs, anyone?
Insider information, anyone?
He will step on anyone, anything, anytime to add to his and his sons' and son-in law's billions. That's what he knows and all he cares about. I hope the MAGA-enthralled folks are beginning to realize this. Everything stems from his grifting: the cruelty, bigotry, and mismanagement (the latter a kind term). And it's working for him. Will there ever be a reckoning? Well, there was Nuremberg. I recommend the newest version of that story starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malik. It should be a cautionary tale, but only if people are smart enough to see the signs.
Please understand that EVERY GOP MOC & in this administration is to blame. T is the "figurehead". The rest chose NOT to stop him. They and the white male billionaires want to make POC, women and children into workers for them.
I don't think we can survive until January (when the new Congress would be seated--a lot can happen between November and January and it will all be terrible). The fact that there are absolutely no limits to the mayhem and horrors this maladministration perpetrates because the minions in Congress refuse to protect anyone but themselves means we are essentially powerless. I want to see Dems in Congress be willing to get arrested, be willing to engage in far more public altercations with the fascists in their midst. We now have a media system that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Felon and his spawn and the Dems are locked out. Expressing "concern" and going on NPR is not nearly enough. But the Dems persist in acting as if this is a normal political system, when it patently is not.
I agree. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
This will make a great sign!
Very well said, Linda. At the moment, the Congress has all but ceased to exist. And yet there are some brilliant men and women in there who are being kept powerless.
What is hard to understand about the fact that the GOP have had full control of both houses of Congress? Since Gingrich, the GOP have forced all the members of the House to vote as told or be replaced. CONGRESS has not "ceased to exist". McConnell did a lot of damage while leading the Senate especially during Obama's presidency. Thune is no better.
NO, DEM MOC are NOT to blame for what is happening. Voters ARE. THEY elected a MAJORITY of GOP MOC in BOTH the House & Senate. The dems have NOT controlled a single vote. In Nov of 2024, many millions of voters chose NOT to vote for Harris DESPITE THE CLEAR DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY. They let a bigoted, liar who speaks in word salads and does NOT think that ANY LAW applies to him. There was zero excuse for NOT knowing what a 2nd T presidency would mean. Astonishingly, there were people who knew who he was, who didn't vote or voted 3rd party anyway.
Our responsibility is, at the very least, to vote for 1 of the 2 main candidates. They are the ONLY choices. POC when they first had the right to vote asked themselves the question: which of the 2 candidates is least likely to make their lives more difficult.
"I will not guess what went through this man's mind."
I will. NOTHING. And the void increases every day...
Personally, I find it mind-numbing to try to figure out what he was thinking at any second. He's so ignorant but convinced of his intelligence, it's staggering.
He thought about his next golf outing. That’s my guess
Or his next excursion. To Cuba, maybe.
Not the fog of war - the blur of panic.
This is clearly the most dangerous and damaging distraction to the coverup of the Epstein files yet. Only a truly demented and evil mind could have conceived of such an action.
Don the Con manages to make George W. Bush, who made a career out of ill-advised foreign adventures, look like Lincoln and Washington combined.
And the lesson of Vietnam wasn't new. America didn't "lose" the war in the classical sense. Rather, the American public was just getting sick of fighting a war that seemed to have no end.
The reason it wasn't new can be traced back to George Washington! In the entire war, he fought 9 battles and lost 6 of them. So how come we don't sing "God Save the King"? Several reasons:
1. Washington won when his back was to the wall and he absolutely needed a win
2. But after every defeat, he managed to get his army out intact and able to fight again.
So after Yorktown in 1781, Britain looked at the situation
1. The war had been going on for 6 years and was no closer to being won than in 1775.
2. Britain controlled many big cities, but couldn't control the vast contryside, where most people lived.
3. The war was never especially popular with Parliament and the British public
4. It was draining the treasury
5. With France and Spain allied with the US, the entire empire was at risk of raids from their navies.
6. And on the positive side, Britain was really establishing themselves in India, so they had bigger fish to fry.
So while Britain didn't actually "lose", it just became not worth their trouble to continue fighting in a perpetual stalemate.
Sounds a lot like Vietnam, only this time we played the part of Britain. And that's how Iran will probably turn out-- they'll both outlast us, and we'll have unacceptable consequences by continuing. Only Don the Con is too stupid to realize it.
Very good analogy. Washington made plenty of mistakes, but he didn't make the same mistake twice. We also owe a massive debt to France for their critical assistance at Yorktown, sometimes called the last medieval siege.
I've heard a saying: "Fools don't learn from their mistakes, so they make the same ones again and again. Wise people learn from their mistakes, so they will not make the same one twice. Very wise people study the mistakes of others, so they can avoid making them entirely.
Love that saying! Thanks for posting it.
I've seen Lafayette's grave in Paris. It has the American flag on it. He wanted to lie in American soil, and I understand that this was arranged for his burial.
Not to mention Vietnam's population has more than doubled since 1968 yet even with a flood of of 'illegal' immigrants US population is headed toward world wide numeric irrelevance. Land of the free and home of the billionaires.
The stooges include the general officers that he ensured are stocked with loyalists. Blame goes on them too. They took an oath to obey the Constitution, which they violated. They've agreed to commit war crimes. What else might they be capable of if Trump says "jump?"
Jennifer you mentioned Trump's "ignorance," "Stupidity," but you left off his dominant charaistic... His delusional mind. Trump grasp on reality is non-existent. Plus there are 77,000,000 people who believe this 36 times a felon, pedeofile is better than Clinton or Harris.
If they only had a penis.
with which to think
We could have another Lincoln🎶
GOOD STUFF, BUT PLEASE GET EPSTEIN BACK ON THE FRONT BURNER! Cat on the keyboard, disregard the caps lock!
The burr under the saddle.
So that's why...? No, Trump doesn't like pets. Only the human variety.
We better make sure democrats win big in November and we better find the right candidate for the White House in 2028 as a imagine we will still be doing Israel’s bidding in Iran at that time.
Boy howdy you ain't just flapping your gums.
The candidates are there.
Everything drump touches dies..... even drump's own chosen war with Iran.
Unfortunately, this war is very much alive. It may well be taken from Trump's incomptent hands, to be managed by Netanyahu the war criminal, and the powers that be in Iran and the other countries that have now become involved.
Hi Steve, I know. Because of him schoolgirls are dead and I'm sure the Israeli one does not care. This conflict and its consequences are very far from over
My comment tried to emphasize that drump is an absolute failure and ranks amongst the lowest despicable creatures ever to have spend time on this planet.
Perhaps you put it too subtly, or I've not had enough coffee this morning to recognize what you intended. Apologies.
There's only one poll that matters. That's in the US Senate and the number is 67. That's how many votes are needed to convict in an impeachment trial. Will Senate Trump Toadies ever fear for their jobs? If not it doesn't matter if the Monster's public approval is zero. He won't change. He won't become human and won't voluntarily leave office. If a miracle happened and the Toady Butt Lickers voted to convict, which Federal force would have the actual job of physically removing the Monster from the WH in handcuffs? I have a dream.
The task of physical removal falls to the U.S. Secret Service. Whether or not they would follow such an order is in question at this point.
The Rs have unlimited funds for blowing stuff up - which we are very good at.
Health care? Food security? Assistance to the least of us? Unaffordable!
MAGA's priorities are clear. Death and destruction. You betcha. Promote the general Welfare? Woke commie.
In a nutshell.
"Voters’ anger may well rise as they learn more about Trump’s stupidity and Republicans’ refusal to challenge him." Here's the real question - Haven't voters learned enough already to be angry? What, in fact, are many voters learning about what's going on? What kind of news coverage are huge numbers of Americans getting? My worst fear is that many, many Americans are effectively blind to the real state of affairs, because they chose news sources that intentionally keep them blind.
The people who voted for this will not rethink because the very capacity to do so was lacking in the first place.
I know someone in the Midwest who watches, guess what, and told me recently that DJT needed to go to war to keep Iran from bombing us with a nuclear bomb. She believed it because you-know-what-station keeps repeating it.
Yikes. This is clearly the logjam that we are up against. This poor deluded soul hasn't learned that Iran does not (yet) possess a missile capabile of the distance to deliver such a bomb to us. Faux Noise should be labeled a domestic terrorist organization for the lies and propaganda that they dish out.
How to de-fang Fox?
About a year ago, a co-member of Indivisible and I created a boycott list of Fox advertisers. (Yes, I held my nose and watched the show for several days to find out who was advertising.) That would need to be updated, but a coherent and massive boycott of those advertisers would hobble Fox. The question is, who will organize it? Like any other boycott, there needs to be significant participation or it goes nowhere, which was our experience. Not enough #s.
Want to know what the masses are thinking? YouTube comments will tell you.
tRump will always claim he made the right decisions and throw any convenient underling under the bus. He has fired all the expertise our government has spent years hiring. He isn't just incompetent - he is anti-competent and a lousy, expensive future awaits us. Edit: changed 'hustling' to 'just'. Damnable spellcheck!
Thanks for the new word, "pusillanimous". Love it. I need to find ways to use it and work it into my vocab. But seriously, this debacle reminds me of his buddy Putin's "special military operation" (not war!) during which he was going to take over Ukraine in three days. Who coulda known the Ukrainians wouldn't welcome him with open arms? This is what happend when someone starts a war, ignoring all intelligence briefing, based on a feeling in his bones (spurs).
The Wizard of Oz uses the word when awarding courage, ‘pusillanimous creatures’ I think is the phrase.
Spiro Agnew made "pusillanimous" famous in one of his many denials of wrongdoing. He called his detractors "pusillanimous pussy-footers."
Sounds like Agnew. I would have been much too young to understand that.
Sylvester the Cat.
That rings a bell!
I am very concerned about the free rein given Russia in Ukraine. Neither Russia nor China are bearing any costs of this war. I am very concerned as well that there continues further inflammation of antisemitism. Burning medical/fire trucks in London is but the latest manifestation of the endless hate/blaming.