So many things to tackle all at once. Watching the worst reality tv show last night with court jesters’ just awful explanations about how planes were brought to a halt, makes me so happy that Dems won everywhere. I want Trump and his regime to feel the walls closing in on them, bigly!
As others have said, Sean Duffy's plea for $50 billion dollars "to save our skies before the Thanksgiving holiday " (or words to that effect) is nothing short of a bare-faced attempt to extort Congress and the American people. "Give us the money we want or it won't be safe to fly." For one thing, this regime has a history of refusing to spend the money Congress has appropriated for the purpose it was appropriated for. How do we know this money won't be redirected to ICE or the ballroom or taking some 'enemy' to court or some future vanity boondoggle?
What's more important to me is that this president's priorities don't run to improving infrastructure or safety for the citizenry. Duffy's pleadings on behalf of his boss just aren't credible. This president's priorities, what he gives time and attention to and spends money on, are his vainglorious, frivolous vanity projects.
NOT ONE PENNY MORE! Not for anything, because he will only spend $$$ on things that benefit him and boost his ego.
Thank you for your response. As I sat watching the press conference, I thought and then said to my husband the same thing about the "appropriated" money. Duffy, Mullen and the other people in the Trump administration have no morals and sense of decency. They will cheat, lie or do whatever to glorify Trump and to enrich themselves.
I was very disappointed that none of the reporters at the press conference (more of a canonization of the president, really) challenged Duffy's statements. Neither did Jen Psaki in her comments later on MSNBC. Thankfully, not all voters are brain dead.
Actually, Monica Alba DID challenge Sean Duffy when he said how desperately they needed the $50 billion for upgrades... She pointed out that the president's party had control of everything for the past nearly two years and why wasn't that enough? His response? What network are you with? Then told her that obviously she'd never covered the 90 or more press conferences he'd held. It all gets so tiresome. Everybody singing Trump's praises. And a contract for airline upgrades was awarded to Duffy's son in law and that fired up this week... wonder if that had anything to do with the grounding...
There was one reporter who brought up the fact that the Republicans have had complete control of Congress for the past two years. Also, I watched Jen Psaki conversation with Peter Alexander. I thought their discussion addressed the numerous problems regarding Duffy's and Mullen's press conference. Psaki and Alexander had a great view from being a former press secretary and a White House correspondent.
You can add to the litany of Issues relating to Trump’s fitness for office his disappearance during yesterday’s grounding of all flights in the US. At a time when many Americans were concerned that the Country might be under attack and looking for information and guidance from the White House, Trump was missing in action. No address to the Nation. No written statement. Not even any tweets. Just a belated and disjointed phone call to Fox News. Was Trump medically, psychologically or cognitively incapable of fulfilling the duties of his office?
Thanks Norm for all you are doing. Stay healthy because the next couple years are going to be a doozie. Strongmen do not go quietly, as Ruth Ben Ghiat stated. Neither will the Charles Koch/Leonard Leo Supreme Court. Throw in Thiel, Musk, the venture capitalist Silicon Valley tech bros and you've got a witches' brew of bad.
Trump & Co wreck the economy, balloon the deficit & transfer wealth to the wealthiest "patriots".
Time to end the Trump & Co gaslighting, propaganda & serial criminality. Is there a line past which Billions in Trump & Co corruption & fraud ceases to be tolerated? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PIkmjwGsQ
THE PERVASIVE ABUSE OF POWER AND CORRUPTION HAS CONVERTED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INTO A POLITICAL SEWER
On November 14, 2026, the NY Times reported that NextEra Energy of Juno Beach, Florida is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy of Richmond, VA that would result in the world’s largest retail electric utility . ( It had previously been reported that the Washington D.C. area would be the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. to support ai processing).
Needless to say, there is much local opposition to this colossal merger due to expected increases in utility costs.
During Trump’s 2 administrations there have been countless examples of how Trump has abused his power and authority to shake down or solicit personal financial benefits from corporations and other entities, individuals and even foreign countries for his benefit and the benefit of those rich oligarchs and political contributors seeking favors, licenses, exemptions, government contracts and other government benefits that have now come with a price.
There are also reports galore of how Trump has personally enriched himself and his family through the abuses of his office in the hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars.
The nature and extent of the corruption within this Republican administration comes as no surprise to anyone. As a matter of fact, the exit polls on November 3rd revealed that corruption was the most important issue among the electorate.
Getting back to the NY Times report that Next Era Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy, the Times reported that NextEra “was the only U.S. power company listed as a donor to the construction of the White House ballroom”. Are we so dumb as to believe that NextEra expected nothing in return or that Trump would not be expected to return the favor? This payment was recognized by both as a “quid pro quo” ( something for something) and now it’s payback time for Trump to intervene on behalf of NextEra.
When the new Congress convenes, in January their first order of business should be to conduct investigations to identify how the President and those riding on his coattails abused their positions for personal or political gain and to draft legislation to reveal and prevent such abuses in the future.
Having served as a federal prosecutor, I believe that a large portion of the abuses that amount to criminal misconduct could be federally prosecuted under the federal RICO legislation, embodied in Title 18, US Code Section 1961 et seq. The prosecutions would allege that they committed specified crimes in furtherance of running the administration or their departments as a criminal enterprise. Given the DOJ’s complicity in some of that conduct, however, it would be necessary to defer such prosecutions until Trump and the other perpetrators have left office.
Certainly, we all know that Trump’s stooges on the Supreme Court have shrouded him in almost total immunity from federal prosecution and that, just before ignominiously leaving office in January, 2029, it is expected that he will pardon his accomplices and co-conspirators for their federal crimes.
However, what they may not be aware of is that the federal RICO statute can be used by the Civil Division of the next Democratic administration’s DOJ to sue the perpetrators to claw back their ill-begotten gains. Presidential pardons are no defense to such suits.
Beyond outrageous! This is a big FU to the people’s house. Plus the bunker below is to protect against the people while the court is treated above. Gotta go ASAP.
First black senator in MS ever elected by popular vote! (Though lynn fitch is still AG for another year, one battle after another.) Pleased to be an annual subscriber, Norm -- keep fighting the good fight.
I am totally pumped about Scott Colom's victory in Mississippi. After Cindy Hyde-Smith's premature victory speech -- “I blocked Scott Colom from being a judge, and you blocked him from being a U.S. Senator." -- I especially LOVED watching her have to eat her words.
Doesn't the proposed height of the Arch create a safety issue for planes taking off and landing at National Airport? (Still cant bring myself to use that other name.)
Thanks NORM great work🙏🙏🙌🏻🙌🏻
Every Saturday gives us new reasons to Thank Norm and Democracy Defenders! So thank you again, Norm et al. You WILL Prevail!
If only "he" had a fraction of the interest in repairing the FAA infrastructure and many more things, as he does in his vanity boondoggles.
So many things to tackle all at once. Watching the worst reality tv show last night with court jesters’ just awful explanations about how planes were brought to a halt, makes me so happy that Dems won everywhere. I want Trump and his regime to feel the walls closing in on them, bigly!
As others have said, Sean Duffy's plea for $50 billion dollars "to save our skies before the Thanksgiving holiday " (or words to that effect) is nothing short of a bare-faced attempt to extort Congress and the American people. "Give us the money we want or it won't be safe to fly." For one thing, this regime has a history of refusing to spend the money Congress has appropriated for the purpose it was appropriated for. How do we know this money won't be redirected to ICE or the ballroom or taking some 'enemy' to court or some future vanity boondoggle?
What's more important to me is that this president's priorities don't run to improving infrastructure or safety for the citizenry. Duffy's pleadings on behalf of his boss just aren't credible. This president's priorities, what he gives time and attention to and spends money on, are his vainglorious, frivolous vanity projects.
NOT ONE PENNY MORE! Not for anything, because he will only spend $$$ on things that benefit him and boost his ego.
Thank you for your response. As I sat watching the press conference, I thought and then said to my husband the same thing about the "appropriated" money. Duffy, Mullen and the other people in the Trump administration have no morals and sense of decency. They will cheat, lie or do whatever to glorify Trump and to enrich themselves.
I was very disappointed that none of the reporters at the press conference (more of a canonization of the president, really) challenged Duffy's statements. Neither did Jen Psaki in her comments later on MSNBC. Thankfully, not all voters are brain dead.
Actually, Monica Alba DID challenge Sean Duffy when he said how desperately they needed the $50 billion for upgrades... She pointed out that the president's party had control of everything for the past nearly two years and why wasn't that enough? His response? What network are you with? Then told her that obviously she'd never covered the 90 or more press conferences he'd held. It all gets so tiresome. Everybody singing Trump's praises. And a contract for airline upgrades was awarded to Duffy's son in law and that fired up this week... wonder if that had anything to do with the grounding...
There was one reporter who brought up the fact that the Republicans have had complete control of Congress for the past two years. Also, I watched Jen Psaki conversation with Peter Alexander. I thought their discussion addressed the numerous problems regarding Duffy's and Mullen's press conference. Psaki and Alexander had a great view from being a former press secretary and a White House correspondent.
You can add to the litany of Issues relating to Trump’s fitness for office his disappearance during yesterday’s grounding of all flights in the US. At a time when many Americans were concerned that the Country might be under attack and looking for information and guidance from the White House, Trump was missing in action. No address to the Nation. No written statement. Not even any tweets. Just a belated and disjointed phone call to Fox News. Was Trump medically, psychologically or cognitively incapable of fulfilling the duties of his office?
Steve, doubtless, the answers to your last, three-part question are 1. They'll never tell, 2. yes, and, 3. yes.
We are living in a timeline that combines the plots of "Being There" and "Weekend at Bernie's."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627
Great work, Norm. And thank you also for keeping us buoyed up with your updates. You are an inspiration! Thank you, thank you! 🙏🏻
Thanks Norm for all you are doing. Stay healthy because the next couple years are going to be a doozie. Strongmen do not go quietly, as Ruth Ben Ghiat stated. Neither will the Charles Koch/Leonard Leo Supreme Court. Throw in Thiel, Musk, the venture capitalist Silicon Valley tech bros and you've got a witches' brew of bad.
Trump & Co wreck the economy, balloon the deficit & transfer wealth to the wealthiest "patriots".
Time to end the Trump & Co gaslighting, propaganda & serial criminality. Is there a line past which Billions in Trump & Co corruption & fraud ceases to be tolerated? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PIkmjwGsQ
Stephen Miller acquiring more power is terrifying.
THE PERVASIVE ABUSE OF POWER AND CORRUPTION HAS CONVERTED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INTO A POLITICAL SEWER
On November 14, 2026, the NY Times reported that NextEra Energy of Juno Beach, Florida is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy of Richmond, VA that would result in the world’s largest retail electric utility . ( It had previously been reported that the Washington D.C. area would be the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. to support ai processing).
Needless to say, there is much local opposition to this colossal merger due to expected increases in utility costs.
During Trump’s 2 administrations there have been countless examples of how Trump has abused his power and authority to shake down or solicit personal financial benefits from corporations and other entities, individuals and even foreign countries for his benefit and the benefit of those rich oligarchs and political contributors seeking favors, licenses, exemptions, government contracts and other government benefits that have now come with a price.
There are also reports galore of how Trump has personally enriched himself and his family through the abuses of his office in the hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars.
The nature and extent of the corruption within this Republican administration comes as no surprise to anyone. As a matter of fact, the exit polls on November 3rd revealed that corruption was the most important issue among the electorate.
Getting back to the NY Times report that Next Era Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy, the Times reported that NextEra “was the only U.S. power company listed as a donor to the construction of the White House ballroom”. Are we so dumb as to believe that NextEra expected nothing in return or that Trump would not be expected to return the favor? This payment was recognized by both as a “quid pro quo” ( something for something) and now it’s payback time for Trump to intervene on behalf of NextEra.
When the new Congress convenes, in January their first order of business should be to conduct investigations to identify how the President and those riding on his coattails abused their positions for personal or political gain and to draft legislation to reveal and prevent such abuses in the future.
Having served as a federal prosecutor, I believe that a large portion of the abuses that amount to criminal misconduct could be federally prosecuted under the federal RICO legislation, embodied in Title 18, US Code Section 1961 et seq. The prosecutions would allege that they committed specified crimes in furtherance of running the administration or their departments as a criminal enterprise. Given the DOJ’s complicity in some of that conduct, however, it would be necessary to defer such prosecutions until Trump and the other perpetrators have left office.
Certainly, we all know that Trump’s stooges on the Supreme Court have shrouded him in almost total immunity from federal prosecution and that, just before ignominiously leaving office in January, 2029, it is expected that he will pardon his accomplices and co-conspirators for their federal crimes.
However, what they may not be aware of is that the federal RICO statute can be used by the Civil Division of the next Democratic administration’s DOJ to sue the perpetrators to claw back their ill-begotten gains. Presidential pardons are no defense to such suits.
YIKES!! check out this new photo of the White House new ballroom construction:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pictured-trump-gargantuan-ballroom-dwarfs-222534444.html
Tear it down!!
Beyond outrageous! This is a big FU to the people’s house. Plus the bunker below is to protect against the people while the court is treated above. Gotta go ASAP.
My main Saturday read - thank you, Norm!
First black senator in MS ever elected by popular vote! (Though lynn fitch is still AG for another year, one battle after another.) Pleased to be an annual subscriber, Norm -- keep fighting the good fight.
Thank you Norm for preserving democracy in Mississippi and making it happen! We don’t have near enough democracy fighters.
I am totally pumped about Scott Colom's victory in Mississippi. After Cindy Hyde-Smith's premature victory speech -- “I blocked Scott Colom from being a judge, and you blocked him from being a U.S. Senator." -- I especially LOVED watching her have to eat her words.
Thank you, Contrarians, for your amazing and steadfast help in these dark times. We owe you our democracy.
Doesn't the proposed height of the Arch create a safety issue for planes taking off and landing at National Airport? (Still cant bring myself to use that other name.)