Will anyone be standing up to Trump at Davos this week? That would be something and historic. When Trump speakes there, the rest if yhe participants should turn their backs or walk out. Trump is already punishing them or planning to. They have nothing to lose.
I wrote an SOS message to the WE Forum asking that they protect the world’s democracies and our environment because our president is unwell and our government is not protecting our Constitutional rights. It’s not much, but I hope it communicates that I am not sanctioning his chaos.
I trust his 'speech will be recorded and disseminated widely... I can only imagine the insane ramblings, confabulation, and word salad this demented madman will spew. We are having to endure this chaos because the rethuglicans are getting the social rewrite of America that they have long sought. It doesn't matter to them that it comes with the basic destruction of the American Republic.
Most of the European leaders still operate very much the way the Democrats do here at home: loathing what Donald is doing, frightened of what the impact will be, they keep telling each other that they have to play along with him, that they don't dare get out too far ahead of their skis.
Their economic and military destinies are still interwoven with ours to an extent that gives Donald and his cadres massive and destructive leverage, but the Europeans also have cards to play (among them some powerful economic cards): yet they refuse to play them, fearing the risk is too great, believing, Schumer style, that perhaps this is just a "pendulum swing," that if they just placate Donald and wait him out, things will get back to normal.
I do blame the Democrats to the extent that they have failed to speak out clearly, incisively, with one voice against the abuses of the regime. Even men and women who are not in a position to push through legislation are still in a position to use the bully pulpit, to represent the people and the constitution. Instead, Democrats retreat into caution; and some of the old guard, most notoriously Schumer, behave as though somehow this is still the 1990s and these little differences with the Republicans can be worked out in a friendly manner, over drinks.
You are absolutely correct. Shame, shame on the Democrats! They are mealy mouth sissies. Dump Carville and get some new advisors. This is a new and dangerous era we are in. It cannot be politics as usual! Thanks to the few who constantly speak up!!
England is particularly galling in its limp response to Trump. Apparently they have already forgotten Neville Chamberlin and how his appeasement policy worked out.
They have to be due to the continued economic fallout due to Brexit. Starmer has the backing of his cabinet because they know this, though this path, if sustained, will further push the UK towards reconciliation with the EU. Remember, Starmer and Labour face polling of a majority favoring the Reform Party (Farage and his lying gang).
Uh, you are aware that the US military, with its nuclear arsenal is the strongest in the world currently - and Trump is (terrifyingly) still calling the shots with it? The Europeans are working to break their economic ties with the US. They're creating trade agreements with Canada & South American countries.
One thing Trump understands is greed-money. In Davos, the ultra rich need to remind the “Emperor,” you exist because of us. We exist because of the world order. Persist and we will remedy it in way you will not like.
Oh yeah, I forgot about THOSE guys ! What are they called ? The triumverate or something. Don't they meet in the woods every year and declare everything ??
you may be thinking of the "trilateral commission", which was the international bogeyman of some conspiracy thinkers until it was replaced by the whole World Economic Forum (sometimes aided and abetted by George Soros.)
Check Gavin Newsom's masterful comments. He is standing up to him, telling the Europeans they are being played, and best of all, telling them that WE are embarrassed by him. (A bit of understatement there.)
Yes. Check out Carney’s speech. (I just realized this piece and your comment are from yesterday, predating Carney’s speech. I suppose you HAVE seen it by now. 🙃)
That is clearly the right thing to do. But there seems to be a new directive that Repubs CANNOT talk to any Dems. Ever. I guess that fear of getting an angry phone call from the Mad King is more scary than the imminent destruction of the country they took an oath to protect.
If billionaires (any of them - I don't stick to one side of the political "aisle") really cared about the people on this planet, they wouldn't BE billionaires. They would certainly still have millions, but they wouldn't be billionaires because they'd be using that money everyday for the betterment of humankind.
Better that they should mind their voters. At this point, angry constituents who have been ignored and ill-served are more of a threat to the cushy positions than Trump.
Yeah, that’s the sucky choice isn’t it? A mad king, or a sane but completely Machiavellian king. UGH. the devil‘s choice to be certain and if you impeach Vance, you currently have… Mike Johnson! Double ugh.
I haven’t read anything that suggests that either Vance or Johnson wouldn’t simply take Trump‘s place, and keep all the cabinet and senior advisors like Miller and Vought in place to continue their good work, just under new management.
True, but I wonder if the Dems couldn't cut a deal with Vance - a 2026 mutiny if you will - contingent on dumping some/all of the cabinet. How hungry is Vance?
I think if such an agreement resulted in any of the cabinet, or any of the senior White House staff such as Wiles and Miller and Vought being retained, would result in a democratic base revolt.
"Continue their good work"? Surely you jest. There must be a way to get rid of all three. Vance doesn't have the threat power of Trump, and possibly not as much of the cult support.
I am sorry, but I find these constant calls for impeachment at this point in time utterly useless. Everyone knows the fascists will never do any such thing in this non-existent current congress - and the Democrats simply don't have the votes.
The time for these calls for impeachment would be in early 2027, IF the Democrats take the house AND the senate. The senate with at least 60 votes. Since McConnell was afraid of the convicted felon last time, does anyone really think Thune would get his side to convict, if the Democrats have less than 60 votes in the senate?
Are Republicans ever going to pick country over party? Trump is destroying America from within. Xi and Putin need not fire one shot. As far as I am concerned they are traiters to America and need to be removed.
No they aren't. They're picking self-gratification over everything else like their master in the WH. The R party is functionally extinct. In its place in the MAGA Pary which is supported by the MAGA Voodoo Cult.
I remember it well. Our teachers warned us to be vigilant, lest we end up like Russia - with secret police knocking down doors, neighbors informing on neighbors, children informing on parents, and no rights for the ordinary citizen.
Nikita didn't realize that they wouldn't really have to bury us - we'd pick up a shovel and do it ourselves.
Well I agree they should be removed alright, but I don't believe merely incarceration is enough. I think there's enough evidence of treason for many of these criminals. What is the penalty for treason against our government?
At this point I can only hope that Republicans in Congress...every single one of them...suffer into eternity for the destruction they've caused of this once great nation. Yeah, even so-called moderate ones, for their silence, and votes (in spite of their rhetoric). This "great again" has destroyed what made us great.
McConnell was a chief engineer of our jeopardy, Ukraine’s continuing jeopardy, and our national shame. Now we have Trump’s $1 billion pay-to-play NATO replacement—the Board of Peace—run by Trump and to include Putin, Orban, Lukashenko, and Milei. Our very own axis of evil. I lay the blame squarely on Citizens’ United, the Heritage Foundation, and McConnell.
100% agree with you! And the cherry on top? Robert’s court stating a president can’t be held responsible for what he does while in office…. Stupidest decision I ever heard that will have long ranging consequences for the presidency, I think. If we don’t stop electing unqualified people!
Not exactly “while” he’s in office, but mot for anything connected with his duties as president. How that plays out with his in-our-face graft is a foregone conclusion, however.
If it were only their supporters who suffered, I wouldn't mind. But he's leading a government that is hurting us across the board and enriching himself and his cronies.
If that isn't disgraceful what is? Trump has bent and twisted the emoluments clause and the Hatch Act.
In my lifetime, there were presidents who left office with little more than a modest home to look forward to, and often only a personal car to take them there (Truman, Eisenhower).
At Davos. NYT Dealbook...some C.E.O.s openly questioned the president, using words like “wild” and “bizarre.” Yet many of them are planning to attend a reception in his honor, with some even joking about the best way to praise him in person. “Tread lightly,” one C.E.O. said. Contrast that with a number of international politicians wringing their hands over the growing tensions about Greenland.
Also on attendees’ minds: The Supreme Court could finally rule on the legality of some of Trump’s biggest tariffs as soon as today.
The Supreme Court's conservative members, with the exception of Thomas and Alito, are hoping that Congress will take back its tariff power so that they do not have to rule on it. Republicans who control Congress, however, want the Supreme Court to take the heat. It's a game of chicken.
Maybe the SC will hold that the tariffs are illegal. suppose the president then issues an EO removing the offending justices or cuttig their salaries or security. I wonder how they'd feel then about the immunity they've bestowed on him.
Our slimebag of a Chief Justice will find a way to cut the baby in half, and the dictator will get to keep his criminal tariffs while being admonished that he shoudn’t have imposed them. That’s how this pathetic excuse for an impartial court works these days
Greenlanders have redefined MAGA - Make America Go Away. I will never be ashamed to identify as American, but I will go to my grave furious at those who destroyed it.
Why is the Congress (members that we elected) so reticent to impeach him? He's no longer competent, if we can believe the media and the news reporting, anhe has access to way too much power. He's a real and present danger to us all.
Power for what, I wonder. And also, in the backs of their brains, I hope they take the time to appreciate that their wealth, power, election to office, strong military, are all because of the efforts of generations of Americans that came before them. Supporting a wrecking ball is an odd way of saying "Thank you".
Until the 40% of Americans who still worship the WH Crime Boss change their minds, the Toadies will not act. Unless the MAGA Senators & Representative believe that their political careers will be gutted they will continue to accept the Trump terrorism as they have so far. The semi-conscious low-information voters who elected the monster must be awakened and fear him. Until then nothing will change and democracy in the US will die.
If all the disruption that Trump is causing among our NATO allies doesn't awaken people to the realization that he is a Russian "asset," nothing ever will. Putin must be over-joyed by how well his puppet is doing his dirty work.
The Republican Party does not deserve to exist and like bygone failed parties such as the Federalists and Whigs must be discarded to the wastebin of history and replaced with a principled party that unquestionably supports our democratic constitutional republic.
Sad to say, there seems to be no movement in this direction yet. It should have started, at least, with the start of this administration. What we got was no guts and no glory, only corruption, power, and profit.
I agree Steve 218. I am a big proponent of getting back to releasing the Epstein files, now and unredacted. It seems like trumps actions keep getting more and more extreme with every new episode he creates. That leads me to believe he's really running from something that's behind him trying to make sure his past isn't going to catch up with him. The Epstein files? I don't know. Pam Bondi was given until December 19, 2025 to release all of the files. That's the law. She's broken it. Bondi is treating this like it was some suggestion by a passerby on the streets somewhere. My suggestion is to force her to release them unredacted. That suggestion gets met with not just a little concern for those who would be hurt by that action. meanwhile the rabid animal occupying the oval office is over the edge. I know I don't know where to go with this, but I really hate sitting here just watching it all unfold because a few republicans are too God damned chicken shit to do what's right.
Trump may well be running from himself. He's fearful that he's losing it - physically and mentally. An animal basted in fear will strike out, which is clearly what he's doing.
Bondi has indeed broken the law, first by redacting more than just victims' names and second by not releasing them as ordered. The problem with that is, who is going to enforce the order?
Just yesterday I read that in one of the MANY lawsuits by Epstein victims against TeamTrump they formally requested the court appoint a Special Master to review the docs and release them IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW.
It's a great move and it might actually work. The courts have the power to demand someone else, someone more trusted, take over the review and release process. Especially when the DOJ has proven themselves incapable of meeting their legal obligation here. Let's hope it works.
Back when Paul Ryan was still speaker of the House, a rumor based on an overheard conversation made the rounds that Republican members of Congress had received (and hidden) so-called "campaign donations" from the Russians. Given the behavior of Congress now, it wouldn't surprise me if in fact that was the case.
I remember that too. Around that time a large contingent of republicans spent the 4th of July in Russia. They were probably laying the groundwork for what has transpired: the installation of Felon 47 as president.
On PBS Newshour last night, there was a segment on why Congress has given up the power of the purse. Ryan Zinke, former Trump cabinet member and current Congressman from Montana, explained that the “President is within his constitutional right to make sure we don’t have fraud, waste, and abuse.” When the interviewer, Lisa Desjardins, reminded Zinke that Trump had eliminated entire agencies “like USAID”, Zinke went right back to his canned response that Trump has a right to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. He gave this line 3 times in a less than 1 minute interview.
These are the kind of idiots and boot lickers we have “running” Congress. Meanwhile, Trump robs most Americans blind by giving tax cuts to the rich thereby blowing up the deficit, running up the cost of goods with tariffs, selling pardons, negotiating with foreign governments for the enrichment of his family…need I add more evidence of Trump’s waste, fraud and abuse!!! Wow, how stupid do these republicans think we are???
The point missed here is, why does the PBS Newshour actually feel the need to give free time to the authoritarian regime? This has been a practice followed ever since Woodward took over, and their behavior was complicit in getting Trump elected! PBS mainly has an older audience, allowing the traitors airtime to present propaganda, which is supported by the legacy media, allowing questions of truth to be confusing.
This program, which was supported by taxpayer funds, regularly had, and still has, spokespeople from the Heritage Foundation commenting on issues that are part of their manifesto. Can anyone imagine, after Hitler was gone, Germany allowing his supporters airtime to discuss their Manifesto and provide propaganda supporting the treason? We did the same thing in allowing the Confederates in the South to erect statues, and depriving Black Americans from education and voting until the 60's! Now, in 2026, we have them back, in full glory, working to resegregate our country!
Somehow, we need to end this pseudo liberalism that seems to infiltrate our politics, and in today's arena, our loss of democracy, by speaking out against such dull-minded behavior! There is no "Media Balance" when you allow the dictators' people an opportunity to argue their lies and policies opposite either anti-dictators or even pseudo journalists, as though their argument had merit!
Giving Zinke, or The Heritage Foundation, or any other person who was, and /or remains a supporter of the overthrow of our Democracy, free air time to reinforce their argument by being highlighted on a network that should now be radically opposing them, is tantamount to treason!
I agree that the PBS News Hour has been slipping for some time. I stopped watching it last year. However, the new weekend segments, "Horizons," with William Brangham and "Compass Points" with Nick Schifrin are worth watching.
Sorry Bill, that wasn’t my take away from the piece and I only quoted from the Zinke portion of the 7 min piece which clearly showed just how deluded and dishonest the Trump crowd is. Thank goodness for PBS and NPR who continue to expose the insanity of Trump and MAGA republicans. You won’t see that on NBC, ABC, or even MSNBC, much less Fox!! Now I certainly see your point that “free air time” for right wing nut jobs (aka Trump whores), but if viewers are not intelligent enough to know how absurd it is to rely on Trump to stop waste,fraud, and abuse after his sale of pardons to drug dealers and criminals, then they are a lost cause. As George Washington said in his farewell address, you have to have an educated voter pool to protect the republic!!
With McConnell coming to the end of his career, he could decide that doing right by the country will be his final gift. No need to mention his stacking of the Supreme Court with MAGA zealots or wimping out on the 2nd Impeachment because he hoped to turn it over to his partisan Supreme Court.
No now is the time to see if he'll try to do what's right. Try to move heaven and earth to keep us in NATO. Lend his gravitas to removing some of his party's truly abominable choices before it's too late: BONDI, Noem, Hegseth, Pulte, Homan, and Gabbard come to mind. He could lean in to save our country. He's got no more political mountains to climb.
I have no hope for him. He sometimes says the right things but he just can't find the spine to vote against his party, even though he knows that the leader of his party is insane.
He will begin to respect our allies only if they show strength when dealing with him. So far they fawn, they flatter, they placate and appease his monstrous, maniacal behavior. When will they ever learn...
I suspect the president knows/understands nothing of this at all. And those around him who do, are relying on the feckless diplomacy of the Europeans to continue. I hope you're right that the Europeans will say or do something to show their power.
But would they dump it? Leverage is only useful if the potential use of it is feasible. I'm not sure it is - not by the EU, not by anyone. Futile attempts at reasoning, diplomacy, "a carrot and stick", will continue when for Trump it's very simple: "I WANT it, I GET it."
Macron Has introduced a resolution to the EU to invoke their so-called bazooka economic option. I hope they do so; the resulting chaos in the US bond market might be the only thing that causes a strong enough domestic reaction to stop Trump.
Forget the 25th Amendment. That is conferred upon an unfit president by his cabinet, and as a hand-picked bunch of loyalist lackeys, it is not going to happen. Impeachment is on the table if Congress had the guts and will to take up and face our problem.
Will anyone be standing up to Trump at Davos this week? That would be something and historic. When Trump speakes there, the rest if yhe participants should turn their backs or walk out. Trump is already punishing them or planning to. They have nothing to lose.
I wrote an SOS message to the WE Forum asking that they protect the world’s democracies and our environment because our president is unwell and our government is not protecting our Constitutional rights. It’s not much, but I hope it communicates that I am not sanctioning his chaos.
I trust his 'speech will be recorded and disseminated widely... I can only imagine the insane ramblings, confabulation, and word salad this demented madman will spew. We are having to endure this chaos because the rethuglicans are getting the social rewrite of America that they have long sought. It doesn't matter to them that it comes with the basic destruction of the American Republic.
What you have said is exactly right. It's about the social rewrite.
Rethuglicans? Gotta like that one !
Love "rethuglicans".
Most of the European leaders still operate very much the way the Democrats do here at home: loathing what Donald is doing, frightened of what the impact will be, they keep telling each other that they have to play along with him, that they don't dare get out too far ahead of their skis.
Their economic and military destinies are still interwoven with ours to an extent that gives Donald and his cadres massive and destructive leverage, but the Europeans also have cards to play (among them some powerful economic cards): yet they refuse to play them, fearing the risk is too great, believing, Schumer style, that perhaps this is just a "pendulum swing," that if they just placate Donald and wait him out, things will get back to normal.
Stop blaming the Democrats. Republicans control Congress. Republicans could join with Democrats to stop Trump but they do not.
I do blame the Democrats to the extent that they have failed to speak out clearly, incisively, with one voice against the abuses of the regime. Even men and women who are not in a position to push through legislation are still in a position to use the bully pulpit, to represent the people and the constitution. Instead, Democrats retreat into caution; and some of the old guard, most notoriously Schumer, behave as though somehow this is still the 1990s and these little differences with the Republicans can be worked out in a friendly manner, over drinks.
I do agree with you, although I think most Democrats are in shock.
Trump keeps throwing more issues at us daily. They come so fast
that we are still reeling from whatever was the last thing. It is a Shock
and Awe attack.
Yes, many people think we can just wait this out, but
experts are telling us how behind we are getting in science, and fighting
for a cure for cancer. We are falling behind of our future selves. Our
enemies are laughing at what is happening here, as Trump continues
his War on Americans.
He doesn't realie he is weakening the American work force. That is
what we are.
I laugh when I think of his simplistic thinking. He, in my opinion
giving tax breaks to the rich because he believes they will replace the
industries we lost as we globalized our markets.
The rich are rich because they invest their money wisely. They are not
the ones who will create the next economy. That is the job and the calling
of the American middle class, and our immigrant populations who come
here to create wealth of their own.
Too bad that DJT can't see beyond
his emotional needs for adulation from anyone around him.
You are absolutely correct. Shame, shame on the Democrats! They are mealy mouth sissies. Dump Carville and get some new advisors. This is a new and dangerous era we are in. It cannot be politics as usual! Thanks to the few who constantly speak up!!
Appeasement gets no respect, is considered weakness, and only encourages more platitudes and concessions. In short, it does not work.
England is particularly galling in its limp response to Trump. Apparently they have already forgotten Neville Chamberlin and how his appeasement policy worked out.
Paulette, one more point: WE are the ones with the limp response. WHY aren't we in the streets, a general strike, a march on Washington?
They have to be due to the continued economic fallout due to Brexit. Starmer has the backing of his cabinet because they know this, though this path, if sustained, will further push the UK towards reconciliation with the EU. Remember, Starmer and Labour face polling of a majority favoring the Reform Party (Farage and his lying gang).
Uh, you are aware that the US military, with its nuclear arsenal is the strongest in the world currently - and Trump is (terrifyingly) still calling the shots with it? The Europeans are working to break their economic ties with the US. They're creating trade agreements with Canada & South American countries.
One thing Trump understands is greed-money. In Davos, the ultra rich need to remind the “Emperor,” you exist because of us. We exist because of the world order. Persist and we will remedy it in way you will not like.
Oh yeah, I forgot about THOSE guys ! What are they called ? The triumverate or something. Don't they meet in the woods every year and declare everything ??
you may be thinking of the "trilateral commission", which was the international bogeyman of some conspiracy thinkers until it was replaced by the whole World Economic Forum (sometimes aided and abetted by George Soros.)
yes,thanks
He might just fall asleep.
he will or they will !
HAHAHA
Check Gavin Newsom's masterful comments. He is standing up to him, telling the Europeans they are being played, and best of all, telling them that WE are embarrassed by him. (A bit of understatement there.)
Yes. Check out Carney’s speech. (I just realized this piece and your comment are from yesterday, predating Carney’s speech. I suppose you HAVE seen it by now. 🙃)
C’mon, Congress, impeach him. Or at least declare him impaired mentally!
That is clearly the right thing to do. But there seems to be a new directive that Repubs CANNOT talk to any Dems. Ever. I guess that fear of getting an angry phone call from the Mad King is more scary than the imminent destruction of the country they took an oath to protect.
That’s the part that is so incomprehensible. Same with billionaires.
If billionaires (any of them - I don't stick to one side of the political "aisle") really cared about the people on this planet, they wouldn't BE billionaires. They would certainly still have millions, but they wouldn't be billionaires because they'd be using that money everyday for the betterment of humankind.
Oh my, Ellie. What have you been smoking???
It is, has been, and will probably remain, my opinion, for as long as I have left. I don't demand that anyone agree with me.
Better that they should mind their voters. At this point, angry constituents who have been ignored and ill-served are more of a threat to the cushy positions than Trump.
hope so
They could hang up the phone.
Isn’t that the truth!!!
Article 25 was written for this exact moment!
The 25th depends on Trump‘s handpicked vice president and handpicked cabinet to invoke it. The odds of that are vanishingly small.
Aye, right you are!
But… Vance.
Yeah, that’s the sucky choice isn’t it? A mad king, or a sane but completely Machiavellian king. UGH. the devil‘s choice to be certain and if you impeach Vance, you currently have… Mike Johnson! Double ugh.
they don't have the dumb people appeal that hump does
Better to be rid of Trump, Miller, and Vought, the puppetmasters who feed Trump more hate and Project 2025 provisions.
This is so very true. Miller and Vought prepared Trump impeccably, to destroy
the constitution and create a 1930s country with a King. You have to admire
how they were able to pick apart our goverment and know what departments
to emasculate. Trump just follows their orders and fires anyone who might
object to their plan. Very Machiavellian!
I haven’t read anything that suggests that either Vance or Johnson wouldn’t simply take Trump‘s place, and keep all the cabinet and senior advisors like Miller and Vought in place to continue their good work, just under new management.
true, but the repubs won't be afraid of them
True, but I wonder if the Dems couldn't cut a deal with Vance - a 2026 mutiny if you will - contingent on dumping some/all of the cabinet. How hungry is Vance?
I think if such an agreement resulted in any of the cabinet, or any of the senior White House staff such as Wiles and Miller and Vought being retained, would result in a democratic base revolt.
"Continue their good work"? Surely you jest. There must be a way to get rid of all three. Vance doesn't have the threat power of Trump, and possibly not as much of the cult support.
Johnson would just be totally unacceptable.
Oh yes, very much in jest! I should’ve put that part in quotes.
I am sure everyone is thinking that and waiting for his impeachment.
The problem there is we have to get our ducks in a row to succeed.
Remember the last time we tried to impeach him, Chief Justice Roberts
held a trail with NO WITNESSES. How that was allowed to happen is
just awful. We may just have to find some wonderful ways to protest
the Trumpization of America.
I still like a day of buying nothing, to worry him.
Maybe a National Day of Mourning for the Constitution?
What if we all wear black mourning bands on our arms, in honor of the
loss of Freedom of Speach.
I am sorry, but I find these constant calls for impeachment at this point in time utterly useless. Everyone knows the fascists will never do any such thing in this non-existent current congress - and the Democrats simply don't have the votes.
The time for these calls for impeachment would be in early 2027, IF the Democrats take the house AND the senate. The senate with at least 60 votes. Since McConnell was afraid of the convicted felon last time, does anyone really think Thune would get his side to convict, if the Democrats have less than 60 votes in the senate?
We are just amateurs trying to keep hope alive so we can fight another day!
Are Republicans ever going to pick country over party? Trump is destroying America from within. Xi and Putin need not fire one shot. As far as I am concerned they are traiters to America and need to be removed.
No they aren't. They're picking self-gratification over everything else like their master in the WH. The R party is functionally extinct. In its place in the MAGA Pary which is supported by the MAGA Voodoo Cult.
bad doo doo WOULD explain a lot...
Putin and maybe our own Gabbard are cheering the dissolution of NATO.
Nikita, wherever he is, is laughing.
He did say, “we will bury you.” This has been way too easy
I remember it well. Our teachers warned us to be vigilant, lest we end up like Russia - with secret police knocking down doors, neighbors informing on neighbors, children informing on parents, and no rights for the ordinary citizen.
Nikita didn't realize that they wouldn't really have to bury us - we'd pick up a shovel and do it ourselves.
Yes! I was a child, and it sent chills up my spine.
It's worse than that. Legislators have chosen president over party, country, and Constitution!
Don’t forget the majority on the not-so Supreme Court who have also chosen their side. Which has also given “legal” cover to the actions in progress.
The disolution of the JAG Corps and its restoration with lawyers who are willing to determine any military action to be legal is unnerving as well.
Totally agree. Traitors and pedophile protectors.
Trumpstein - - the horror show that never closes
Well I agree they should be removed alright, but I don't believe merely incarceration is enough. I think there's enough evidence of treason for many of these criminals. What is the penalty for treason against our government?
Oh, I like the idea of Treason. That might be the winning ticket if we can pursue it.
No. They will continue to stick to Power, Party, and Pelf. It's been that way for certain, since President Obama was elected.
At this point I can only hope that Republicans in Congress...every single one of them...suffer into eternity for the destruction they've caused of this once great nation. Yeah, even so-called moderate ones, for their silence, and votes (in spite of their rhetoric). This "great again" has destroyed what made us great.
McConnell was a chief engineer of our jeopardy, Ukraine’s continuing jeopardy, and our national shame. Now we have Trump’s $1 billion pay-to-play NATO replacement—the Board of Peace—run by Trump and to include Putin, Orban, Lukashenko, and Milei. Our very own axis of evil. I lay the blame squarely on Citizens’ United, the Heritage Foundation, and McConnell.
100% agree with you! And the cherry on top? Robert’s court stating a president can’t be held responsible for what he does while in office…. Stupidest decision I ever heard that will have long ranging consequences for the presidency, I think. If we don’t stop electing unqualified people!
We should write into the constitution that an IQ test be given. It should include
economics, a class DJT obvioiusly failed. And I did hear a comment by one of
DJT's teachers at the Wharton School of Economics, that DJT was his worse
student.
Not exactly “while” he’s in office, but mot for anything connected with his duties as president. How that plays out with his in-our-face graft is a foregone conclusion, however.
Hell is too nice a place for Moscow Mitch McConnell.
Phyllis Schlafly is saving him a seat.
Which brings up the Supreme Court who voted for Citizen's United and gave
corporations two votes. Once for the person represented by the corporation,
and a second vote for that person their self.
You're right. I wonder if that why Republicans love to vote in several different locations--they're all CEOs! Who knew?
If it were only their supporters who suffered, I wouldn't mind. But he's leading a government that is hurting us across the board and enriching himself and his cronies.
See NYT today.
"All told, Mr. Trump has profited from
his return to the presidency by an
amount of money equal to 16,822 times
the median U.S. household income."
If that isn't disgraceful what is? Trump has bent and twisted the emoluments clause and the Hatch Act.
In my lifetime, there were presidents who left office with little more than a modest home to look forward to, and often only a personal car to take them there (Truman, Eisenhower).
At Davos. NYT Dealbook...some C.E.O.s openly questioned the president, using words like “wild” and “bizarre.” Yet many of them are planning to attend a reception in his honor, with some even joking about the best way to praise him in person. “Tread lightly,” one C.E.O. said. Contrast that with a number of international politicians wringing their hands over the growing tensions about Greenland.
Also on attendees’ minds: The Supreme Court could finally rule on the legality of some of Trump’s biggest tariffs as soon as today.
The Supreme Court's conservative members, with the exception of Thomas and Alito, are hoping that Congress will take back its tariff power so that they do not have to rule on it. Republicans who control Congress, however, want the Supreme Court to take the heat. It's a game of chicken.
The man deserves no praise, and should be tread upon, as he would surely do unto them. Appeasement does not work.
Maybe the SC will hold that the tariffs are illegal. suppose the president then issues an EO removing the offending justices or cuttig their salaries or security. I wonder how they'd feel then about the immunity they've bestowed on him.
Our slimebag of a Chief Justice will find a way to cut the baby in half, and the dictator will get to keep his criminal tariffs while being admonished that he shoudn’t have imposed them. That’s how this pathetic excuse for an impartial court works these days
He's not just hurting Americans. He's hurting everyone on earth!
he does hae scary power and kills everything he is around
Greenlanders have redefined MAGA - Make America Go Away. I will never be ashamed to identify as American, but I will go to my grave furious at those who destroyed it.
I am totally ashamed.
I love the "new" designation. I wish we could make this disastrous administration go away.
Why is the Congress (members that we elected) so reticent to impeach him? He's no longer competent, if we can believe the media and the news reporting, anhe has access to way too much power. He's a real and present danger to us all.
It boils down to money and, I guess, to personal safety. The second I can understand. The first is the poison coursing through our political system.
It is also about the power they derive from Trump to stay in office.
Power for what, I wonder. And also, in the backs of their brains, I hope they take the time to appreciate that their wealth, power, election to office, strong military, are all because of the efforts of generations of Americans that came before them. Supporting a wrecking ball is an odd way of saying "Thank you".
Cowardice in the face of a domestic terrorist Executive Branch is shameful.
Until the 40% of Americans who still worship the WH Crime Boss change their minds, the Toadies will not act. Unless the MAGA Senators & Representative believe that their political careers will be gutted they will continue to accept the Trump terrorism as they have so far. The semi-conscious low-information voters who elected the monster must be awakened and fear him. Until then nothing will change and democracy in the US will die.
Exactly right. Trump succeeds only because of his spineless cowardly MAGA and GOP supporters in Congress.
It's already dead. We're living in a failed nation, run by the Trump Crime Syndicate.
I refuse to give up on the United States.
Decent US citizens need to learn political CPR.
Ashamed Yes, horrified, yes, terrified, yes. Who would have thought that this is what our country has come to….
If all the disruption that Trump is causing among our NATO allies doesn't awaken people to the realization that he is a Russian "asset," nothing ever will. Putin must be over-joyed by how well his puppet is doing his dirty work.
The Republican Party does not deserve to exist and like bygone failed parties such as the Federalists and Whigs must be discarded to the wastebin of history and replaced with a principled party that unquestionably supports our democratic constitutional republic.
Sad to say, there seems to be no movement in this direction yet. It should have started, at least, with the start of this administration. What we got was no guts and no glory, only corruption, power, and profit.
I agree Steve 218. I am a big proponent of getting back to releasing the Epstein files, now and unredacted. It seems like trumps actions keep getting more and more extreme with every new episode he creates. That leads me to believe he's really running from something that's behind him trying to make sure his past isn't going to catch up with him. The Epstein files? I don't know. Pam Bondi was given until December 19, 2025 to release all of the files. That's the law. She's broken it. Bondi is treating this like it was some suggestion by a passerby on the streets somewhere. My suggestion is to force her to release them unredacted. That suggestion gets met with not just a little concern for those who would be hurt by that action. meanwhile the rabid animal occupying the oval office is over the edge. I know I don't know where to go with this, but I really hate sitting here just watching it all unfold because a few republicans are too God damned chicken shit to do what's right.
Trump may well be running from himself. He's fearful that he's losing it - physically and mentally. An animal basted in fear will strike out, which is clearly what he's doing.
Bondi has indeed broken the law, first by redacting more than just victims' names and second by not releasing them as ordered. The problem with that is, who is going to enforce the order?
Just yesterday I read that in one of the MANY lawsuits by Epstein victims against TeamTrump they formally requested the court appoint a Special Master to review the docs and release them IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW.
It's a great move and it might actually work. The courts have the power to demand someone else, someone more trusted, take over the review and release process. Especially when the DOJ has proven themselves incapable of meeting their legal obligation here. Let's hope it works.
Thank you for that information. Like most of us I would never have guessed that we would ever be here.
Back when Paul Ryan was still speaker of the House, a rumor based on an overheard conversation made the rounds that Republican members of Congress had received (and hidden) so-called "campaign donations" from the Russians. Given the behavior of Congress now, it wouldn't surprise me if in fact that was the case.
I remember that too. Around that time a large contingent of republicans spent the 4th of July in Russia. They were probably laying the groundwork for what has transpired: the installation of Felon 47 as president.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664156/gop-senators-spend-july-4-in-moscow
On PBS Newshour last night, there was a segment on why Congress has given up the power of the purse. Ryan Zinke, former Trump cabinet member and current Congressman from Montana, explained that the “President is within his constitutional right to make sure we don’t have fraud, waste, and abuse.” When the interviewer, Lisa Desjardins, reminded Zinke that Trump had eliminated entire agencies “like USAID”, Zinke went right back to his canned response that Trump has a right to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. He gave this line 3 times in a less than 1 minute interview.
These are the kind of idiots and boot lickers we have “running” Congress. Meanwhile, Trump robs most Americans blind by giving tax cuts to the rich thereby blowing up the deficit, running up the cost of goods with tariffs, selling pardons, negotiating with foreign governments for the enrichment of his family…need I add more evidence of Trump’s waste, fraud and abuse!!! Wow, how stupid do these republicans think we are???
The point missed here is, why does the PBS Newshour actually feel the need to give free time to the authoritarian regime? This has been a practice followed ever since Woodward took over, and their behavior was complicit in getting Trump elected! PBS mainly has an older audience, allowing the traitors airtime to present propaganda, which is supported by the legacy media, allowing questions of truth to be confusing.
This program, which was supported by taxpayer funds, regularly had, and still has, spokespeople from the Heritage Foundation commenting on issues that are part of their manifesto. Can anyone imagine, after Hitler was gone, Germany allowing his supporters airtime to discuss their Manifesto and provide propaganda supporting the treason? We did the same thing in allowing the Confederates in the South to erect statues, and depriving Black Americans from education and voting until the 60's! Now, in 2026, we have them back, in full glory, working to resegregate our country!
Somehow, we need to end this pseudo liberalism that seems to infiltrate our politics, and in today's arena, our loss of democracy, by speaking out against such dull-minded behavior! There is no "Media Balance" when you allow the dictators' people an opportunity to argue their lies and policies opposite either anti-dictators or even pseudo journalists, as though their argument had merit!
Giving Zinke, or The Heritage Foundation, or any other person who was, and /or remains a supporter of the overthrow of our Democracy, free air time to reinforce their argument by being highlighted on a network that should now be radically opposing them, is tantamount to treason!
Yet, we somehow don't get that!
I agree that the PBS News Hour has been slipping for some time. I stopped watching it last year. However, the new weekend segments, "Horizons," with William Brangham and "Compass Points" with Nick Schifrin are worth watching.
Sorry Bill, that wasn’t my take away from the piece and I only quoted from the Zinke portion of the 7 min piece which clearly showed just how deluded and dishonest the Trump crowd is. Thank goodness for PBS and NPR who continue to expose the insanity of Trump and MAGA republicans. You won’t see that on NBC, ABC, or even MSNBC, much less Fox!! Now I certainly see your point that “free air time” for right wing nut jobs (aka Trump whores), but if viewers are not intelligent enough to know how absurd it is to rely on Trump to stop waste,fraud, and abuse after his sale of pardons to drug dealers and criminals, then they are a lost cause. As George Washington said in his farewell address, you have to have an educated voter pool to protect the republic!!
With McConnell coming to the end of his career, he could decide that doing right by the country will be his final gift. No need to mention his stacking of the Supreme Court with MAGA zealots or wimping out on the 2nd Impeachment because he hoped to turn it over to his partisan Supreme Court.
No now is the time to see if he'll try to do what's right. Try to move heaven and earth to keep us in NATO. Lend his gravitas to removing some of his party's truly abominable choices before it's too late: BONDI, Noem, Hegseth, Pulte, Homan, and Gabbard come to mind. He could lean in to save our country. He's got no more political mountains to climb.
Don't hold your breath.
I have no hope for him. He sometimes says the right things but he just can't find the spine to vote against his party, even though he knows that the leader of his party is insane.
Don't expect miracles from this lame duck.
I know I’m ashamed. He has always been appalling but those enabling him are worse.
Well written, Jen!! Thank you!
He will begin to respect our allies only if they show strength when dealing with him. So far they fawn, they flatter, they placate and appease his monstrous, maniacal behavior. When will they ever learn...
Carney will speak to him at Davos. And I think the EU folks will remind him of how much US debt they hold and can dump at a moment's notice.
I suspect the president knows/understands nothing of this at all. And those around him who do, are relying on the feckless diplomacy of the Europeans to continue. I hope you're right that the Europeans will say or do something to show their power.
But would they dump it? Leverage is only useful if the potential use of it is feasible. I'm not sure it is - not by the EU, not by anyone. Futile attempts at reasoning, diplomacy, "a carrot and stick", will continue when for Trump it's very simple: "I WANT it, I GET it."
Macron Has introduced a resolution to the EU to invoke their so-called bazooka economic option. I hope they do so; the resulting chaos in the US bond market might be the only thing that causes a strong enough domestic reaction to stop Trump.
Rick Wilson, founder of The Lincoln Project, posted 'A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King' yesterday.
https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/a-declaration-of-independence-from
Resign, Amendment 25 or Impeach.
Forget the 25th Amendment. That is conferred upon an unfit president by his cabinet, and as a hand-picked bunch of loyalist lackeys, it is not going to happen. Impeachment is on the table if Congress had the guts and will to take up and face our problem.
This is an exceptional piece!