True statement, but I believe that the Felon47’s minions who bought the voting machine tabulators, and Elon Musk’s protege who invented a software program to allow remote manipulation of election data, are the reasons the our current occupant of the White House fraudulently won the 2024 Election.
Yes, I agree, Karen. Felon 47 could not seem to help himself from bragging! It was something like…Elon is very effective. He has the best computer skills, with vote-counting computers, and we won by a landslide in Pennsylvania. Thank you, Elon! Later, Elon stated on social media when they were fighting, that Trump would not have won, if not for him!
Not only is Trump a racist, misogynist, and idiot, but he just f@#king rude!
Has there been any president in America history who has talked to a Black, female journalist in the way Trump did, and has remained in office and supported by his party?
I will save for another rant the disgrace of his vanity projects overwhelming healthy benefits.
Today, I just want to understand how he can get away with such prejudice and misogyny.
How members of his party do not push open the door of his White House office and drag him off to jail, or someplace where his stink won’t infect the entire group?
Why can’t Republicans admit that Trump cares not for people of this country? Why have they allowed their membership to continue to support, excuse, and accept his grotesqueness?
You have pinpointed what has fueled my anger and disappointment over these past two years; that the complicity and corruption of Congress and the Supreme Court have consistently rocked both our democratic norms and laws to sleep every day and night of this administration. It is their lullaby that has enabled the Trump administration to lie softly in the arms of authoritarianism, safe in the notion that they are above every decent and true thing that our Constitution expects and demands of us.
One question from a reporter and Trump springs from his self-satisfied somnolence….”What?” He crisply thinks…”Someone DARES to question my trajectory of power, of beauty, of omniscience?” He then blurts out what he always does. He lowers the hammer on them. Boom! Take this!..boom…take THAT! I’LL teach you to question my escape from reality! And so it goes, each time reality tries to assert itself. It’s difficult to make a point that does not comport with his worldview and/or his ambitions.
The only way to combat this is to, exactly as you have said, Steven, renew and repair the systems that have frayed beyond recognition. We will have to win and fight for what we hope will be the winning results of this election, but I fear that winning will not be enough. In fact, I have resigned myself to that fact and realize that we must look beyond the results to find a way to make them viable. He’s going to throw the book at this vote. Let’s hope and pray that the millions of hearts and minds behind a majority vote to unseat Republicans who do not uphold our democracy will not be invisible. If they’re going to try to push all of us off the democratic cliff in November, so be it, but we as the ‘just majority’ must hold hands and jump together.
Since there IS strength in numbers, I suppose we should issue an engraved invitation to all Republicans to join our flyover away from authoritarianism toward some poinpointed destination where we all can thrive!
The fact we have to talk about people worshiping a statue of Trump shows the depth to which our country has sunk. This is dictator-level narcissism never before seen in a president. Couple this with the destruction of the White House and the rest of D.C. on his whims and we are no longer a country the world respects. For example, who can respect a country that celebrates its 250th birthday with a cage fight on the White House lawn.
As noted, this is only possible with the unabashed support of Republican legislators who are too cowardly to fulfill their oath to the Constitution and not to Trump. I'm old enough to have watched when Republicans had the guts and love for the country to tell Nixon to resign. Today's Republicans only want to get re-elected and are afraid of Trump's tweets.
Voting all of them out is the only hope to save our country.
Thanks for recalibrating Felon47’s narcissistic misogynistic political interactions with Rachel Scott by writing what REALLY HAPPENED, Steven. Your analysis is so “on point”!
“It remains critical to speak out about the need for an increasingly unhinged and dangerous Trump be removed from office and to support candidates who are committed to holding him and others in his regime accountable for their corrupt and criminal actions.
But the work this year and in the coming years also requires recognizing the failures of our political system and fixing a broken society that advances men and women who never should have been put in positions of power.”
I'm not sure how the mood and substance of the American electorate can be changed wholesale to prevent another trump from happening. Or for that matter, ensure Senate and House victory in November. While our standing in the world sinks to lower and lower levels, and domestically we are roiled by jacked up gas prices and soon food and other shortages, the folks who put trump in office are still alive and well and waiting for the next messiah to come along and make good on unworldly promises. They are not the ones we've been waiting for. Trump may have got us into this mess but it was the 49.9% who put him there. I dunno. Civic and history education? Financial literacy (the debt! the debt!). Healthy habits that include time outs from the algorithms and eating good-for-you food? Taxing the rich to help level up the social and economic playing field for all Americans? I'm flummoxed. All or none of these might wrench this country back from the cliff we are so clearly charging off of. Maybe the best we can do is to find just one more person--more if you are able--to convince that it isn't too late to save the great American Experiment. Maybe we can bring hope (and a pipe) to the fistfight while we are also busy stopping Republicans at every turn. In a deep, tragic world of hurt, we must act as if democracy depended on it.
My question is: why do the "press" continue to debase themselves and their bosses by even being in front of this despicable person?? He lives and breathes to call them names, disparage their presence, mock them like children. And yet their networks keep sending them and they keep going to this $#!+show. We KNOW every time it will be a flocking name calling show just for HIM. MSM, call off your reporters before they all die of humiliation and shame!
And they've lost credibility so why keep doing same thing over and over expecting a different result. Insanity - theirs and his! Networks don't care, and they've losing viewers in droves. Thx for clarification.
At the root of all of this is the Heritage Foundation. While the malfeasant regime currently in power continues to call "antifa" a terrorist organization, the real enemy is an actual organization that continues to support, influence and pursue anti-democratic principles that undermine the very foundation of our government and rule of law, the Constitution. The Heritage Foundation has infiltrated every branch of our government, including the Supreme Court, and, in my opinion, is the premier terrorist organization currently operating in our country.
He's doing all of this for 2 reasons: squirrel, as you mentioned. The others? Because he thinks he'll be loved. It doesn't work that way. He can't be loved if he can't love others. It will never undo the trauma from his childhood when he wasn't loved.
This in turn leads to questions about putin, xi, netanyahu, bolsanaro, thiel, miller, musk, vance, johnson, roberts, etc. What do they have on trump? What do they have on each other? Because it would be fascinating to know what putin has on all of them. It would be interesting to know how truly messed up all of their childhoods were. Yes, it almost always goes back to the most crucial ages of 0-5.
It is a disgrace that members of the press will only lob softball questions at Trump and then let him get away with evasive, nonsensical answers laced with personal insults. They could make a start by calling out his lies in real time. What a travesty of our once free press that they let him get away with any of this unchallenged. To learn how to do their jobs responsibly, our reporters need to watch their counterparts in the BBC questioning Keir Starmer and demanding relevant answers.
Our situation here has now blown through the bounds of absurdity. I mean, the guy is now waging war while building gold statues of himself. Why are we letting him any of this happen?
We have a Jekyll/Hyde thing going in this country, only it's not all one thing or all the other: there's plenty of middle ground between the two. Something like a third of those polled still approve of Trump's performance. What does that mean? How much do these people know about what Trump is up to? What do they want? I don't have a clue.
I do know that Trump didn't come out of nowhere, and that too many of us have been missing or dismissing the danger signs for decades.
Nixon's "southern strategy." The Reagan administration's creative use of white grievance to hand the country over to Big Money. What journalist Dana Milbank called "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party" under Gingri(n)ch et al. Clinton's gutting of the Glass-Steagall Act, further enabling Big Money to undermine and corrupt the electoral process. Bush II's appointment of Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court, followed shortly by conservative freakout about the election of a Black president, followed in turn by the Citizens United decision and the Tea Party election, both in 2010. (It's easy to forget that things were screwed up *before* Mitch McConnell orchestrated the packing of the Court with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.)
This sequence of events might not have made Trump inevitable, but it sure as hell made him possible, and the inescapable fact that he was re-elected in 2024 when we the people really, really should have known better . . . Well, I rest my case. There's something rotten in the state of the Union, and the rot has been rotting for -- what do you know?? -- 250 years. Guess it's finally time to deal with it for real.
if we win and get to Jan 20 2027 then we have a chance but that is 8 months away.. look what he has done in the last 8 months...he and his followers,cabinet, congress, judges & supremes are covered in blood...and it is real blood.. starvation, torture, murder, wars .....shame shame shame
As Mother's Day comes to a close, on the obligatory Sunday during which mothers and the sacrifices they make are honored on that one day, and not on the other 364 days of the year, once again we are subjected to the rantings of a horrific man.
In November 2025, Trump interrupted a question from Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey and said, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.” Critics described it as sexist and demeaning.
Some other notable remarks Trump has made about women over the years include:
Calling Rosie O’Donnell “a fat pig,” “a slob,” and “disgusting.”
Referring to Kim Kardashian as having a “fat ass.”
Calling Stormy Daniels “Horseface.”
Saying about Carly Fiorina during the 2016 primary: “Look at that face!”
Nicknaming former Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” after she gained weight.
Saying of journalist Megyn Kelly there was “blood coming out of her wherever.”
Calling women generally “dogs,” “slobs,” or “disgusting animals” in various interviews and tweets over the decades.
Saying of Hillary Clinton during a debate: “Such a nasty woman.”
Telling a female contestant on The Apprentice: “It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
Saying on the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape that celebrities can “grab ’em by the pussy.”
(and this, I am certain, accounts for only some of his vapid remarks referring to women. Talk about "Mommy issues.")
The lack of response or push-back from any of the male reporters present at these moments is also alarming. We are in an extremely dark tunnel groping for the light which is so far away as to be indiscernible. Another 176 days till the midterms. And people had better wake up and vote the entire cabal OUT.
We don’t have rulers in this country. We have representatives.
“We are our choices.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
We need to make better choices.
True statement, but I believe that the Felon47’s minions who bought the voting machine tabulators, and Elon Musk’s protege who invented a software program to allow remote manipulation of election data, are the reasons the our current occupant of the White House fraudulently won the 2024 Election.
Trump said as much on his first day back in the Oval Office. Said that Elon rigged the voting machines in PA.
We need to have representatives who are willing to pull out all of the stops to fight for our right to have free elections.
Yes, I agree, Karen. Felon 47 could not seem to help himself from bragging! It was something like…Elon is very effective. He has the best computer skills, with vote-counting computers, and we won by a landslide in Pennsylvania. Thank you, Elon! Later, Elon stated on social media when they were fighting, that Trump would not have won, if not for him!
Not only is Trump a racist, misogynist, and idiot, but he just f@#king rude!
Has there been any president in America history who has talked to a Black, female journalist in the way Trump did, and has remained in office and supported by his party?
I will save for another rant the disgrace of his vanity projects overwhelming healthy benefits.
Today, I just want to understand how he can get away with such prejudice and misogyny.
How members of his party do not push open the door of his White House office and drag him off to jail, or someplace where his stink won’t infect the entire group?
Why can’t Republicans admit that Trump cares not for people of this country? Why have they allowed their membership to continue to support, excuse, and accept his grotesqueness?
Shameful cowards. Every last one of them.
You have pinpointed what has fueled my anger and disappointment over these past two years; that the complicity and corruption of Congress and the Supreme Court have consistently rocked both our democratic norms and laws to sleep every day and night of this administration. It is their lullaby that has enabled the Trump administration to lie softly in the arms of authoritarianism, safe in the notion that they are above every decent and true thing that our Constitution expects and demands of us.
One question from a reporter and Trump springs from his self-satisfied somnolence….”What?” He crisply thinks…”Someone DARES to question my trajectory of power, of beauty, of omniscience?” He then blurts out what he always does. He lowers the hammer on them. Boom! Take this!..boom…take THAT! I’LL teach you to question my escape from reality! And so it goes, each time reality tries to assert itself. It’s difficult to make a point that does not comport with his worldview and/or his ambitions.
The only way to combat this is to, exactly as you have said, Steven, renew and repair the systems that have frayed beyond recognition. We will have to win and fight for what we hope will be the winning results of this election, but I fear that winning will not be enough. In fact, I have resigned myself to that fact and realize that we must look beyond the results to find a way to make them viable. He’s going to throw the book at this vote. Let’s hope and pray that the millions of hearts and minds behind a majority vote to unseat Republicans who do not uphold our democracy will not be invisible. If they’re going to try to push all of us off the democratic cliff in November, so be it, but we as the ‘just majority’ must hold hands and jump together.
That’s the spirit, Ellen.
Since there IS strength in numbers, I suppose we should issue an engraved invitation to all Republicans to join our flyover away from authoritarianism toward some poinpointed destination where we all can thrive!
The fact we have to talk about people worshiping a statue of Trump shows the depth to which our country has sunk. This is dictator-level narcissism never before seen in a president. Couple this with the destruction of the White House and the rest of D.C. on his whims and we are no longer a country the world respects. For example, who can respect a country that celebrates its 250th birthday with a cage fight on the White House lawn.
As noted, this is only possible with the unabashed support of Republican legislators who are too cowardly to fulfill their oath to the Constitution and not to Trump. I'm old enough to have watched when Republicans had the guts and love for the country to tell Nixon to resign. Today's Republicans only want to get re-elected and are afraid of Trump's tweets.
Voting all of them out is the only hope to save our country.
Choose wisely 😌
Thanks for recalibrating Felon47’s narcissistic misogynistic political interactions with Rachel Scott by writing what REALLY HAPPENED, Steven. Your analysis is so “on point”!
Thank you, Laurel.
Thank you so much for your work.
Excerpt
“It remains critical to speak out about the need for an increasingly unhinged and dangerous Trump be removed from office and to support candidates who are committed to holding him and others in his regime accountable for their corrupt and criminal actions.
But the work this year and in the coming years also requires recognizing the failures of our political system and fixing a broken society that advances men and women who never should have been put in positions of power.”
If you have to say it isn’t a golden calf, it IS.
I'm not sure how the mood and substance of the American electorate can be changed wholesale to prevent another trump from happening. Or for that matter, ensure Senate and House victory in November. While our standing in the world sinks to lower and lower levels, and domestically we are roiled by jacked up gas prices and soon food and other shortages, the folks who put trump in office are still alive and well and waiting for the next messiah to come along and make good on unworldly promises. They are not the ones we've been waiting for. Trump may have got us into this mess but it was the 49.9% who put him there. I dunno. Civic and history education? Financial literacy (the debt! the debt!). Healthy habits that include time outs from the algorithms and eating good-for-you food? Taxing the rich to help level up the social and economic playing field for all Americans? I'm flummoxed. All or none of these might wrench this country back from the cliff we are so clearly charging off of. Maybe the best we can do is to find just one more person--more if you are able--to convince that it isn't too late to save the great American Experiment. Maybe we can bring hope (and a pipe) to the fistfight while we are also busy stopping Republicans at every turn. In a deep, tragic world of hurt, we must act as if democracy depended on it.
My question is: why do the "press" continue to debase themselves and their bosses by even being in front of this despicable person?? He lives and breathes to call them names, disparage their presence, mock them like children. And yet their networks keep sending them and they keep going to this $#!+show. We KNOW every time it will be a flocking name calling show just for HIM. MSM, call off your reporters before they all die of humiliation and shame!
One word: access. In the desire to have it, they are willing to debase themselves, as you rightly put it.
And they've lost credibility so why keep doing same thing over and over expecting a different result. Insanity - theirs and his! Networks don't care, and they've losing viewers in droves. Thx for clarification.
At the root of all of this is the Heritage Foundation. While the malfeasant regime currently in power continues to call "antifa" a terrorist organization, the real enemy is an actual organization that continues to support, influence and pursue anti-democratic principles that undermine the very foundation of our government and rule of law, the Constitution. The Heritage Foundation has infiltrated every branch of our government, including the Supreme Court, and, in my opinion, is the premier terrorist organization currently operating in our country.
He's doing all of this for 2 reasons: squirrel, as you mentioned. The others? Because he thinks he'll be loved. It doesn't work that way. He can't be loved if he can't love others. It will never undo the trauma from his childhood when he wasn't loved.
This in turn leads to questions about putin, xi, netanyahu, bolsanaro, thiel, miller, musk, vance, johnson, roberts, etc. What do they have on trump? What do they have on each other? Because it would be fascinating to know what putin has on all of them. It would be interesting to know how truly messed up all of their childhoods were. Yes, it almost always goes back to the most crucial ages of 0-5.
It is a disgrace that members of the press will only lob softball questions at Trump and then let him get away with evasive, nonsensical answers laced with personal insults. They could make a start by calling out his lies in real time. What a travesty of our once free press that they let him get away with any of this unchallenged. To learn how to do their jobs responsibly, our reporters need to watch their counterparts in the BBC questioning Keir Starmer and demanding relevant answers.
Our situation here has now blown through the bounds of absurdity. I mean, the guy is now waging war while building gold statues of himself. Why are we letting him any of this happen?
We have a Jekyll/Hyde thing going in this country, only it's not all one thing or all the other: there's plenty of middle ground between the two. Something like a third of those polled still approve of Trump's performance. What does that mean? How much do these people know about what Trump is up to? What do they want? I don't have a clue.
I do know that Trump didn't come out of nowhere, and that too many of us have been missing or dismissing the danger signs for decades.
Nixon's "southern strategy." The Reagan administration's creative use of white grievance to hand the country over to Big Money. What journalist Dana Milbank called "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party" under Gingri(n)ch et al. Clinton's gutting of the Glass-Steagall Act, further enabling Big Money to undermine and corrupt the electoral process. Bush II's appointment of Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court, followed shortly by conservative freakout about the election of a Black president, followed in turn by the Citizens United decision and the Tea Party election, both in 2010. (It's easy to forget that things were screwed up *before* Mitch McConnell orchestrated the packing of the Court with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.)
This sequence of events might not have made Trump inevitable, but it sure as hell made him possible, and the inescapable fact that he was re-elected in 2024 when we the people really, really should have known better . . . Well, I rest my case. There's something rotten in the state of the Union, and the rot has been rotting for -- what do you know?? -- 250 years. Guess it's finally time to deal with it for real.
if we win and get to Jan 20 2027 then we have a chance but that is 8 months away.. look what he has done in the last 8 months...he and his followers,cabinet, congress, judges & supremes are covered in blood...and it is real blood.. starvation, torture, murder, wars .....shame shame shame
As Mother's Day comes to a close, on the obligatory Sunday during which mothers and the sacrifices they make are honored on that one day, and not on the other 364 days of the year, once again we are subjected to the rantings of a horrific man.
In November 2025, Trump interrupted a question from Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey and said, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.” Critics described it as sexist and demeaning.
Some other notable remarks Trump has made about women over the years include:
Calling Rosie O’Donnell “a fat pig,” “a slob,” and “disgusting.”
Referring to Kim Kardashian as having a “fat ass.”
Calling Stormy Daniels “Horseface.”
Saying about Carly Fiorina during the 2016 primary: “Look at that face!”
Nicknaming former Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” after she gained weight.
Saying of journalist Megyn Kelly there was “blood coming out of her wherever.”
Calling women generally “dogs,” “slobs,” or “disgusting animals” in various interviews and tweets over the decades.
Saying of Hillary Clinton during a debate: “Such a nasty woman.”
Telling a female contestant on The Apprentice: “It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
Saying on the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape that celebrities can “grab ’em by the pussy.”
(and this, I am certain, accounts for only some of his vapid remarks referring to women. Talk about "Mommy issues.")
The lack of response or push-back from any of the male reporters present at these moments is also alarming. We are in an extremely dark tunnel groping for the light which is so far away as to be indiscernible. Another 176 days till the midterms. And people had better wake up and vote the entire cabal OUT.