The cruelty is sickening, and the regression from our vision of the Great Society could not be more tragic. It is especially galling as it comes on the eve of the 61st anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. To quote historian Julian Zelizer, “The basic social ethic championed by liberals of President Johnson’s generation is under severe threat in 2025. As the nation mourns Moyers’ passing, we would do well to think about the vision that he, and President Johnson, championed — of a government that helps lift people up rather than pushing them down. Under Trump, it’s clear that Washington is hostile to domestic programs that help minimize widening economic disparities and address social hatred and inequality.
President Johnson called on a generation of Americans to renew the meaning of freedom. Sixty-one years later, the meaning is shrinking and LBJ’s appeal to the moral conscience, along with his demand to build a Great Society, is quickly fading.”
His comments today about immigrants getting eaten by alligators and how they’re going have to run to try to get away was the most evil despicable, and he was enjoying saying it.
It’s nothing but pure evil
It really is unbelievable
It’s nothing but thinking and behavior of a predator
international court charging and putting on trial for violation of human rights?????
I agree that this is a party that has gone "mad in service to a suicide-inducing cult leader." But at what point does the blame also have to go to the American people who have not only enabled but embraced this madness and cult? We've been dealing with this in one form or another for eight years, and every time the madness grows worse, their political power only seems to grow. The fact of the matter is that voters keep rewarding this madness, and so what we're seeing with this party is a reflection of what too many Americans have become. What's the solution? We always hear how deeply unpopular their policies are, how much pain they inflict, yet voters keep rewarding it. It's not like there aren't other options. Republicans could nominate sane, decent people, but they seem to like what their party has become, and enough other people are willing to go along. Elections have consequences, as one or two people have said over the years.
Because those in power fear losing that power. And they fear the power of getting doxed and beaten up by faceless thugs on the Internet. I really don't understand the mindset but I do believe the Republican party goes around peeing on itself. How can you support a "leader" you fear?
I'm with you, Craig. I live among the working and middle classes and I see little else but mild admiration for the cult leader. I've actually been hoping gas prices would explode to $6 or $7 per gallon, thinking that might awaken the sleeping masses. No such luck. In Tampa, Fl the gas is at a 4 year low.
I live in Dunedin and I pray that we remain sort of quiet except for the protests. I know that is probably a pipe dream . Never thought I would say this but being in this red state may keep our world a bit calmer. I worry for all the immigrants we have that are not criminals but that does not seem to matter to our governor any more than the PINO. They are too busy planning on having a country that has no immigrants or those with birthright citizenship. Just unforgivable. I have to believe in the old saying "what goes around comes around". Eventually they will get theirs. I just hope I live long enough o see it happen.
I too worry and wonder if the immigrants are in more danger if they reside in blue states. I think this regime will survive if prices remain relatively low. It's just that simple for too many folks.
Here in Michigan, gas prices haven’t gone down at all since Trump was President. Either have egg or grocery prices- but his cultish followers don’t care at all.
Trump and his cult, including the Senate and the House, have yet to feel any consequences of note, so they continue. Trump seems to be teflon in that he survived a bout of Covid that might have killed him without the first-rate medical care presidents receive and an assassination attempt by mere inches. He sees himself as untouchable and immortal. I don't know what the excuse is for the Republicans in the House and Senate.
I guess the Senate gave the pearl-clutching Lisa Murkowski the perks she wanted for Alaska, letting her fellow Republicans screw over the rest of the country. Shameless and evil. All to make rich people richer and struggling people die a faster and more painful death. Whom do they think receives Medicaid? Shiftless folks who don't want to work? Not only is it evil, it shows what a bubble these people live in. I'm so angry I could spit cotton. Resist. Resist. Into the streets, y'all! Into the streets!
Asking for a friend... The Republicans want to root out Medicaid abuse and fraud with this bill. It's as if they're saying that millions of Americans are profiting by claiming to need medical care. Isn't payment for medical services paid directly to the physician or hospital performing the service as a reimbursement? Haven't there been cases of providers falsifying reimbursement requests with inflated costs or totally bogus claims? Wasn't Rick Scott involved in something similar when he ran a Florida hospital chain? Are there any provisions in the big beautiful bamboozle to address provider fraud? Haven't heard a word from the GOP regarding that.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams
When will the majority of eligible voters realize that the jackbooted-on-the-neck cruelty of this fascist regime is the point? One of the first rules of fascism is to exercise total control over a population through fear, intimidation and the imposition of draconian measures that are designed to impose severe pain. Fall in line, or else.
A recent study by Lancet concludes that - in addition to the 350,000 children and adults who have already been killed in Africa - a further 14 million could perish by 2030 as a result of Trump's termination of the USAID program. The scale of the genocide would put Trump in first place with Stalin and Hitler. Is anyone listening?
Rise up, friends! We have no choice but to take to the streets in numbers sufficient to bring this regime to a grinding halt. Or else, the blood of all those innocents will be on our hands as well.
They will pass it. They have no spine, no brains, no soul. And you know why? Because most Americans really don't give a rat's ass about what is going on past their own noses. I routinely post calls to action or just information pieces about politics on FB, CRICKETS. No one responds, no one gives any reaction whatsoever. No one gives a damn.
I hear you Roberta. People in general just don’t care, or want to be bothered. Almost all my family and friends fit into this category. As long as they are ok…
The really nasty part of this is that the cuts to Medicaid won’t be activated until 2027, after the midterms. People will not remember what it will do unless we keep talking about it loudly. Get out on the streets and protest peacefully, but make noise.
The cynical name of this horrid bill. Open allegiance to moneyed interests. Hypocrisy. For the Trump voters who lose their health coverage, screw you. To the people who don’t bother to vote and lose their health coverage, time to start paying attention. When Trump and his band of profiteers break the dollar, we will all get a lot poorer fast.
All this brutality masked people pulling people off the streets
Brutal beating them up
A Florida man just reported died in ice detention
Family devastated
Donald Trump tweeted this out :
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
T, Homan , miller , all of them every single one of them charged and tried by the international courts for HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS??????????
Everything you post, Steven is 100% true and thank you for putting it out there and keeping everything straight and unraveled.
Thank you for being a steady constant source of knowledge and insight
This is what we have to do for this highest levels of illegal and unconstitutional actions and behavior.
We are in the middle of a fascist authoritarian takeover . Trump, family and this whole group are highly skilled practitioners of the highest levels of manipulation
Gaslighting
Pathological lying (as easily as a normal human being breathes)
Pathological projection of themselves- they are always accusing others of things that they think they have done or they are going to do. Things nobody else would ever think of. A classic example of this the constant repeating “ the Biden Crime Family “.
Creating false narratives
Spreading misinformation
Brainwashing
Mind control
Outright corruption
It is very necessary to keep unraveling over and over again.
Christian nationalism that is going on has nothing to do with the tenants of Christianity.
Goes in hand with facism.
It is brutal. It is vicious. It is fascist. It is bigoted. It is cruel. It is racist. It is misogynistic.
I also want to put out there about the
“Grievances “ that the colonies filed against England that led to the American Revolution.
A review of these “grievances “ are eerily similar to what is being done to Americans in our country right now that led our founding fathers to create our country with our constitution, the declaration of independent with 3 equal branches of government
Freedom of speech
Absolute separation of church and state which was done deliberately for a reason.
What is going on right now is what our founding fathers had enough insight to look into the future and actually put down on paper what they thought would bring down the nation that they were creating.
They were always contemplating having a person of integrity, honesty, and character in the executive branch.
Sunday Freed Zakaria on his program on CNN, which is excellent, interviewed Sally Yates and former attorney general Alberto Gonzales from the Bush administration .
He came out and said that the executive office needs to have a person with morals and integrity to avoid any abuse of power as president.
Fareed asked him if he thought Donald Trump had that .
He answered with no hesitation “no “ that he did not think that he had the morals or the integrity as president to not abuse power.
It is hard to believe in our Supreme Court looks like they’re going to support one single president with a stroke of a pen to ABOLISH the 14th amendment of our United States Constitution that was properly ratified to ensure birthright citizenship.
The shit is really going to hit a majority of MAGATS once this bill goes through but a lot of it happens after the midterms. So these lemmings are not going to be voting again the First Felon in the next election. We have to keep fighting.
Thank You Steven ... My biggest fear is that the fall out from this bill will happen after the 2026 election ..Lets say the dems get back in and the fall out starts after they are in .. It seems to me that so many Americans aren't willng to find out what is actually happening ... I can see the dems being blamed for what happens .. And FOX and friends tell people it is because of the dems taking over. The lying that the nauseating bill was actually good for America except for those dems. I hope I am wrong and maybe just being an idiot.
The cruelty is sickening, and the regression from our vision of the Great Society could not be more tragic. It is especially galling as it comes on the eve of the 61st anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. To quote historian Julian Zelizer, “The basic social ethic championed by liberals of President Johnson’s generation is under severe threat in 2025. As the nation mourns Moyers’ passing, we would do well to think about the vision that he, and President Johnson, championed — of a government that helps lift people up rather than pushing them down. Under Trump, it’s clear that Washington is hostile to domestic programs that help minimize widening economic disparities and address social hatred and inequality.
President Johnson called on a generation of Americans to renew the meaning of freedom. Sixty-one years later, the meaning is shrinking and LBJ’s appeal to the moral conscience, along with his demand to build a Great Society, is quickly fading.”
Girl, it's gone.
Yeah, well, let’s do our best to resurrect it— and make it as ironclad as possible.
He loves along with Miller Homan Noem all of them
They love viciousness
They love violence
They love to humiliate and power over people
His comments today about immigrants getting eaten by alligators and how they’re going have to run to try to get away was the most evil despicable, and he was enjoying saying it.
It’s nothing but pure evil
It really is unbelievable
It’s nothing but thinking and behavior of a predator
international court charging and putting on trial for violation of human rights?????
Crimes against humanity
I agree that this is a party that has gone "mad in service to a suicide-inducing cult leader." But at what point does the blame also have to go to the American people who have not only enabled but embraced this madness and cult? We've been dealing with this in one form or another for eight years, and every time the madness grows worse, their political power only seems to grow. The fact of the matter is that voters keep rewarding this madness, and so what we're seeing with this party is a reflection of what too many Americans have become. What's the solution? We always hear how deeply unpopular their policies are, how much pain they inflict, yet voters keep rewarding it. It's not like there aren't other options. Republicans could nominate sane, decent people, but they seem to like what their party has become, and enough other people are willing to go along. Elections have consequences, as one or two people have said over the years.
Because those in power fear losing that power. And they fear the power of getting doxed and beaten up by faceless thugs on the Internet. I really don't understand the mindset but I do believe the Republican party goes around peeing on itself. How can you support a "leader" you fear?
I'm with you, Craig. I live among the working and middle classes and I see little else but mild admiration for the cult leader. I've actually been hoping gas prices would explode to $6 or $7 per gallon, thinking that might awaken the sleeping masses. No such luck. In Tampa, Fl the gas is at a 4 year low.
I live in Dunedin and I pray that we remain sort of quiet except for the protests. I know that is probably a pipe dream . Never thought I would say this but being in this red state may keep our world a bit calmer. I worry for all the immigrants we have that are not criminals but that does not seem to matter to our governor any more than the PINO. They are too busy planning on having a country that has no immigrants or those with birthright citizenship. Just unforgivable. I have to believe in the old saying "what goes around comes around". Eventually they will get theirs. I just hope I live long enough o see it happen.
I too worry and wonder if the immigrants are in more danger if they reside in blue states. I think this regime will survive if prices remain relatively low. It's just that simple for too many folks.
Drumpf did order the guard and military to blue states for just that reason. Despicable
Here in Michigan, gas prices haven’t gone down at all since Trump was President. Either have egg or grocery prices- but his cultish followers don’t care at all.
Trump and his cult, including the Senate and the House, have yet to feel any consequences of note, so they continue. Trump seems to be teflon in that he survived a bout of Covid that might have killed him without the first-rate medical care presidents receive and an assassination attempt by mere inches. He sees himself as untouchable and immortal. I don't know what the excuse is for the Republicans in the House and Senate.
The republicans are so corrupted and the party is dead - just gutted out.
Trump was talking about the snakes in the alligators that are going to surround this new immigration detention center that he is so excited about .
They are the snakes slithering around
I guess the Senate gave the pearl-clutching Lisa Murkowski the perks she wanted for Alaska, letting her fellow Republicans screw over the rest of the country. Shameless and evil. All to make rich people richer and struggling people die a faster and more painful death. Whom do they think receives Medicaid? Shiftless folks who don't want to work? Not only is it evil, it shows what a bubble these people live in. I'm so angry I could spit cotton. Resist. Resist. Into the streets, y'all! Into the streets!
Asking for a friend... The Republicans want to root out Medicaid abuse and fraud with this bill. It's as if they're saying that millions of Americans are profiting by claiming to need medical care. Isn't payment for medical services paid directly to the physician or hospital performing the service as a reimbursement? Haven't there been cases of providers falsifying reimbursement requests with inflated costs or totally bogus claims? Wasn't Rick Scott involved in something similar when he ran a Florida hospital chain? Are there any provisions in the big beautiful bamboozle to address provider fraud? Haven't heard a word from the GOP regarding that.
Yes, and with his wealth, Rick Scott escaped consequences and even got elected to the Senate.
He was FL governor prior to the Senate. Just shows that crime does pay.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams
Sickening!
When will the majority of eligible voters realize that the jackbooted-on-the-neck cruelty of this fascist regime is the point? One of the first rules of fascism is to exercise total control over a population through fear, intimidation and the imposition of draconian measures that are designed to impose severe pain. Fall in line, or else.
A recent study by Lancet concludes that - in addition to the 350,000 children and adults who have already been killed in Africa - a further 14 million could perish by 2030 as a result of Trump's termination of the USAID program. The scale of the genocide would put Trump in first place with Stalin and Hitler. Is anyone listening?
Rise up, friends! We have no choice but to take to the streets in numbers sufficient to bring this regime to a grinding halt. Or else, the blood of all those innocents will be on our hands as well.
It's time.
They will pass it. They have no spine, no brains, no soul. And you know why? Because most Americans really don't give a rat's ass about what is going on past their own noses. I routinely post calls to action or just information pieces about politics on FB, CRICKETS. No one responds, no one gives any reaction whatsoever. No one gives a damn.
Yes, there’s certain people I send things to and there’s nothing but dead silence.
I hear you Roberta. People in general just don’t care, or want to be bothered. Almost all my family and friends fit into this category. As long as they are ok…
The really nasty part of this is that the cuts to Medicaid won’t be activated until 2027, after the midterms. People will not remember what it will do unless we keep talking about it loudly. Get out on the streets and protest peacefully, but make noise.
Just in time for Lisa Murkowski to run for re-election in 2028!
The cynical name of this horrid bill. Open allegiance to moneyed interests. Hypocrisy. For the Trump voters who lose their health coverage, screw you. To the people who don’t bother to vote and lose their health coverage, time to start paying attention. When Trump and his band of profiteers break the dollar, we will all get a lot poorer fast.
All this brutality masked people pulling people off the streets
Brutal beating them up
A Florida man just reported died in ice detention
Family devastated
Donald Trump tweeted this out :
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
T, Homan , miller , all of them every single one of them charged and tried by the international courts for HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS??????????
Crimes against humanity
Everything you post, Steven is 100% true and thank you for putting it out there and keeping everything straight and unraveled.
Thank you for being a steady constant source of knowledge and insight
This is what we have to do for this highest levels of illegal and unconstitutional actions and behavior.
We are in the middle of a fascist authoritarian takeover . Trump, family and this whole group are highly skilled practitioners of the highest levels of manipulation
Gaslighting
Pathological lying (as easily as a normal human being breathes)
Pathological projection of themselves- they are always accusing others of things that they think they have done or they are going to do. Things nobody else would ever think of. A classic example of this the constant repeating “ the Biden Crime Family “.
Creating false narratives
Spreading misinformation
Brainwashing
Mind control
Outright corruption
It is very necessary to keep unraveling over and over again.
Christian nationalism that is going on has nothing to do with the tenants of Christianity.
Goes in hand with facism.
It is brutal. It is vicious. It is fascist. It is bigoted. It is cruel. It is racist. It is misogynistic.
I also want to put out there about the
“Grievances “ that the colonies filed against England that led to the American Revolution.
A review of these “grievances “ are eerily similar to what is being done to Americans in our country right now that led our founding fathers to create our country with our constitution, the declaration of independent with 3 equal branches of government
Freedom of speech
Absolute separation of church and state which was done deliberately for a reason.
What is going on right now is what our founding fathers had enough insight to look into the future and actually put down on paper what they thought would bring down the nation that they were creating.
They were always contemplating having a person of integrity, honesty, and character in the executive branch.
Sunday Freed Zakaria on his program on CNN, which is excellent, interviewed Sally Yates and former attorney general Alberto Gonzales from the Bush administration .
He came out and said that the executive office needs to have a person with morals and integrity to avoid any abuse of power as president.
Fareed asked him if he thought Donald Trump had that .
He answered with no hesitation “no “ that he did not think that he had the morals or the integrity as president to not abuse power.
It is hard to believe in our Supreme Court looks like they’re going to support one single president with a stroke of a pen to ABOLISH the 14th amendment of our United States Constitution that was properly ratified to ensure birthright citizenship.
It is all unbelievable
Hell on earth. We are there.
A Reality Show from Hell
The shit is really going to hit a majority of MAGATS once this bill goes through but a lot of it happens after the midterms. So these lemmings are not going to be voting again the First Felon in the next election. We have to keep fighting.
I'm waiting for the Republican spin that it is all Joe Biden's fault.
You perfectly describe my sentiments and my horror about this bill. I am more determined than ever to fight to defeat this cruel and corrupt regime.
Thank You Steven ... My biggest fear is that the fall out from this bill will happen after the 2026 election ..Lets say the dems get back in and the fall out starts after they are in .. It seems to me that so many Americans aren't willng to find out what is actually happening ... I can see the dems being blamed for what happens .. And FOX and friends tell people it is because of the dems taking over. The lying that the nauseating bill was actually good for America except for those dems. I hope I am wrong and maybe just being an idiot.
Today, it seems the great American Experiment of our Democratic Republic is doomed to cause irreparable harm as it faces a long, slow demise.
Will you celebrate this 4th of July, known for centuries as the United States of America Day of Independence, or will you grieve its impending death?
Whichever you choose, consider this answer given by Benjamin Franklin following the
question asked on Sept 17, 1787 ( following the Constitutional Convention ):
“ Well. Doctor, what have we got a republic or monarchy? “
‘“ A republic if you can keep it.”’
If we're not careful,our protest and organized opposition will be nothing more than symbolic. This could get even worse.