“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” - Abraham Lincoln
This guy scares the heck out of me…not because he’s strong but because he is a weak man who wields the power of the Presidency like someone in an ax-throwing contest. He does not intend to leave office. He does not intend to lose the House or Senate, or both, and if we do not know this by now, then G-D help us all. The only positive thing about the speech was that he has explicitly laid out both his intentions and strategy so that no one can say that they did not expect this to happen, and by “this” I mean the takeover of the elections and its results so that his party cannot lose. It’s very seductive to Republicans. They do not want to lose. By now we should all know that they live by the axiom that “the ends justify the means”.
This is the final act of a corrupt government. We need courage. We need legal and strategic strength. We need the will to do what is right, because we are all going to be called upon to defend our government and way of life at the ballot box and in the courts and our communities. Let us take our cues from the bravest and most honorable people in our history. Let them inspire and awaken us to new possibilities. Let new ideas and new ways of thinking vanquish Trump, because that is our most powerful antidote to the disease of authoritarianism. And finally, let us roll up our sleeves to see it all through.
I believe 4 major news outlets not broadcasting his speech tells us he will not command the media on his election scheme as he has in the past.
Yes, as you say, folks tired of Drumpf need to gather their common sense, their courage & vote. It is likely this anti-election campaign will suppress his own voters. Remember MGT campaigning for Senate candidates in 2021? Her election conspiracy talk was believed to have unanticipated result of suppressing white GOP rural voters in GA especially in her district (northwest GA). Dems, Ossoff & Warnock, took both seats.
• “The turnout disparity is more pronounced at the county level, where 17 of 159 counties saw a turnout drop of at least 10% or more. They are concentrated in GOP strongholds across northwest Georgia, like Chattooga, Walker, Murray, Bartow and Gordon counties, and northeast Georgia in places like Jackson, Barrow, Stephens and Banks counties.”
• “While several factors are responsible for Georgia now having two Democratic U.S. senators, the drastic decline in turnout among Georgia’s white rural GOP base came as President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other top Republicans assailed Georgia’s election system, falsely claiming widespread fraud altered the outcome and ultimately led to many voters staying home.”
Read it twice already, explored the links, reveled in the biting accurate descriptive vocabulary of the degrading behavior of this
…. Regimes …plethora of..
“crackpots, sociopaths, malignant narcissists, misogynists, sadists, pathological liars and desperate sycophants in positions of power”
And
…”stream of idiots and cowards eager to please an unfit White House occupant who prefers lickspittles over professionals…”
These are exactly who are cavorting through our Democracy..
I had planned sometime away but salivating War Monger “Killer Pete” video of his T -Man (😵💫) testosterone cheer leading rally about invading the privacy of our military by testing their levels… was so insane … I had to wait to read and research.
The Nazis tested for testosterone
And supplemental testosterone can have negative effects.
That “Killer Pete” is even doing the testing at all is macabre enough — but he just had to create a ridiculous video and flaunt his exuberant ignorance.
The "boy" who cried wolf can not sustain that threat... he's even exhausted his magas... if elections are rigged why did he win and democrats loose...his die-hard magas will sacrifice their own families to stay true to this monster....that is just sad
Well said; your last sentence - "overwhelming turnout", says it all. His decaying mind was on full -his speech garbled, mispronouncing the big words like magnificent & spewing falsehoods.
I did watch on MSNOW because I wanted to hear the mistruths he would use. They cut away before he was done to counteract his falsehoods with documents/proof from that time. Multiple times I have said, "we must vote in numbers too large to question the outcome" but now will use Steven's phrase - must have 'OVERWHELMING' turnout.
Remember: Elections are, according to the United States Constitution, relegated to the States, NOT the feds. But obviously, demented donny has not read this doc.
We didn't spend one minute watching his nonsensical address. I've read that in his first few minutes he just rambled about other bizarro things before he talked about his main topic, which to use a phrase from his favorite sport (that he cheats at) is "par for the course".
The terribly sad part is that 1/3 of Americans believed every word he said last night. They believe that space lasers started the California fires, that the Clintons' run a pedophilia ring in a Washington DC basement and that vaccines kill more people than they save. When that many people are so hopelessly ignorant, let's hope that the majority that do not believe any of those things can overcome that in the end.
CNN did not broadcast his speech. MS NOW gave him about 10 minutes and pulled out to do continuing factcheck & analysis related to election lies. FOX “News” ran the speech live.
Considering Drumpf’s allegations include the so-called deep state witholding information (raw intelligence which has no value) from him about all these terrible things, is John Ratliff going to be among the investigated & prosecuted? He was DNI in T1. Drumpf brought him back in T2 and Ratliff is serving as Director of the CIA.
Democrats approving John Ratcliffe for CIA: ALSOBROOKS, BENNET, BOOKER, COONS, DURBIN, GALLEGO, GILLIBRAND, HASSAN, HICKENLOOPER, KAINE, KELLY, KIM KLOBUCHAR, PETERS, ROSEN, SHAHEEN, SLOTKIN, WARNER, & WHITEHOUSE. With Democrats like the above, we need not excoriate Trump and the Republicans.
Steven, all the grinding of teeth, wringing of hands, name calling, verbal insults are NOT going to rid us of tDump. He knows Americans will rely on legal, democratic means to remove him from Office. That said, he on the other hand…is openly broadcasting by lying, cheating, threatening…he will do whatever he must to interfere, disrupt, discredit or otherwise prevent this from happening. He is setting up his Goons to be a threat as well as, lining up his enablers/abettors. Furthermore, it’s more than obvious…he is stoking his “war” to become the physical reason to declare some sort of emergency to cancel the Elections outright. None of these things are figments of our imaginations or dreamt up conspiracies! Americans have to keep in mind this situation comes to the forefront in ONLY five (5) months!! Then what????
He hasn’t learn from the GA 2021 elections what happens when you tell people who believe in you that the elections are ‘rigged’. There are 2 Dem Senators in GA because the elections lie plan backfired & Dems got out to vote. We can not and we should not help him by being too afraid or too discouraged to vote.
“Who stayed home in Georgia’s Senate runoffs? Rural white Republicans”
• While several factors are responsible for Georgia now having two Democratic U.S. senators, the drastic decline in turnout among Georgia’s white rural GOP base came as President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other top Republicans assailed Georgia’s election system, falsely claiming widespread fraud altered the outcome and ultimately led to many voters staying home.
Steven, all the grinding of teeth, wringing of hands, name calling, verbal insults are NOT going to rid us of tDump. He knows Americans will rely on legal, democratic means to remove him from of Office. That said, he on the other hand…is openly broadcasting by lying, cheating, threatening…he will do whatever he must to interfere, disrupt, discredit or otherwise prevent this from happening. He is setting up his Goons to be a threat as well as, lining up his enablers/abettors. Furthermore, it’s more than obvious…he is stoking his “war” to become the physical reason to declare some sort of emergency to cancel the Elections outright. None of these things are figments of our imaginations or dreamt up conspiracies! Americans have to keep in mind this situation comes to the forefront in ONLY five (5) months!! Then what????
Governors and secretaries of state and others are preparing. They'll need to keep preparing to protect their states' elections. And after: investigations and prosecutions must begin. And for the record, I try to use adjectives and nouns not to insult but to be as accurate as I can.
In addition “The Senate is ramping up a program the House already had “Senate Democrats’ Election Observer Program will be similar to the long-running program in the House of Representatives and follows the October 2024 passage of the Confirmation of Congressional Observer Access (COCOA) Act, which confirmed the constitutional authority of Congress, specifically the Chair and Ranking Members of the Committee on House Administration and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to designate congressional election observers.”
Steven…I must apologize. I should have been more specific when replying to your original piece. I should have prefaced my comments by saying , “People must understand”. Then inserted my comment. The reason I subscribe to your writing is that it is intelligent, sensible, precise and speaks clearly to your chosen subject matter!
I have to admit to being quilty of becoming irrational when grown(?) people’s responses sound like imature children. I much prefer to read a short concise sentence than a paragraph of senseless “name calling”!
I watched Jim Acosta interview Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) tonight. She's a former CIA officer, spent her career alongside our military. She understands what foreign threats are and are not. Her advice to everyone who is responsible for election integrity is to get their game plan into action NOW, to have lawyers at the ready, the subpoenas, and judges on speed dial. There is no question that trump will try to overturn the election, even going so far as to seize the ballots (which is illegal, even in an "emergency.") So, it behooves us to put pressure on our local poll workers, secretaries of state, county and precinct officials to have a plan up and ready to go. The man is on the knife's edge of sanity, his grievances and venom growing by the day as the reality of the midterms continues to sink in. Rather than try to do his actual job, make good on his promises and conduct himself as a true statesman, he is busy tearing at the roots of democracy. Let's not let him do it! There are more of us than there are of them, even if he sics ICE and the National Guard on us at the polls. Vote by mail if you can. Maybe concerned and responsible vets will join forces on the ground, serving as a bulwark against any violence, protecting voters while they exercise our most precious franchise. We can't just look the other way while the republic is set on fire.
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” - Abraham Lincoln
Past time to act like it.
Thank you for sharing this very important quote from Lincoln, whose integrity and character were above raproach.
I agree and I did not waste one second of my time on the aggrieved bobblehead troll.
Thank you for “bobble head troll” terminology. 🇺🇸💙
Yes, Jo! Your witty “turn of phrase” definitely made me smile! Thanks!
You are welcome 😊
❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
This guy scares the heck out of me…not because he’s strong but because he is a weak man who wields the power of the Presidency like someone in an ax-throwing contest. He does not intend to leave office. He does not intend to lose the House or Senate, or both, and if we do not know this by now, then G-D help us all. The only positive thing about the speech was that he has explicitly laid out both his intentions and strategy so that no one can say that they did not expect this to happen, and by “this” I mean the takeover of the elections and its results so that his party cannot lose. It’s very seductive to Republicans. They do not want to lose. By now we should all know that they live by the axiom that “the ends justify the means”.
This is the final act of a corrupt government. We need courage. We need legal and strategic strength. We need the will to do what is right, because we are all going to be called upon to defend our government and way of life at the ballot box and in the courts and our communities. Let us take our cues from the bravest and most honorable people in our history. Let them inspire and awaken us to new possibilities. Let new ideas and new ways of thinking vanquish Trump, because that is our most powerful antidote to the disease of authoritarianism. And finally, let us roll up our sleeves to see it all through.
I believe 4 major news outlets not broadcasting his speech tells us he will not command the media on his election scheme as he has in the past.
Yes, as you say, folks tired of Drumpf need to gather their common sense, their courage & vote. It is likely this anti-election campaign will suppress his own voters. Remember MGT campaigning for Senate candidates in 2021? Her election conspiracy talk was believed to have unanticipated result of suppressing white GOP rural voters in GA especially in her district (northwest GA). Dems, Ossoff & Warnock, took both seats.
• “The turnout disparity is more pronounced at the county level, where 17 of 159 counties saw a turnout drop of at least 10% or more. They are concentrated in GOP strongholds across northwest Georgia, like Chattooga, Walker, Murray, Bartow and Gordon counties, and northeast Georgia in places like Jackson, Barrow, Stephens and Banks counties.”
• “While several factors are responsible for Georgia now having two Democratic U.S. senators, the drastic decline in turnout among Georgia’s white rural GOP base came as President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other top Republicans assailed Georgia’s election system, falsely claiming widespread fraud altered the outcome and ultimately led to many voters staying home.”
https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/who-stayed-home-in-georgias-senate-runoffs-rural-white-republicans/
This is another of your finest essays, Steven.
Read it twice already, explored the links, reveled in the biting accurate descriptive vocabulary of the degrading behavior of this
…. Regimes …plethora of..
“crackpots, sociopaths, malignant narcissists, misogynists, sadists, pathological liars and desperate sycophants in positions of power”
And
…”stream of idiots and cowards eager to please an unfit White House occupant who prefers lickspittles over professionals…”
These are exactly who are cavorting through our Democracy..
I had planned sometime away but salivating War Monger “Killer Pete” video of his T -Man (😵💫) testosterone cheer leading rally about invading the privacy of our military by testing their levels… was so insane … I had to wait to read and research.
The Nazis tested for testosterone
And supplemental testosterone can have negative effects.
That “Killer Pete” is even doing the testing at all is macabre enough — but he just had to create a ridiculous video and flaunt his exuberant ignorance.
I’m grateful for all your words again today.
Thanks very much.
The "boy" who cried wolf can not sustain that threat... he's even exhausted his magas... if elections are rigged why did he win and democrats loose...his die-hard magas will sacrifice their own families to stay true to this monster....that is just sad
Well said; your last sentence - "overwhelming turnout", says it all. His decaying mind was on full -his speech garbled, mispronouncing the big words like magnificent & spewing falsehoods.
I did watch on MSNOW because I wanted to hear the mistruths he would use. They cut away before he was done to counteract his falsehoods with documents/proof from that time. Multiple times I have said, "we must vote in numbers too large to question the outcome" but now will use Steven's phrase - must have 'OVERWHELMING' turnout.
Remember: Elections are, according to the United States Constitution, relegated to the States, NOT the feds. But obviously, demented donny has not read this doc.
We didn't spend one minute watching his nonsensical address. I've read that in his first few minutes he just rambled about other bizarro things before he talked about his main topic, which to use a phrase from his favorite sport (that he cheats at) is "par for the course".
The terribly sad part is that 1/3 of Americans believed every word he said last night. They believe that space lasers started the California fires, that the Clintons' run a pedophilia ring in a Washington DC basement and that vaccines kill more people than they save. When that many people are so hopelessly ignorant, let's hope that the majority that do not believe any of those things can overcome that in the end.
Shouldn’t “Killer Pete” have his testosterone levels checked first?
My only surprise was that he didn't declare a national emergency and cancel the midterms. Yeah, I'm that cynical . . . for good reason.
It's not an unreasonable expectation. We can expect all kinds of shenanigans as it gets closer to voting.
CNN did not broadcast his speech. MS NOW gave him about 10 minutes and pulled out to do continuing factcheck & analysis related to election lies. FOX “News” ran the speech live.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2026/07/16/donald-trump-speech-how-tv-networks-handled-news/90946176007/
Considering Drumpf’s allegations include the so-called deep state witholding information (raw intelligence which has no value) from him about all these terrible things, is John Ratliff going to be among the investigated & prosecuted? He was DNI in T1. Drumpf brought him back in T2 and Ratliff is serving as Director of the CIA.
Democrats approving John Ratcliffe for CIA: ALSOBROOKS, BENNET, BOOKER, COONS, DURBIN, GALLEGO, GILLIBRAND, HASSAN, HICKENLOOPER, KAINE, KELLY, KIM KLOBUCHAR, PETERS, ROSEN, SHAHEEN, SLOTKIN, WARNER, & WHITEHOUSE. With Democrats like the above, we need not excoriate Trump and the Republicans.
Steven, all the grinding of teeth, wringing of hands, name calling, verbal insults are NOT going to rid us of tDump. He knows Americans will rely on legal, democratic means to remove him from Office. That said, he on the other hand…is openly broadcasting by lying, cheating, threatening…he will do whatever he must to interfere, disrupt, discredit or otherwise prevent this from happening. He is setting up his Goons to be a threat as well as, lining up his enablers/abettors. Furthermore, it’s more than obvious…he is stoking his “war” to become the physical reason to declare some sort of emergency to cancel the Elections outright. None of these things are figments of our imaginations or dreamt up conspiracies! Americans have to keep in mind this situation comes to the forefront in ONLY five (5) months!! Then what????
Then we show up and vote.
He hasn’t learn from the GA 2021 elections what happens when you tell people who believe in you that the elections are ‘rigged’. There are 2 Dem Senators in GA because the elections lie plan backfired & Dems got out to vote. We can not and we should not help him by being too afraid or too discouraged to vote.
“Who stayed home in Georgia’s Senate runoffs? Rural white Republicans”
• While several factors are responsible for Georgia now having two Democratic U.S. senators, the drastic decline in turnout among Georgia’s white rural GOP base came as President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other top Republicans assailed Georgia’s election system, falsely claiming widespread fraud altered the outcome and ultimately led to many voters staying home.
https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/who-stayed-home-in-georgias-senate-runoffs-rural-white-republicans/
Steven, all the grinding of teeth, wringing of hands, name calling, verbal insults are NOT going to rid us of tDump. He knows Americans will rely on legal, democratic means to remove him from of Office. That said, he on the other hand…is openly broadcasting by lying, cheating, threatening…he will do whatever he must to interfere, disrupt, discredit or otherwise prevent this from happening. He is setting up his Goons to be a threat as well as, lining up his enablers/abettors. Furthermore, it’s more than obvious…he is stoking his “war” to become the physical reason to declare some sort of emergency to cancel the Elections outright. None of these things are figments of our imaginations or dreamt up conspiracies! Americans have to keep in mind this situation comes to the forefront in ONLY five (5) months!! Then what????
Governors and secretaries of state and others are preparing. They'll need to keep preparing to protect their states' elections. And after: investigations and prosecutions must begin. And for the record, I try to use adjectives and nouns not to insult but to be as accurate as I can.
The House & Senate Dems have been doing the same & “war gaming” a variety of potential interference efforts.
• https://www.ms.now/news/house-democrats-secret-game-plan-trump-midterm-meddling
• https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-and-senator-padilla-launch-first-ever-senate-election-observer-program-to-protect-2026-midterms-as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-free_fair-elections
In addition “The Senate is ramping up a program the House already had “Senate Democrats’ Election Observer Program will be similar to the long-running program in the House of Representatives and follows the October 2024 passage of the Confirmation of Congressional Observer Access (COCOA) Act, which confirmed the constitutional authority of Congress, specifically the Chair and Ranking Members of the Committee on House Administration and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to designate congressional election observers.”
Steven…I must apologize. I should have been more specific when replying to your original piece. I should have prefaced my comments by saying , “People must understand”. Then inserted my comment. The reason I subscribe to your writing is that it is intelligent, sensible, precise and speaks clearly to your chosen subject matter!
I have to admit to being quilty of becoming irrational when grown(?) people’s responses sound like imature children. I much prefer to read a short concise sentence than a paragraph of senseless “name calling”!
I watched Jim Acosta interview Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) tonight. She's a former CIA officer, spent her career alongside our military. She understands what foreign threats are and are not. Her advice to everyone who is responsible for election integrity is to get their game plan into action NOW, to have lawyers at the ready, the subpoenas, and judges on speed dial. There is no question that trump will try to overturn the election, even going so far as to seize the ballots (which is illegal, even in an "emergency.") So, it behooves us to put pressure on our local poll workers, secretaries of state, county and precinct officials to have a plan up and ready to go. The man is on the knife's edge of sanity, his grievances and venom growing by the day as the reality of the midterms continues to sink in. Rather than try to do his actual job, make good on his promises and conduct himself as a true statesman, he is busy tearing at the roots of democracy. Let's not let him do it! There are more of us than there are of them, even if he sics ICE and the National Guard on us at the polls. Vote by mail if you can. Maybe concerned and responsible vets will join forces on the ground, serving as a bulwark against any violence, protecting voters while they exercise our most precious franchise. We can't just look the other way while the republic is set on fire.
They're ALL bobblehead trolls ...
Limp dicks in Congress don’t help.