Every sentient being in the US who claims to love our country should go to the Project 2025 web page. it is truly scary.
And, why does everyone keep laying the blame for all this craziness at Trump's door...he's not near smart enough. Can we start substituting the Federalist Society (or ilk) for Trump?
Trump is calling for a bloodbath in front of people who stood to honor bloodshed. People who have just sung with coup criminals. People whom he implicitly promises he will pardon if they carry out another insurrection. And he is doing this in the fascist style of telling a big lie that confers martyrdom upon criminals who try to overthrow a democracy they associated with subhumans.
We should see Trump for what he is: an aspiring fascist who likes, wants, and needs violence.
The more self-restraint Judge Merchan shows, the more provocative, obnoxious and offensive Trump will become in openly baiting and taunting the judge to put him in jail. Trump's end-game is to broadcast, before the election, a photo-shoot of him behind bars, scripting himself as a victim and martyr sacrificing himself to preserve our liberties.
This is pure show-biz and a cheap stunt. While his antics may appeal to his cult followers, as he continues to ratchet them up, they will back-fire and reveal him to be a lot closer to a carnival hawker than a potential leader of the free world.
When will the American people see that this guy, deep-down, is little more than a vaudeville act?
They need to shave his head for lice and make him take a disinfecting shower, then weigh him, he can have all the photos he wants taken then. He might want to stay in jail rather than be seen for who he really is.
Thanks Linda. I will add overweight and pasty to my alphabetical list of adjectives. I already had crazy. And here’s ugly and repulsive for you to add to your list.
Stormy says he does that weird hair thing because without it he'd lose his power.
Shave away.
The peacock special on her broke my heart. Abused by a trailer park neighbor at 9, told by her mom to shut up. So she could continue to get the checks.
We watched Stormy’s Documentary also. We were left disturbed and saddened on one hand and encouraged on the other. She is a hero. I strongly suggest your readers watch it. You’ll be 💯% rooting for her to bring that filth down. I just wish she never has to hear his name again.
Not so much a vaudeville act. Deep down he is totally insecure. His sense of self worth depends upon the adoration of others, of his base. Without that he is nothing. He would self destruct if (and when) they turn away from him.
On Jan 6th while in the White House watching the attack of the Capital on tv he said ‘they are doing this all for me!’ It was the statement of insecure child in awe of how much his “fan base” “loved him’.
I could get behind(pardon the tiny bon mot)a total eclipse of trumpo, his cavity search and prison buzz cut never to hear from him or any of his buddies ever again. I fear, as Mary Trump said, even if trump were to disappear tomorrow, trumpism will be with us for a very long time to come.
What a sad, sad commentary on our nation. I know many former tffg supporters who say they won't vote for him, but still cling to much of his rhetoric. :-(
That Trump hates dogs speaks volumes about him. A dog treated with minimal decency offers pure love to its master. Who cannot respond to that? I wonder if this characteristic is considered by psychiatrists when they come to a diagnosis of malignant narcissism? (Stealing from kids with cancer corroborates that diagnosis.)
Wikipedia tells us: "The social psychologist Erich Fromm first coined the term "malignant narcissism" in 1964, describing it as a "severe mental sickness" representing "the quintessence of evil". He characterized the condition as "the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity""
SPEAKING OF MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN: IS SHE CHANNELING CHAMBERLAIN OR HITLER? She was quoted in the Washington Post today as saying: "Why doesn’t anyone in Washington talk about a peace treaty with Russia?? A deal with Putin promising he will not continue any further invasions." History teaches us about promises from fascist dictators.
In 1938, Hitler discussed his demand that Nazi Germany be permitted to slice off a piece of Czechoslovakia (on the claim that the German minority there was being persecuted, much like Russia's excuse for trying to dismember Ukraine).
Hitler promised that this was "the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe." The appeaser Chamberlain, in response to this promise, reneged on his commitment to defend Czechoslovakia and pressured that country to submit. Soon after Hitler swallowed up the rest of Czechoslovakia, and then followed his attack on Poland and then WW II.
Shouldn't Marjorie have to register as a foreign agent?
Prime Minister Chamberlain returned from Germany after a meeting with Hitler, saying “ I believe it is peace for our time.” Within a year Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia & Poland. Putin is promising the same if only he can annex Ukraine.
Funny story, my grandson who probably wishes he could tear his ears off from listening to his grandparents talk politics when he comes to visit, recently asked who MTG is. “She’s a screwball, what’s her deal?” he said. She’s a U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia. He said “No. Congresspeople don’t act like some kind of science fiction character…really?” “Yup, they do now.” That was not only shocking that he thought about it long enough to ask, but that he actually asked us!
Few “Congresspeople” act this way. But many Republicans. I wish commentators would t say “American politics” is dysfunctional when it is largely the GOP which has become an extremism cult.
Agreed Maria she’s mainly performing but I wouldn’t elevate what she does to call it “art.” “Hucksterism” maybe. They’re all trying to sell gullible people snake oil. A very old and tiresome tradition.
Makes me wonder where this individual was educated. Furthermore, this individual makes decisions that affect other citizens. As a retired public school teacher, the information needed in making a decision before telling others/affecting others, needs to be researched, doesn't it? HELLO!
Today's Washington Post seemed terrifying to me. I will be watching (hopefully) the eclipse from Vermont with my husband and friends tomorrow. We really need some joy right now. Love to all the good people here and much gratitude to Joyce.
It is important to see how she is using language here. A ‘deal’ promising no ‘further invasions’. In other words , a MAGA US military backed surrender of EU territories to Putin. This would be a dream come true for global oligarchs like Rupert Murdoch whose support and delivery of Brexit in the UK was specifically motivated to create a political bridgehead from which to break the postwar EU peace project and grab control of their special economic zone.
Trump saying he will only be dictator for a day is similar double talk. It would only take a day to politically and legally normalise a Christo fascist tyranny.
This land and powergrab by far right morbidly wealthy extremists has been unfolding for decades. Where it’s tactics have elided with monopolistic neo liberal capitalist ideology it has been invisible to most pragmatic politicians and academics. In the US, UK & to a lesser extent the UK Commonwealth countries too many have chosen to turn a blind eye to the environmental destruction and human suffering caused by forty years of unchecked gold rush style economic growth for the minority since 1971.
The now many generations of the left behind, the politically (& often literally) homeless, are the grief induced raging mob in both the US & Britain that Murdochian style mass and social media are rabble rousing with the MAGA flag.
We are in the end war of modern capitalism with the few extreme wealthy men ( and one woman now with Taylor Swift having recently become part of the global billionaire aristocracy), who desire complete control of the global human masses and their lands. Whether Trump wins, loses or just dies, that war will not end with him. He is simply its present day celebrity figure head.
"This land and power grab by far right morbidly wealthy extremists has been unfolding for decades."
Every time I read something like this, the abominable trifecta of Buckley (1976), Bellotti (1979) and Citizens United (2010) come to mind. The "power grab by far right morbidly wealthy extremists" was FACILITATED by this fatally corrupt Supreme Court, and could not have be accomplished without it.
Thank you Barbara and you are welcome to adopt it, but I cannot claim it as mine. It is a term the socio- economist Robert Reich has used when writing about the villains of our present Gilded Age 🐈⬛
“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.”
The struggle over people “of whom we know nothing” soon overwhelmed the world.”
Leadership is understanding the challenges of your time, not mistaking it for earlier events. And not flinching in the face of fascist challenges.
Yes of course. However at that point in time Hitler was attempting to annex a part of Czechoslovakia only. No one could know his future intentions. All so similar to today’s Putin-Ukraine desires.
But since Putin has already indicated that he wants to recreate the old Soviet empire, we know that will include getting the old Soviet ports on the Baltic back. Anyone who doesn't think that after Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia & Poland are next needs to Google "The Sudetenland, 1938".
Absolutely KMD, read RIichard Eberle’s fabulous work on the Sudetenland - I think it was published in 1988 or 1989. Behind the scenes today, Steve Bannon has been spending time with Orban to help Russia.
I don’t think that’s correct about Hitler ‘s intentions in 1938. I think he had earlier described Czechoslovakia as an artificial state, raged against Poland, and argued Germany needed lebensraum to the East. The Soviets certainly warned against st appeasing Hitler at the League of Nations, and sought to activate collective defense against Nazi Germany. Not to mention Hitler’s rage against France and England because of the Versailles terms that ended WW I , imposing a Draconian settlement on Germany. But France and England preferred appeasement.
Too much history compressed here! But everyone e wasn’t surprised Hitlerhad broader ambitions than a piece of Czechoslovakia.
I keep wondering when someone is going to do a detailed description of what like was like before Roe v. Wade (not just before Dobbs). Way too many people aren't old enough to remember the orphanages, the Willowbrooks, the baby mills, the newborns left. In trash bags in garbage bins, etc. It's not just the mothers who suffered by the thousands.
My Mom was the head of Family Planning in a county here in Michigan. Mom would have workshops at our home for the nurses and staff who worked there. One was on abortion and I remember pictures of women who bled out due to back alley abortions or self-induced abortions with coat hangers. Desperate women did desperate things when the law treated reproductive rights as criminal offenses and made abortions illegal.
I had a very young coworker before Roe that was newlywed and happily pregnant. Unfortunately, the baby died and she was forced to carry a dead baby to term. I will never forget her wearing maternity tops even though her belly was no longer getting bigger. She just came to work and did her job totally traumatized. 😢
"It's not just the mothers who suffered by the thousands." Any of us alive then will testify to this statement's truth. I personally watched the death and destruction of a family, one of my friends. Young men forced to quit school, some ran off and joined the military, unhappy forced marriages, un-cared for/unwanted babies abused and neglected... Need I go on?
I'll be watching the eclipse sitting on the seat of my zero-turn mower. It'll be dark for a few here in central Ohio. The Truth Social scam is a classic pump and dump. The bond in New York is another play for time by Trump. He's running out of options. But cornered rats are dangerous rats.
Usually pesto filling but you can sauté onions and garlic with ground ham, etc. - go crazy! Just keep filling to about 3-4T very fine or creamy; it is more flavored than filled.
I don't think a cream filling would work at 400 degrees, and so many cracks to spill out of. But it is the kind of experiment that can lead to a new family favorite...
I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you. I love how experts make something that is actually difficult and takes tools, space and skills to do look easy.
Now that I have my media credentials, I will get priority at the New York trial April 15 going forward. I’ll try and choose the more interesting days; presumably when Stormy testifies and her boyfriend is sitting across from her. Presumably and hopefully, she will be wearing something provocative. If my media creeds hold, I will be able to tap away live.
I wish I could raise my camera but I would be escorted out of court into a waiting paddy wagon. I know we don’t use that lexicon anymore. But I like the word. I know too, that I would love to stand up and shout something really nasty at TFG but that too would guarantee me a stay at Ryker’s Island.
Have you watched the documentary on Stormy? It's on peacock. Recovering from shoulder surgery and running out of Netflix, I put it on. Strong tough sad woman.
Drumpf raped her. Not in her mind, but his. Intent.
No. I’m not really interested but only in the headlines. She is a nothing burger as is TFG. It amazes me that so many are ignorant enough to register a protest vote for Trump not realizing how damaging and dangerous it is. On the other side, I’m amazed how dense Biden is to not sense disquiet in the population over his administration.
He's a Golda Mier fan of Israel. Loyal to a fault.
He really needs to defang Netanyahu.
But the entire MAGgot kkklan is all behind Israel. Time for him to choose.
And perhaps you would find some grace for Stormy Daniels . A child of trailer trash in Louisiana, raped by a neighbor at 9 and told to be quiet by her momma.
She's not quiet any more. She's had a tough life and it's made her tougher than I'll ever be.
The current yahoo of Israel is only the contemporary manifestation of self righteousness gone wrong. The US built the Jewish state. We were always proud of it. But it was done as Arabs were ethnically cleansed from their lands. We thought it was OK. Maybe it was and is called collateral damage. But out American Jewish lobby paid handsomely for their efforts by giving Israelis a green light to do whatever it has wanted and any criticism was met with being antisemitic.
The reality is that a real honest to goodness 2-state solution was and is the only option but not one in which the West Bank is not butchered into pieces. But when you have ultra orthodox clans turning their women into baby factories and the once minority slowly becomes a force to be reckoned with, the seeds are sown for continued war, murder, suffering mostly at the hands of the Jewish State that now behaves as their precursors did onto them in the last century. Do unto others as what has been done onto you. This pretty much sums up human history.
Thanks for the wonderful update. I'm one of those Texans who are just shaking our heads over the Ken Paxton deal. Most of the lawyers I know (including prosecutors) can't believe he even got past his impeachment hearing, much less got this rancid sweetheart deal. Guess it's good to have some billionaires in your pocket.
Joyce, I am a long time subscriber, but this is my first time commenting. I just heard a new song by Tim Grimm called Broken Truth that is the best anti-Trump song I have heard. The lyrics are inspired. I am hoping that you will feature it in your column and help it go viral as a way to possibly connect with those on the fence about voting. The song is on YouTube if I’m not successful in posting it here. To be clear, I do not know Tim and certainly have no direct or indirect financial interest in the song. I have no connection other than as a listener who was moved by the song.
Oh wow. Barry thank you so much for sharing this. I just cried my eyes out. My family is torn apart. My Mom and I aren't speaking. Damn that man like the song says. Beautiful song!! I will share it too. God Bless you. 💙🇺🇸
Barry, Sending the link for the song Broken Truth is a wonderful way to spread the word about this despicable person. Thanks for sharing the link. I will pass it on.
Thank you so much, Barry for such a relevant piece that talks to one's soul about everything that's happened wirh trump. I really appreciate the music as well as the words.
We are supposed to get a “Partial” eclipse starting at around 11:06am in Northern CA. I remember when we were young, we made boxes with a reflecting light, like a mirror, so we could envision the eclipses without looking at the sky.
I have very few words about Trump. I just wish, for once, that any judge rattles with him and locks him away for a few days, should he open his filthy mouth again. The video you provided, Joyce, I had seen and couldn’t watch all of it because the man narrating made me perfectly ill. There is a list somewhere showing who donated to Trump’s “campaign”. Don’t know why it’s taking us so long to acknowledge that the R Party should change their names to the Fascist Party.
I call her Sweaty Marge. I know it's not nice to do so, but it seems to suit her. I will never forget how she barreled after David Hogg and the other Parkland students in DC, snarling and harassing them for at least a city block.
I gotta admit, that dialogue of hers left me ROFLMAO. How can there be that big a pocket of voters anywhere who would elect her? Do they not realize how absolutely stupid she makes them look? I know, it's Georgia, but geez...
You're very welcome. By the way, I wasn't sure if you were kidding or not about the Emotional Support Chicken knitting kit, but darn (no pun intended) if I didn't find a bunch of pictures of finished, knitted Emotional Support Chickens. Love it!!!
Was not kidding. My sister and also a close friend are both crazy knitters! And I adored the kit chicken and the idea of it as a pet. I've never had the patience but I used to crochet and may try that one. I have had alpacas and I did love felting; same idea.
Gosh, I wish I was a knitter. Granted, I have yet to give it a proper go. A friend, a few years ago, tried to show me, but she did not have the patience or was not a good teacher. She just grabbed the knitting needles (?), and the yarn and whip, whip, whip and said that's it! I was as clueless as before. I am sure I can find plenty of YouTube videos and get started. I keep seeing more and more people I follow on various social media from multiple backgrounds, and it seems like many are knitting!
As Bill Clinton might say, I understand your pain... I have no patience for knitting; it seems you go on forever with nothing to show for it. The two closest women in my life are both master knitters. One of them thinks I might take to crocheting. She says it's quicker so you see a finished product faster, which sounds like it might suit me better. Probably shouldn't start with a chicken but hey that's what is drawing me so why not! Check your local library too as they often have knitting/reading groups in my neck of the woods. (I also want to learn to spin, but that's another story entirely...)
PS: I did manage to do a hat once, in an afternoon, on a bet with good teacher. But it takes a lot to create any kind of muscle memory for it.
Thank you Dear Joyce for this. I don’t know how you do it. Know you are a life line for me & many like me.
Oh yes. A lifeline is exactly what she is!! Thank you Joyce for all you do!
Thanks Joyce for keeping me abreast of the legal issues.
As for trump, the SOB needs to be in prison.
I'm getting disgusted at the inefficacy of the Justice system.
Why won't someone in Justice step up and take a stand?
Are they all afraid?
If anyone doubts what will happen if trump isn't jailed, read Project 2025.
I used to say Project 2025 scared me. Now, after reading it, I say it terrifies me.
Read it for yourself folks.
Nothing less than the future of our Nation is at stake!
I think you might like this
https://youtu.be/kRSNNrAfv3s?si=KF2j0ZYPHGusWJbs
Don't cry
Damn that man who tears this country apart!
He's got no shame,
He's got no soul,
He's got no poetry inside to make him whole.
Thanks, Jen Andrews, for this beautiful, so sad musical statement of truth. Cry, beloved country.
Thanks. I like it a lot. Gotta cry, though.
This is wonderful. Perfect. Hearfelt. And yeah, my eyes may have leaked. Jen Andrews, thank you for this.
Thank you for posting the link. I enjoyed it so much I bought it in iTunes for my phone.
Every sentient being in the US who claims to love our country should go to the Project 2025 web page. it is truly scary.
And, why does everyone keep laying the blame for all this craziness at Trump's door...he's not near smart enough. Can we start substituting the Federalist Society (or ilk) for Trump?
Project 2025 is brought to you by the Heritage Foundation. It reads like a fever dream from Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller et al.
If you haven't the time (or the stomach) to read the whole thing,
I've started a series of posts on it.
Each post is comprised of excerpts taken from a chapter of the project. You can find them at Polytricks.
Joyce and #SistersInLaw!!! Please don't miss what I feel is Joyce's main warning:
Re: Trump “knows we're in a war" and "he knows how to win."
And we are the enemy. Timothy Snyder sums up what's coming nicely in his Substack: Thinking About post: The Bloodbath Candidate.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-bloodbath-candidate?r=5k7fz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Excerpts:
Trump is calling for a bloodbath in front of people who stood to honor bloodshed. People who have just sung with coup criminals. People whom he implicitly promises he will pardon if they carry out another insurrection. And he is doing this in the fascist style of telling a big lie that confers martyrdom upon criminals who try to overthrow a democracy they associated with subhumans.
We should see Trump for what he is: an aspiring fascist who likes, wants, and needs violence.
The more self-restraint Judge Merchan shows, the more provocative, obnoxious and offensive Trump will become in openly baiting and taunting the judge to put him in jail. Trump's end-game is to broadcast, before the election, a photo-shoot of him behind bars, scripting himself as a victim and martyr sacrificing himself to preserve our liberties.
This is pure show-biz and a cheap stunt. While his antics may appeal to his cult followers, as he continues to ratchet them up, they will back-fire and reveal him to be a lot closer to a carnival hawker than a potential leader of the free world.
When will the American people see that this guy, deep-down, is little more than a vaudeville act?
They need to shave his head for lice and make him take a disinfecting shower, then weigh him, he can have all the photos he wants taken then. He might want to stay in jail rather than be seen for who he really is.
Not just a visual, a cavity search. Who knows where He might keep an extra baggy of meth?
Or some top secret documents.
Plenty of room in there.
And take away his makeup. With no weird hair and no bronzer, he's be just a crazy, overweight, pasty old white guy.
Thanks Linda. I will add overweight and pasty to my alphabetical list of adjectives. I already had crazy. And here’s ugly and repulsive for you to add to your list.
He always makes me think of Jabba the Hutt....
Kind of looks like a rotting walrus to me. In a baggy suit
Who chests at golf and everything else
Stormy says he does that weird hair thing because without it he'd lose his power.
Shave away.
The peacock special on her broke my heart. Abused by a trailer park neighbor at 9, told by her mom to shut up. So she could continue to get the checks.
We watched Stormy’s Documentary also. We were left disturbed and saddened on one hand and encouraged on the other. She is a hero. I strongly suggest your readers watch it. You’ll be 💯% rooting for her to bring that filth down. I just wish she never has to hear his name again.
Is that an orange soufflé on his head?
No, a dead ferret or two.
It looks like a dead squirrel to me
The law is the law and i say put him in jail no tv no media no contact no nothing
Not so much a vaudeville act. Deep down he is totally insecure. His sense of self worth depends upon the adoration of others, of his base. Without that he is nothing. He would self destruct if (and when) they turn away from him.
On Jan 6th while in the White House watching the attack of the Capital on tv he said ‘they are doing this all for me!’ It was the statement of insecure child in awe of how much his “fan base” “loved him’.
Put Fraud Trump behind bars!
A photo-shoot of him behind bars! Where do I sign up!
Just his luck, perhaps no cameras allowed??
Bummer.
Amen.
Thx Prof. We need a total eclipse of Trump. Peace all. Vote Blue.
I could get behind(pardon the tiny bon mot)a total eclipse of trumpo, his cavity search and prison buzz cut never to hear from him or any of his buddies ever again. I fear, as Mary Trump said, even if trump were to disappear tomorrow, trumpism will be with us for a very long time to come.
What a sad, sad commentary on our nation. I know many former tffg supporters who say they won't vote for him, but still cling to much of his rhetoric. :-(
MJAtlanta - as long as they don’t vote for him we’re good.
Trumpian is imbedded into the GOP!
1. When you prove to them that Trump hates dogs and stole from kids with cancer, they choke on their beer.
2. Converts. https://rvat.org/
3. We can outregister and crush him. https://www.fieldteam6.org/mission
That Trump hates dogs speaks volumes about him. A dog treated with minimal decency offers pure love to its master. Who cannot respond to that? I wonder if this characteristic is considered by psychiatrists when they come to a diagnosis of malignant narcissism? (Stealing from kids with cancer corroborates that diagnosis.)
Wikipedia tells us: "The social psychologist Erich Fromm first coined the term "malignant narcissism" in 1964, describing it as a "severe mental sickness" representing "the quintessence of evil". He characterized the condition as "the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity""
SPW - there will always be fruitcakes in the mix.
So true.
That’s anyone of your great lines, Mike!
Another one! Stupid auto correct
💙😎💙😎💙😎
SPEAKING OF MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN: IS SHE CHANNELING CHAMBERLAIN OR HITLER? She was quoted in the Washington Post today as saying: "Why doesn’t anyone in Washington talk about a peace treaty with Russia?? A deal with Putin promising he will not continue any further invasions." History teaches us about promises from fascist dictators.
In 1938, Hitler discussed his demand that Nazi Germany be permitted to slice off a piece of Czechoslovakia (on the claim that the German minority there was being persecuted, much like Russia's excuse for trying to dismember Ukraine).
Hitler promised that this was "the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe." The appeaser Chamberlain, in response to this promise, reneged on his commitment to defend Czechoslovakia and pressured that country to submit. Soon after Hitler swallowed up the rest of Czechoslovakia, and then followed his attack on Poland and then WW II.
Shouldn't Marjorie have to register as a foreign agent?
Prime Minister Chamberlain returned from Germany after a meeting with Hitler, saying “ I believe it is peace for our time.” Within a year Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia & Poland. Putin is promising the same if only he can annex Ukraine.
I will only add: “How horrible, fantastic, incredible” that a Republican would be echoing Hitler in 2024.
She's too dumb to know what she's saying and who she is parroting.
Empty Greene is a performance artist, not a legislator. And she’s not a very good performance artist, at that. Not at all believable.
Funny story, my grandson who probably wishes he could tear his ears off from listening to his grandparents talk politics when he comes to visit, recently asked who MTG is. “She’s a screwball, what’s her deal?” he said. She’s a U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia. He said “No. Congresspeople don’t act like some kind of science fiction character…really?” “Yup, they do now.” That was not only shocking that he thought about it long enough to ask, but that he actually asked us!
Few “Congresspeople” act this way. But many Republicans. I wish commentators would t say “American politics” is dysfunctional when it is largely the GOP which has become an extremism cult.
Agreed Maria she’s mainly performing but I wouldn’t elevate what she does to call it “art.” “Hucksterism” maybe. They’re all trying to sell gullible people snake oil. A very old and tiresome tradition.
Citizens who are misinformed, uneducated, and know nothing of history, make such statements.
Makes me wonder where this individual was educated. Furthermore, this individual makes decisions that affect other citizens. As a retired public school teacher, the information needed in making a decision before telling others/affecting others, needs to be researched, doesn't it? HELLO!
We wish.
Today's Washington Post seemed terrifying to me. I will be watching (hopefully) the eclipse from Vermont with my husband and friends tomorrow. We really need some joy right now. Love to all the good people here and much gratitude to Joyce.
I'm in Montpelier. The whole world seems to be here in our little state!
I hope you have a great eclipse experience!
It is important to see how she is using language here. A ‘deal’ promising no ‘further invasions’. In other words , a MAGA US military backed surrender of EU territories to Putin. This would be a dream come true for global oligarchs like Rupert Murdoch whose support and delivery of Brexit in the UK was specifically motivated to create a political bridgehead from which to break the postwar EU peace project and grab control of their special economic zone.
Trump saying he will only be dictator for a day is similar double talk. It would only take a day to politically and legally normalise a Christo fascist tyranny.
This land and powergrab by far right morbidly wealthy extremists has been unfolding for decades. Where it’s tactics have elided with monopolistic neo liberal capitalist ideology it has been invisible to most pragmatic politicians and academics. In the US, UK & to a lesser extent the UK Commonwealth countries too many have chosen to turn a blind eye to the environmental destruction and human suffering caused by forty years of unchecked gold rush style economic growth for the minority since 1971.
The now many generations of the left behind, the politically (& often literally) homeless, are the grief induced raging mob in both the US & Britain that Murdochian style mass and social media are rabble rousing with the MAGA flag.
We are in the end war of modern capitalism with the few extreme wealthy men ( and one woman now with Taylor Swift having recently become part of the global billionaire aristocracy), who desire complete control of the global human masses and their lands. Whether Trump wins, loses or just dies, that war will not end with him. He is simply its present day celebrity figure head.
"This land and power grab by far right morbidly wealthy extremists has been unfolding for decades."
Every time I read something like this, the abominable trifecta of Buckley (1976), Bellotti (1979) and Citizens United (2010) come to mind. The "power grab by far right morbidly wealthy extremists" was FACILITATED by this fatally corrupt Supreme Court, and could not have be accomplished without it.
Love your term 'morbidly wealthy', which I hadn't seen before, but will be adopting if you don't mind.
Thank you Barbara and you are welcome to adopt it, but I cannot claim it as mine. It is a term the socio- economist Robert Reich has used when writing about the villains of our present Gilded Age 🐈⬛
I take issue only with the date of the takeover wholly in favor of the wealthy.
It was Reagan, in 1981. Perhaps it's a typo as I can't think of what occurred in 1971.
I can understand why Chamberlain did so much to try to avoid a European war. It had been a scant twenty years since World War One. Can you imagine!
Here’s what Chamberlain famously said:
“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.”
The struggle over people “of whom we know nothing” soon overwhelmed the world.”
Leadership is understanding the challenges of your time, not mistaking it for earlier events. And not flinching in the face of fascist challenges.
Yes of course. However at that point in time Hitler was attempting to annex a part of Czechoslovakia only. No one could know his future intentions. All so similar to today’s Putin-Ukraine desires.
But since Putin has already indicated that he wants to recreate the old Soviet empire, we know that will include getting the old Soviet ports on the Baltic back. Anyone who doesn't think that after Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia & Poland are next needs to Google "The Sudetenland, 1938".
Absolutely KMD, read RIichard Eberle’s fabulous work on the Sudetenland - I think it was published in 1988 or 1989. Behind the scenes today, Steve Bannon has been spending time with Orban to help Russia.
I don’t think that’s correct about Hitler ‘s intentions in 1938. I think he had earlier described Czechoslovakia as an artificial state, raged against Poland, and argued Germany needed lebensraum to the East. The Soviets certainly warned against st appeasing Hitler at the League of Nations, and sought to activate collective defense against Nazi Germany. Not to mention Hitler’s rage against France and England because of the Versailles terms that ended WW I , imposing a Draconian settlement on Germany. But France and England preferred appeasement.
Too much history compressed here! But everyone e wasn’t surprised Hitlerhad broader ambitions than a piece of Czechoslovakia.
The stupid is strong with this one, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Oh! You mean Marjorie Taylor GANGRENE. The infection/infected spreader of stupid hate filled 'free speech.'
She is dangerously beyond uneducated and stupid to boot. Unless she does something really kookoo, she will be re-elected.
I keep wondering when someone is going to do a detailed description of what like was like before Roe v. Wade (not just before Dobbs). Way too many people aren't old enough to remember the orphanages, the Willowbrooks, the baby mills, the newborns left. In trash bags in garbage bins, etc. It's not just the mothers who suffered by the thousands.
My Mom was the head of Family Planning in a county here in Michigan. Mom would have workshops at our home for the nurses and staff who worked there. One was on abortion and I remember pictures of women who bled out due to back alley abortions or self-induced abortions with coat hangers. Desperate women did desperate things when the law treated reproductive rights as criminal offenses and made abortions illegal.
I had a very young coworker before Roe that was newlywed and happily pregnant. Unfortunately, the baby died and she was forced to carry a dead baby to term. I will never forget her wearing maternity tops even though her belly was no longer getting bigger. She just came to work and did her job totally traumatized. 😢
My mother literally went insane after that happened to her.
Oh no! I’m so sorry but sadly not surprised. What a horrible experience and it will be happening again😣
I’m so sorry that happened… I’m so sorry for your family’s pain. Sending warmth and light ….
And unfortunately many of their “men” took it upon themselves to cause abortions by beating women as well.
The only mention of abortion in the Bible is another man than husband causing an abortion.
The husband was entitled to compensation.
Just another reason to chuck that loathsome crap in the trash.
"It's not just the mothers who suffered by the thousands." Any of us alive then will testify to this statement's truth. I personally watched the death and destruction of a family, one of my friends. Young men forced to quit school, some ran off and joined the military, unhappy forced marriages, un-cared for/unwanted babies abused and neglected... Need I go on?
Congresswoman Barbara Lee is doing one right now on Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show
Since she went through it
Good idea.
I think the abortion issue will take the Presidency, House, and Senate majorities for Democrats.
Your lips to God's ears!
The exact words in my head!
Me too!!
I’m hoping you are correct, John
John Robinson - 🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸🗽
Please leave god out if it. That's the root of the suppression of women justification.
The Attorney General of the state of Texas is required to take 15 hours of Legal Ethics courses. Yeah, there’s so much in that sentence. smh
Trying to imagine what that looks like in Texas. Announce your intentions before shooting?
Who bets that Ken Paxton has been skipping his classes
I'll be watching the eclipse sitting on the seat of my zero-turn mower. It'll be dark for a few here in central Ohio. The Truth Social scam is a classic pump and dump. The bond in New York is another play for time by Trump. He's running out of options. But cornered rats are dangerous rats.
and they carry plague
Yea he did
😆😆
Everything he touches goes bankrupt
That pastry looks divine. What a great way to mark the eclipse!!
Is it sweet or savory? Flavor? Indeed divine!
Here's one - the concept is French, and very easy. Looks like Joyce's daughter did a scratch version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIF-6CFsYxk
Thank you Bonnie
Usually pesto filling but you can sauté onions and garlic with ground ham, etc. - go crazy! Just keep filling to about 3-4T very fine or creamy; it is more flavored than filled.
YUM!!!
Now y'all've got me hungry and it's only 7 AM! Do you think it would work with an Italian Pistachio Cream filling or would that get too messy?https://www.cucinabyelena.com/best-italian-pistachio-cream/
I don't think a cream filling would work at 400 degrees, and so many cracks to spill out of. But it is the kind of experiment that can lead to a new family favorite...
I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you. I love how experts make something that is actually difficult and takes tools, space and skills to do look easy.
Thank you, Bonnie!
Thank you Bonnie. Can't wait to try this recipe.
Now that I have my media credentials, I will get priority at the New York trial April 15 going forward. I’ll try and choose the more interesting days; presumably when Stormy testifies and her boyfriend is sitting across from her. Presumably and hopefully, she will be wearing something provocative. If my media creeds hold, I will be able to tap away live.
And discussing the defendant's er, equipment.
I wish I could raise my camera but I would be escorted out of court into a waiting paddy wagon. I know we don’t use that lexicon anymore. But I like the word. I know too, that I would love to stand up and shout something really nasty at TFG but that too would guarantee me a stay at Ryker’s Island.
Isn’t that what they made Monica do? Goose!gander time.
Bill Katz - what a picture you painted. 45 will be hissing all over the place. He may not be able to be contained. I wonder.
Have you watched the documentary on Stormy? It's on peacock. Recovering from shoulder surgery and running out of Netflix, I put it on. Strong tough sad woman.
Drumpf raped her. Not in her mind, but his. Intent.
No. I’m not really interested but only in the headlines. She is a nothing burger as is TFG. It amazes me that so many are ignorant enough to register a protest vote for Trump not realizing how damaging and dangerous it is. On the other side, I’m amazed how dense Biden is to not sense disquiet in the population over his administration.
He's a Golda Mier fan of Israel. Loyal to a fault.
He really needs to defang Netanyahu.
But the entire MAGgot kkklan is all behind Israel. Time for him to choose.
And perhaps you would find some grace for Stormy Daniels . A child of trailer trash in Louisiana, raped by a neighbor at 9 and told to be quiet by her momma.
She's not quiet any more. She's had a tough life and it's made her tougher than I'll ever be.
The current yahoo of Israel is only the contemporary manifestation of self righteousness gone wrong. The US built the Jewish state. We were always proud of it. But it was done as Arabs were ethnically cleansed from their lands. We thought it was OK. Maybe it was and is called collateral damage. But out American Jewish lobby paid handsomely for their efforts by giving Israelis a green light to do whatever it has wanted and any criticism was met with being antisemitic.
The reality is that a real honest to goodness 2-state solution was and is the only option but not one in which the West Bank is not butchered into pieces. But when you have ultra orthodox clans turning their women into baby factories and the once minority slowly becomes a force to be reckoned with, the seeds are sown for continued war, murder, suffering mostly at the hands of the Jewish State that now behaves as their precursors did onto them in the last century. Do unto others as what has been done onto you. This pretty much sums up human history.
Thanks for the wonderful update. I'm one of those Texans who are just shaking our heads over the Ken Paxton deal. Most of the lawyers I know (including prosecutors) can't believe he even got past his impeachment hearing, much less got this rancid sweetheart deal. Guess it's good to have some billionaires in your pocket.
I am also one of those Texans. So disgusting what goes on here. 😡
Congressman Colin Allred is taking his race really seriously, so I hope we all are too
https://twitter.com/mrwilliamjones/status/1776921811499774043?t=qGxXHKojIU0fGJA2jkGFKg&s=19
#BringBackBlueTexas
#WhenWeVoteWeWin
M - I viewed an interview of him on MSNBC and he seems sincere, genuine, committed and loves Texas. Fresh air a coming.
He also paid a visit to the Daily Show -- and since it was a slightly different demographic I was concerned, but he did great there as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtnYzqWtIKE
And you've absolutely right about how much he loves Texas. It's clear in every interview he gives.
The TX GOP is corrupt!
Trump called in his support during impeachment. And that’s the way it went.
Joyce, I am a long time subscriber, but this is my first time commenting. I just heard a new song by Tim Grimm called Broken Truth that is the best anti-Trump song I have heard. The lyrics are inspired. I am hoping that you will feature it in your column and help it go viral as a way to possibly connect with those on the fence about voting. The song is on YouTube if I’m not successful in posting it here. To be clear, I do not know Tim and certainly have no direct or indirect financial interest in the song. I have no connection other than as a listener who was moved by the song.
https://youtu.be/kRSNNrAfv3s?feature=shared
Oh wow. Barry thank you so much for sharing this. I just cried my eyes out. My family is torn apart. My Mom and I aren't speaking. Damn that man like the song says. Beautiful song!! I will share it too. God Bless you. 💙🇺🇸
I am so sorry to hear about you and your mom. He is a force of evil. Sadly, you’re not alone. I hope you eventually find reconciliation and peace.
Thank you Barry. I sure hope so too. November can't come soon enough. 🙏🏻🙌
Barry, Sending the link for the song Broken Truth is a wonderful way to spread the word about this despicable person. Thanks for sharing the link. I will pass it on.
Thank you for sharing that great song Barry. I will definitely share it.
Thank you. I sure hope it goes viral. There are millions of people that need to hear this song.
Thank you so much, Barry for such a relevant piece that talks to one's soul about everything that's happened wirh trump. I really appreciate the music as well as the words.
"Damn that man
He's got no shame
He's got no soul
He's got no poetry inside to make him whole..."
Says all you need to know, and sorrow spills from this song
Isn’t that a great lyric!!
A great lyric! Sadly...
Wow.
I'm no fan of country music, but this one...
"He's got no poetry inside to make him whole"
Music often makes me cry. We all should
Thanks for sharing the song. Grimm’s Facebook page seems available to all. https://m.facebook.com/timgrimmmusic
Thank You, Barry. Sharing this important song.
Thanks for all you do on a daily basis to keep us updated, Joyce.
Kudo’s to your daughter for the fabulous pastry👏👏👏
We are supposed to get a “Partial” eclipse starting at around 11:06am in Northern CA. I remember when we were young, we made boxes with a reflecting light, like a mirror, so we could envision the eclipses without looking at the sky.
I have very few words about Trump. I just wish, for once, that any judge rattles with him and locks him away for a few days, should he open his filthy mouth again. The video you provided, Joyce, I had seen and couldn’t watch all of it because the man narrating made me perfectly ill. There is a list somewhere showing who donated to Trump’s “campaign”. Don’t know why it’s taking us so long to acknowledge that the R Party should change their names to the Fascist Party.
You may not have seen this song. It has the words you need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRSNNrAfv3s
Marlene - scary concept. Maybe they will.
I've taken to referring to them as the Republifascists, abbreviated Rf.
Anybody who calls out the insanity of MTG is a friend of mine!
I call her Sweaty Marge. I know it's not nice to do so, but it seems to suit her. I will never forget how she barreled after David Hogg and the other Parkland students in DC, snarling and harassing them for at least a city block.
I gotta admit, that dialogue of hers left me ROFLMAO. How can there be that big a pocket of voters anywhere who would elect her? Do they not realize how absolutely stupid she makes them look? I know, it's Georgia, but geez...
She panders to their fears.
Not only Georgia, but Rome, Georgia,next door to Marietta where I grew up. No wonder I had a birthplace complex!
And folks will believe her! Back to the dark ages.
And mine as well.
If we're in this together, I want your daughter's recipe for that pastry!!!! Wow!!!
Where I am we'll get about 69% of totality. Friends are coming since I live at higher elevations. I made chili and ooey-gooey skillet brownies.
I also ordered an Emotional Support Chicken knitting kit...for a friend....
Yessss to the recipe!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great combo, suzc, with chili AND brownies!👍🏼👍🏼
You can find this comment above with the pastry recipe, but I copied it for you:
Bonnie MacEvoy
29 mins ago
Here's one - the concept is French, and very easy. Looks like Joyce's daughter did a scratch version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIF-6CFsYxk
Thank you! I love this group!
You're very welcome. By the way, I wasn't sure if you were kidding or not about the Emotional Support Chicken knitting kit, but darn (no pun intended) if I didn't find a bunch of pictures of finished, knitted Emotional Support Chickens. Love it!!!
https://www.instagram.com/theknittingtreela/p/CwkierqLAGl/
Was not kidding. My sister and also a close friend are both crazy knitters! And I adored the kit chicken and the idea of it as a pet. I've never had the patience but I used to crochet and may try that one. I have had alpacas and I did love felting; same idea.
Suzc - sweet gesture.
Gosh, I wish I was a knitter. Granted, I have yet to give it a proper go. A friend, a few years ago, tried to show me, but she did not have the patience or was not a good teacher. She just grabbed the knitting needles (?), and the yarn and whip, whip, whip and said that's it! I was as clueless as before. I am sure I can find plenty of YouTube videos and get started. I keep seeing more and more people I follow on various social media from multiple backgrounds, and it seems like many are knitting!
As Bill Clinton might say, I understand your pain... I have no patience for knitting; it seems you go on forever with nothing to show for it. The two closest women in my life are both master knitters. One of them thinks I might take to crocheting. She says it's quicker so you see a finished product faster, which sounds like it might suit me better. Probably shouldn't start with a chicken but hey that's what is drawing me so why not! Check your local library too as they often have knitting/reading groups in my neck of the woods. (I also want to learn to spin, but that's another story entirely...)
PS: I did manage to do a hat once, in an afternoon, on a bet with good teacher. But it takes a lot to create any kind of muscle memory for it.