One of the things that is most concerning to me is that Donald appears to be weaving down
Dementia Highway more every day. Corporate press makes it seem that he knows what he is talking about and "weaving" is his MO. I beg to differ. Weaving is something I have observed in dementia patients, including my now deceased husband, who was another weaver. However, he possessed a moral core and a commitment to the Constitution, whereas Donald has no moral core and his commitment is only to enrich himself and be in the spotlight. This is frightening--particularly since Republicans seem not to know or care. Dems are doing their best, but they lack the "power of the purse." Darkness descends. I am glad I can tune in to Rachel Maddow every night for the first hundred days. She is an excellent "sanity check."
I grew up in the U.S., thru college and then 5 years with a U.S. airline, but now live in the U.K. I so agree about Rachel Maddow - I watch her shows thanks to YouTube and she is magnificent! Listening to Trump’s word-salad ramblings, he clearly is suffering from dementia, as well as being a deeply immoral, dishonest, and ignorant man, who admires dictators. What I find so sickening, however, and I have had this belief for years now, is that Trump would not be in power today had he not been propped up by most of the GOP politicians in the first place! And many of those politicians. Including his current VP, once accused him of being a fascist, an insurrectionist and a liar… yet now they are in his government, repeating his lies and supporting his attack on democracy!
I cannot tell you how angry I am at the American people who voted for him, or refrained from voting at all - thereby letting him win - because Trump is now destroying not just the U.S. (a country that raised me and made me who I am today) but is also trying to destroy Europe in the process. I also have utter contempt for the GOP politicians who have sold their souls in order to keep their jobs! (Apologies for ranting & raving - I needed to get that out of my system.)
oh Alice...rant and rave away. I am sooo with you. I can't even look at his voters. I am so disgusted. I want to scream from the mountain tops to all of Europe to please not cave to this sick monster. I want England, France, Germany, all of them to know that so many of us do not support this and are actively trying to fight it. The GOP are dead to me.
The shame belongs to DJT and his enablers in Congress, the SCOTUS, and supporters. He is shameless. Actually, inside he knows he's doing horrible things but he passes that shame onto targeted groups like LGBTQ, migrants and gets extra jollies when he can denigrate and humiliate women and individual women.
It's a whole dynamic that we see play out.
Ukraine should not have to give up one square inch. Putin is DJT's master and Trump idolizes his ruthlessness. He needs to be tried in an international court and Russia should pay massive reparations.
Alice, I could not agree more strongly. It is sickening. He should have been impeached the first time. The number of people who couldn't be bothered to vote...Fox - spewing malicious nonsense all day, every day. And the large number of voters who have no concern at all for Ukraine. We knew if he came back to power, this would happen. And now it has. We have an illiterate electorate. And it will become worse after they dismantle the Department of Education. No FBI, no Health Department, no health information. And now worst of all, turning our backs on our allies. I am so ashamed.
The FCC enacted the Fairness Doctrine in 1949. Unfortunately the FCC abolished that doctrine in 1987. So, instead of equal time of differing views, FOX. and others sites spew blatant lies contributing to the polarization of the USA. Rupert Murdoch was fast-tracted for USA citizenship added to the countries he damaged with lies
It's important to remember that voter suppression played a role in the low Democratic turnout. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people were discouraged, intimidated, or otherwise prevented from voting.
Plus, he lied and lied and lied.....until some believed him. That's his m.o. I don't know why they would believe him though unless they are stupid. I'm so mad about this, I hate everybody who voted for him. I can't believe this is what the American people wanted....why?
The Media is to blame. The media loved the clown show drama with his first Presidential debates. He was disgusting- his mic. Should have been shut off many times. Second time the Media focused on the lack luster response from Biden instead of the Blatant lies from Trump. Now that more Media sources are owned by MAGA/wealthy conservatives, the reporters are suppressed or sued. It is outrageous how Media is paying multi million dollars and TV opinion people threatened financially for continuing to express their opinions as they have for years. This country is sliding into Authoritarian control of the news.
That margin would have obliterated if more Democrats voted, but that still would not have stopped the damage the Electoral Collage creates. Gore and Hillary would have been Presidents if not for the Electoral College. Gore/ Bush voting conflict in Florida. 3 alumni in that decision were awarded Supreme Court appointments: Roberts,, Amy Coney Barrett, and Kavanaugh. I do not understand why some Senators refused to hear additional female witnesses for Thomas and Kavanaugh. They both would have been disqualified if more women were allowed to testify. Of course the 'Old Boys Club' would have let that slied, that includes then Senator Biden for Thomas. I will start to rant in a moment, so ending my note
Margaret, for quite some time now, Democrats have had a purity test. If a candidate does not believe in exactly what the Dem voter does, they won't vote for that person. I don't think any candidate will ever be able to believe everything everyone in the party believes; it's not possible. There were many who were angry about Gaza, not thinking through it that Toddler-Trump would want to utterly destroy Gaza with his autocratic buddy Netanyahu. Why so many Dems did that is beyond comprehension. Another critical issue for me is were there let's say, irregularities with this election. Does anyone wonder that Toddler-Trump just happened to win every single "swing" state? And the margins were really small with a total vote of a tiny difference between candidates. Were mail-in ballots lost? Were machines tampered with, not so much that it would be obvious, but just enough to be sure Toddler-Trump won. These tech brats Toddler-Musk is letting root through our data know something about hacking. In short, Dems were too quick to just let things go. When Republicans accuse Democrats or anyone else of doing something that is wrong, it is a guarantee the Republicans themselves are doing it. We need to find ways to stop this treasonous activity ASAP!
I firmly believe it was the ABSTAINERS staying home who did the most damage. They have unrealistic expectations of candidates. I don't know how many of them were Democrats but it is absolutely INCONCEIVABLE to me how they believe their unrealistic ideals were more important than keeping trump out of the White House.😠
Do not accept what media says about the 2024 election. The results are the culmination of voter suppression tactics such as scrubbing voter rolls. Many Republican Congressional members are receiving death threats if they don’t comply. How else can you explain this irrational movement?
No apologies necessary...a good rant allows the " corpsuckles ." to race around our thoughts...then settle for the refuling cool-down , fresh contemplative moments.
Often wonder how our Mary keeps her cool when writing her words to us. To have to devote such inordinate time and energy to keep us at once informed...and keeping a lid on.her own sanity.IT CANNOT BE EASY!.Reading today's comments I became a bit uneasy..
Sitting st her desk, perhaps, considering thoughts...facts...interpretations..." putting quill to parchment "...sitting back silently to ponder what she has written... thoughts, ideas, feelings, ...made clear? Quite suddenly I was quite in awe of this courageous lady!
The enormity of what she must go through every moment she devotes to us...to informing us...helping us all to cope with these chaotic times...difficult...cathartic???
This is a member of her family...stop & think how gobsmacked you would feel if a member of your own family had perpetrated these unthinkably. cruel deeds against you?
You don't have a patent ranting & raving, Alice.
But you did bring to mind that I have never thanked Mary for all of her deepest personal heart of hearts she puts into these columns . How much of the very blood pumped through that gracious heart!
Thank you,Mary...from my heart to yours...God Bless you🙏💛
As a Brit, I don’t have any skin in the game but, I totally agree with everything you said especially about how the R’s are responsible for Trumps rise to the top & staying up there!
BUT, I am also very concerned as to why there seems to be a lack of any basic criticism of the Oompah Loompa from the Dems?? Why is that??
He is making ever more hateful comments about the supposed allies of the US?! How, in his tiny, vile mind, can he say that Ukraine started the war with their invasion of Russia?!
Apparently, he adores Churchill so would he call him a dictator as during WWII we held no elections!
He just doesn’t make any sense & is VERY stupid when it comes to history!
To top it all, the people who voted for him, (that are not in his “normal” base) to reduce groceries & inflation, must feel a tad embarrassed looking at Vance yesterday saying it’d take a while to reduce them when Dick said he’d bring it down from day 1 !!
It is a VERY concerning state of affairs all around!
People voting against their own interests. Trump's first round cost farmers billions of dollars with 'The Donald' paying millions of tax payer money to prevent further collapse. Many farmers lost their farms . I wouldnt be surprised if their farms were sold to Agriculture giants or to Realstate builders. Most of the family-farms have been sold in my county. The 'E' in DEI stands for equity in farming allowing small farmers to provide food for starving, disadvantaged countries. It is focused on race and gender to rouse up the uninformed.
I frequently have the memory of Trump stating in a speech, "I love the uneducated". It is Trump and his cronies who are misinformed, who do not listen to Economists and Scientists of many fields. He is pushing us toward another Great Depression and possibly a catastrophic wars. Putin and he ultra conservative 1% wealth-holders have been playing the long game for 50+ years. They want destroy the work of FDR, Johnson and Obama
Reminds me of former President Reagan. The last 4 years I repeatedly stated something is seriously wrong. He still was an actor at his core. It was his greatest role. No surprise when he was diagnosed with Dementia shortly after leaving the White House.
Musk and the MAGA tell him what to do and follows their direction.
No what it is is Musk makes Trump feel like he's on the level of the richest billionaires. These men are highly highly insecure and money and power is like a drug to them. Musk makes Trump feel like he's a big shot and important that is the only reason he's getting away with all this.
Small men borne into great wealth. We are tinker toys to them. Their maturation was suppressed by their circumstances instead of built up. A complete absence of empathy and understanding of the needs of the lower 90%-99% of the population
It's more complicated than that. DJT worships wealth. We saw it when he went to Saudi Arabia and saw their extreme, obscene wealth. He was wowed by that. Remember the photo of him with his hand on this shining glass globe?? It's the same for Putin, reportedly the world's richest man.
I survived by never once listening to him. But this time I can't completely quit reading about the horror. And I truly hope no real horror comes to any of us, though it seems standard with all dictatorships. Should we carry a cyanide pill?
I noticed that too. Not a word about how he might have cheated to win. Of course he did have 4 years to perfect his skill and change laws for voters in red states and stuff we'll never know. But boy that's all we heard when he lost. Where's the pushback, the resistance? Why did we let this happen without any questions? Beyond comprehension to me.
Kate, I have been saying this for quite some time too. I observed that with my mom, aunt and grandmother. They were good people, though, so their dementia meant they were losing it, but were not doing harm to others, actually appreciated everyone who was helping them. As you say, Toddler-Trump cares for and about no one but himself and needs the spotlight. I think that is because he needs to know a little of where he is and maybe who he is.
Really I don't agree. I think we need a new batch of liberal journalists. She's far too liberal and seems to be all in on the "woke" mindset so many on the left have embraced. I think the democratic party needs to move back to the middle and return it's focus on Everyday working Americans instead of pandering to a few small minority groups. I believe that we should support those groups of course but we should not be pushing identity politics like it's more important than the plight of the average American worker. Democrats loosing elections because of the pandering is causing far more suffering in those communities than switching the focus to be less on their issues. I'm a 45 yo male from Seattle and have been a democrat my entire life, I worked in a gay bar for years and have lived on capital hill for 20 years. I'm very left leaning but even I can see why the average person doesn't like the pandering and air of superiority that the woke crowd tends to display. I really think we need to stop with the Identity politics. You don't see any problems with these things in real life, it's only a issue on the internet. No one is not hiring people cause they're gay or trans or whatever. People are just people... i don't see any serious issues for LGBTQ and trans people on a level where we needed to focus the entire parties efforts towards lifting them up and completely ignoring the MANY more average American workers who are struggling to pay the rent every month. The priorities are wildly skewed compared to the size of the problem. IMO These DEI initiatives and all the pandering have done nothing but hurt the LGBTQ community because of the severe backlash from average Americans. I honestly don't think Trump would have even stood a chance whatsoever if they didn't have that anger on tap. I think that the people on the left are vastly underestimating the level at which this stuff has upset many many Americans.
I see thru your Bull. "She's far too liberal and seems to be all in on the "woke" mindset so many on the left have embraced." You appear to be a wolf in Democrat clothes. This is how Putin and his dis and mis information people work. Look like a fellow Dem to try to divide . Go away Mr Withers or whoever you really are.
lol this is the kind of crap that keeps new people away from the party. Who's dividing? I'm offering up my opinion. You just don't like it. because I think identity politics are doing more harm than good makes me a wolf in sheep's clothing? This is the reason so many people have turned away from the party. You cannot even express your opinion without getting dog piled on. it's so weak... I wonder how many strait white men thought to themselves, "these liberals clearly hate me... all I hear from the left is how I'm toxic and evil for being a white male. Trump seems to be on my side. I guess I'll vote for Trump". I'll give you a hint, not an insignificant amount...
If that’s what you hear you aren’t listening. We don’t think men are toxic and evil for being white, we think you are toxic and evil when you show your entire racist bigoted misogynistic asses to us. If you aren’t one of those white men you wouldn’t be so defensive about it. So maybe you are the problem, not the victim.
Matthew...are "liberals" really telling straight white males that they are toxic and evil? I live in blue Maryland. I have never heard any liberal convey this. It's also possible that right wing media is amplifying this and that is what people hear. It's hard to know what people across the country see and hear. Please inform.
The message is in the highlighted media, I don’t think the average person thinks this. Biden did what he thought the folks wanted and those disenfranchised made more noise.
Precisely which rights and privileges did white straight cisgender males lose under President Biden? Exactly how does highlighting the fact that some white straight cisgender males sorely need to work on improvement brand the entire group as toxic and evil? You wouldn't be the sort to lump every member of a social and/or ethnic group in with the bad ones, would you?
In all honesty I think you, like Matthew, might just be confusing an administration and political party that doesn't automatically center and cater to your demographic in all the things by default with one that intentionally and maliciously disenfranchises you.
And that all of the white straight cisgender males who voted for Trump because of that are going to find out what real disenfranchisement looks like under a sorry excuse for a leader who only needed them and pretended to be on their side for their vote. The only demographics he truly cares about are billionaires and/or whomever he thinks he can make use of in some way, and only then for as long as their usefulness and wallets keep providing.
I can't help but notice how so many of these "alt Left" white males bleat the same "it's identity politics, it's pandering, it's too woke!" sentiments whenever a proposed platform or policy doesn't center white (cisgender heterosexual) males by default (or, y'know, so much as acknowledges that OTHER demographics with their own unique concerns and struggles exist and deserve to be addressed TOO.)
How, when it's a matter that concerns a group you are a part of, it's valid and needs to be treated as paramount, but when it's something that concerns a group you are NOT a part of, it's some unimportant pandering woke niche issue that is only ever brought up to make your group feel bad (I mean why ELSE could anyone POSSIBLY bring up issues of systemic inequity, injustice, bigotry, prejudice, abuse of power, etc. if not to make white males FEEL bad?! /s)
I also can't help but notice how it took as little as "Dems r being meen 2 us 🥺😭" to get the aforementioned "alt Left" white males to "turn away" from the party and catapult themselves allllllllllllll the way into the OTHER extreme of supporting literal fascism at the (tiny)hands of an unhinged demented fatally moronic manchild with aspirations of becoming the first god-king of America.
Doesn't sound like they had far to go to "turn away" from the party if that's all it took. One might argue that they were already on their way out the door and are using "woke identity man-hating politics PUSHED me away" as their excuse to do what they wanted to do in the first place.
Boy, Kate Madison: To your entire comment - I empathetically hear you. My mom and sister had dementia, not the obvious severe symptoms as many but there was, of course, a noticeable division between 'reality' and 'the dementia world'. I too feel, see this division in donny and it is frightening. Musk scares me as well with his grimaces of delight which seem to acknowledge he knows his 'chainsaw' actions are ripping apart painfully (for us) our government but are shoving dollars into his already overflowing income profits. To dear Rachel, my gratitude also for her positive slant and supporting facts on the way for us to act to aid in our revolt against donny & co and in so doing take away at least some of the pain of sitting, only watching, listening, hearing donny & co destroying America. I plan my day around MSNBC especially these days starting with Joy Reid right through Stephanie Ruhle. I 'tried' to communicate with a gentleman who works where I live a few days ago - one of the 29% still staunch donny supporters. I felt as if I'd literally hit a brick wall. The most stuck-thinking, cemented Trump believer I'd ever met. He spewed cliche after cliche supporting his 127% belief in Trump. If I hadn't been informed by the MSNBC journaling team of the wide dynamics of opposition to this gentleman's spewed thoughts (regurgitated ideals drilled into Trumpheads), supportive-thinkers who I'd heard interviewed, experts and their perspective views (on MSNBC and more in recent books I'd reviewed), I really don't know how I would have reacted to this man's admiration for trumpinski inbthe quiet of my home. My point after all this: Boy do I admire Rachel too, Kate, and appreciate her understanding of how easy it would be for many of her viewers to feel crushed by those folks brainwashed by an idiot. There doesn't appear to be any way to 'reason' with a Trump dug-in follower. The followers seem to enjoy the 'freedom?' from thinking - at all. They're stuck admiring the Wizard of Idiocy. From that standpoint, we (followers of Rachel and her lessons showing us a variety of paths to take to broaden our perspectives all the while protesting, taking actions that just might help make possible the deflating, crumbling of the efforts Trump & misfits are dramatizing how to turn 250+ years into, so far, days of their fun fascist foibles. Not on our watch, Trumpinski.
Again, typical from a small, revengeful man and terrifying if you think that the SCOTUS added unchecked powers to the already unique power that he possesses as the president of the United States of America! Praying for President Zelensky and Europe to stay their ground for a safer world.
There is absolutely NO POINT in reminding Trump or Putin about ANY agreements or treaties signed in the past because neither of them cares about them! Thinking they have a moral compass is believing in fairy tales…
This is true. It’s pointless to keep thinking someone or something will make these two and their enablers change. It’s not pessimism, it’s the truth. The media has to find something to talk about but telling us OMG what this pathetic little man is saying he’ll do is only DOING What Ffftrump wants them to do, to repeat the insulting nicknames and slogans he creates every time he has a minute to “think” perhaps while he craps in his golden 🚽 He creates the rumors, he frames the message and the most outrageous, the happier he is because he put us all in despair. He loves it!! I’d love to see some day the bosses of the WH correspondents tell them not to ask him anything, or to ask him silly questions (not that they’re ever smart but you know what I mean) and NO PICTURES! Look at him with their most boring eyes and record him with their phones but don’t extend your hand, pull a little note pad and say can you repeat that? Hahaha he’ll miss the flashes because he thinks he’s in the boardroom of the Apprentice with everyone begging him to stay in his game. Idiot!
Viv, I believe that T's years in reality TV are at the root of all his outward appearances. I wish everyone could see this is acting, not actually sincerity.
It would SHAME him. How can ANYONE believe Putin will hold to any “negotiation “ when he violated the Budapest Memorandum that promised Russia would respect Ukraine as a sovereign country. They did not.
Trump does care about what people think. He doesn’t want to be a “loser.” He cares about crowd size. That shows he cares about opinion.
BTW, why doesn’t the media correct him when he says his polls are very high? It’s the opposite. His polls are tanking.
You think they care about any of that? These men are on the verge of breaking the constitution to do what they please and you think some memorandum is going to make them switch up on their agenda??? Come on...
This is what the far left just does not get. We will NEVER win back power because they expect us to be simping weinies and if we are not we are lumped into part of the problem. This is the biggest reason Trump won, the wokeness, the pandering, and the strait white male hating.
Totally disagree, Matthew. Democrats lost because people wouldn't vote for a Black female. Period. Call that identity politics if it makes you feel better. America has a racist, misogynistic majority. I'm a 74 yo white woman, and I'll die on this hill about this election.
I'm not dumb enough to believe that wasn't a big part as well, but I know these people. My entire family is Trump supporters, I'm a gamer and there's a huge movement trying to get wokeness out of games and it's huge. I'm telling you that is the main reason. I think the trans stuff is way more off-putting to these people than the race stuff. WAY more.
This is the kind of nonsense that is the reason Trump is in power... unbelievable. You male hating feminists are really something else. If you think far left radical feminists are getting into power anytime soon I got some news for you...
Those who are unfortunately insecure enough to think like you do would explain why this country stays stuck in the past when it comes to electing women leaders. 🤨
This is a human tragedy that's epic in its scope and horror, and we, the America people, are its authors. I speak regularly with a friend in Ukraine, who until this week, bravely has maintained the U.S. would honor its agreements and stand by his country. Now, he doesn't answer my texts or emails and while I hope it's because he's been too busy, safeguarding his family, to respond, I fear he's lost all faith in us--deservedly so.
For some time, I've believed hatred to be an ultimately self-destructive emotion; hate is spiritually corrosive and damages the one who holds it in their heart at least as much as it harms others. Now, however? I struggle with hatred for that lying sack of shit, that orange whore, that miserable specimen representing itself as a human being and, I suspect, I'm not the only one.
He truly is evil incarnate. we should all be mobilizing as much as possible. Organize protests. We need to take this into the streets. It's the only way.
Where are all those republicans who have been recently fired and voted for him? Why aren’t they protesting in the streets? How many firefighters, policemen, federal workers, people whose organizations are getting their funds cut? Families or neighbors deported but hey! They wanted to “protest” Biden’s policies so they didn’t vote for Kamala… ? what the hell were they thinking the 🍊monster would do for them? Just finding out the damage he is causing is no longer funny and answering polls saying that they disapprove of his handling of every single issue is NOT enough!
It should raise National concern Trump is siding with Russia, our ADVERSARY instead of our ally, Ukraine who we COMMITTED to aide in an attack by signing the “Budapest Memorandum”(along with the UK, Northern Ireland & Russia) in exchange for their giving up their HUGE supply of nuclear weapons to Russia.
Now both countries are reneging.
Does Trump or anyone remember this signed Budapest Memorandum from December 5, 1994?? How come the reporters aren’t questioning Trump about this on the news?
If Ukraine had kept the nuclear weapons, they would still have Crimea & ALL of Ukraine. Putin would never have attacked them. There would have been no war, no deaths, no lay out of $350 billion.
Trump is dumb and a liar.
Putin is smart and a liar.
We should have stopped Russia when they attacked Ukraine during the Obama administration. Big mistake.
If we don’t support Ukraine now, the United States loses all credibility. No one will come to our rescue because they won’t believe the United States will come to theirs.
Marlo, sadly, the ship of credibility has sailed from these 'trumpist states' on Jan, 20th, 2025.
Europe now is realizing that they will need to strengthen their valued alliances and operate aside from t. since he is now one of Putin's and bin Salman's little satellites.
I don’t know how to contact Rachel Scott. Does anyone? It would be great if she could point this out on national TV David Muir’s “World News”.
Actually, I have a few statements she could make. Like pointing out that his polls are tanking. (They let him say they are “very high” and no one disputes it).
There’s still no investigation into the means by which Russian psyops disinformation has turned 1/3 to 1/2 of the US population into a cult repeating insane lies and hatred and voting accordingly. There’s a science and a method to psyops warfare and America has been conquered by it, yet still almost nobody knows it happened, much less how it happened.
No doubt Rupert piled on the pathological lies and hatreds, but for Vladimir it's about attacking and destroying our civility, the rule of law, and all the institutions and social contracts that make up our cohesion as a democratic society. His aim is to destroy the power of America's military and our example as a free and thriving democratic people. And all with minimal public perception that he was behind it. Robert Mueller exposed a tiny bit of Putin's tactics up to 2016, but his infiltration into the minds of Americans has metastasized exponentially since then.
this. all of this can be traced back to fox news, every last bit of it. Fox news has done more harm to this country than any country or politician ever has.
President Zelenskyy did not do Donald Trump's bidding during Trump’s first term and investigate President Biden and family. Impeachment followed. This puts Zelenskyy high up on Trump's hit list. Withdrawing US support from Ukraine doesn't have a lot to do with foreign policy. This is personal.
And Saudi Arabia of all places! Has anyone forgotten who flew airliners into the twin towers on 9/11? Plus, Saudi Arabia is not democratic in the least. But then Russia and the US don’t care in the least.
You said it Mary, the pressure is Up and so is mine. I need to take blood pressure meds now, thanks to your uncle. I hope the New Health director doesn't get rid of them. Unbelievable bullshit, Thank You, Mary, keep em' Coming sweetheart, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍
Thanks for this column Mary, it’s insightful and honest look of where America is barreling at light speed. Your steady hand with your insiders knowledge needs to be shouted from every rooftop! Wake up maga turds, dumptrump is killing America, the mane is fully insane.
It’s only day 30 of the first 100 days in office. Unbelievable, what is next ?
DJT is a pathological liar, can not keep his stories straight. Shutting down the government, mass layoffs , took over the Kennedy Center , briefly closed the JFK Presidential Library due to layoffs of essential government staff, the Health of the World is in Jeopardy, NIH critical research is on hold or has been terminated, People in NIH Clinical Trials are unable to continue due to shut down of studies, especially in Africa, he decimated the CDC and NIH Websites, no longer to advertise availability of vaccines etc. , FDA and HHS is in disarray, Medicaid-Medicare - Social Security are at risk of being decimated and the list goes on and on and on. As a result of DOGE efforts, inflation and unemployment will soar, however he will blame it on the prior administration. He is sowing the seeds of political violence and civil disobedience. When will America wake up ! What will it take ? It’s going to get worse, so hang on.
And thanks to cutting edge research this effing abomination survived what would have been a fatal case of covid. But he deserves the best and fcuk the rest of us.
One of the things that is most concerning to me is that Donald appears to be weaving down
Dementia Highway more every day. Corporate press makes it seem that he knows what he is talking about and "weaving" is his MO. I beg to differ. Weaving is something I have observed in dementia patients, including my now deceased husband, who was another weaver. However, he possessed a moral core and a commitment to the Constitution, whereas Donald has no moral core and his commitment is only to enrich himself and be in the spotlight. This is frightening--particularly since Republicans seem not to know or care. Dems are doing their best, but they lack the "power of the purse." Darkness descends. I am glad I can tune in to Rachel Maddow every night for the first hundred days. She is an excellent "sanity check."
I grew up in the U.S., thru college and then 5 years with a U.S. airline, but now live in the U.K. I so agree about Rachel Maddow - I watch her shows thanks to YouTube and she is magnificent! Listening to Trump’s word-salad ramblings, he clearly is suffering from dementia, as well as being a deeply immoral, dishonest, and ignorant man, who admires dictators. What I find so sickening, however, and I have had this belief for years now, is that Trump would not be in power today had he not been propped up by most of the GOP politicians in the first place! And many of those politicians. Including his current VP, once accused him of being a fascist, an insurrectionist and a liar… yet now they are in his government, repeating his lies and supporting his attack on democracy!
I cannot tell you how angry I am at the American people who voted for him, or refrained from voting at all - thereby letting him win - because Trump is now destroying not just the U.S. (a country that raised me and made me who I am today) but is also trying to destroy Europe in the process. I also have utter contempt for the GOP politicians who have sold their souls in order to keep their jobs! (Apologies for ranting & raving - I needed to get that out of my system.)
oh Alice...rant and rave away. I am sooo with you. I can't even look at his voters. I am so disgusted. I want to scream from the mountain tops to all of Europe to please not cave to this sick monster. I want England, France, Germany, all of them to know that so many of us do not support this and are actively trying to fight it. The GOP are dead to me.
I so agree. I am deeply ashamed of my country.
The shame belongs to DJT and his enablers in Congress, the SCOTUS, and supporters. He is shameless. Actually, inside he knows he's doing horrible things but he passes that shame onto targeted groups like LGBTQ, migrants and gets extra jollies when he can denigrate and humiliate women and individual women.
It's a whole dynamic that we see play out.
Ukraine should not have to give up one square inch. Putin is DJT's master and Trump idolizes his ruthlessness. He needs to be tried in an international court and Russia should pay massive reparations.
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Alice, I could not agree more strongly. It is sickening. He should have been impeached the first time. The number of people who couldn't be bothered to vote...Fox - spewing malicious nonsense all day, every day. And the large number of voters who have no concern at all for Ukraine. We knew if he came back to power, this would happen. And now it has. We have an illiterate electorate. And it will become worse after they dismantle the Department of Education. No FBI, no Health Department, no health information. And now worst of all, turning our backs on our allies. I am so ashamed.
Patty, The Convicted Felon (TCF) was impeached not once, but twice. But he was not CONVICTED in either instance. Please study your nomenclature.
The FCC enacted the Fairness Doctrine in 1949. Unfortunately the FCC abolished that doctrine in 1987. So, instead of equal time of differing views, FOX. and others sites spew blatant lies contributing to the polarization of the USA. Rupert Murdoch was fast-tracted for USA citizenship added to the countries he damaged with lies
I was shocked at the poor Democrat turnout for voting. They did this to us.
It's important to remember that voter suppression played a role in the low Democratic turnout. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people were discouraged, intimidated, or otherwise prevented from voting.
Plus, he lied and lied and lied.....until some believed him. That's his m.o. I don't know why they would believe him though unless they are stupid. I'm so mad about this, I hate everybody who voted for him. I can't believe this is what the American people wanted....why?
The Media is to blame. The media loved the clown show drama with his first Presidential debates. He was disgusting- his mic. Should have been shut off many times. Second time the Media focused on the lack luster response from Biden instead of the Blatant lies from Trump. Now that more Media sources are owned by MAGA/wealthy conservatives, the reporters are suppressed or sued. It is outrageous how Media is paying multi million dollars and TV opinion people threatened financially for continuing to express their opinions as they have for years. This country is sliding into Authoritarian control of the news.
Wrong! Trump won by a small percentage over Harris. Actual Voting statistics were today’s paper!
That margin would have obliterated if more Democrats voted, but that still would not have stopped the damage the Electoral Collage creates. Gore and Hillary would have been Presidents if not for the Electoral College. Gore/ Bush voting conflict in Florida. 3 alumni in that decision were awarded Supreme Court appointments: Roberts,, Amy Coney Barrett, and Kavanaugh. I do not understand why some Senators refused to hear additional female witnesses for Thomas and Kavanaugh. They both would have been disqualified if more women were allowed to testify. Of course the 'Old Boys Club' would have let that slied, that includes then Senator Biden for Thomas. I will start to rant in a moment, so ending my note
Go away
Stop posting stupid stuff.
Margaret, for quite some time now, Democrats have had a purity test. If a candidate does not believe in exactly what the Dem voter does, they won't vote for that person. I don't think any candidate will ever be able to believe everything everyone in the party believes; it's not possible. There were many who were angry about Gaza, not thinking through it that Toddler-Trump would want to utterly destroy Gaza with his autocratic buddy Netanyahu. Why so many Dems did that is beyond comprehension. Another critical issue for me is were there let's say, irregularities with this election. Does anyone wonder that Toddler-Trump just happened to win every single "swing" state? And the margins were really small with a total vote of a tiny difference between candidates. Were mail-in ballots lost? Were machines tampered with, not so much that it would be obvious, but just enough to be sure Toddler-Trump won. These tech brats Toddler-Musk is letting root through our data know something about hacking. In short, Dems were too quick to just let things go. When Republicans accuse Democrats or anyone else of doing something that is wrong, it is a guarantee the Republicans themselves are doing it. We need to find ways to stop this treasonous activity ASAP!
Margaret:
I firmly believe it was the ABSTAINERS staying home who did the most damage. They have unrealistic expectations of candidates. I don't know how many of them were Democrats but it is absolutely INCONCEIVABLE to me how they believe their unrealistic ideals were more important than keeping trump out of the White House.😠
Do not accept what media says about the 2024 election. The results are the culmination of voter suppression tactics such as scrubbing voter rolls. Many Republican Congressional members are receiving death threats if they don’t comply. How else can you explain this irrational movement?
Alice...
No apologies necessary...a good rant allows the " corpsuckles ." to race around our thoughts...then settle for the refuling cool-down , fresh contemplative moments.
Often wonder how our Mary keeps her cool when writing her words to us. To have to devote such inordinate time and energy to keep us at once informed...and keeping a lid on.her own sanity.IT CANNOT BE EASY!.Reading today's comments I became a bit uneasy..
Sitting st her desk, perhaps, considering thoughts...facts...interpretations..." putting quill to parchment "...sitting back silently to ponder what she has written... thoughts, ideas, feelings, ...made clear? Quite suddenly I was quite in awe of this courageous lady!
The enormity of what she must go through every moment she devotes to us...to informing us...helping us all to cope with these chaotic times...difficult...cathartic???
This is a member of her family...stop & think how gobsmacked you would feel if a member of your own family had perpetrated these unthinkably. cruel deeds against you?
You don't have a patent ranting & raving, Alice.
But you did bring to mind that I have never thanked Mary for all of her deepest personal heart of hearts she puts into these columns . How much of the very blood pumped through that gracious heart!
Thank you,Mary...from my heart to yours...God Bless you🙏💛
Believe me, I fully understand the need to vent! I’m terrified.
You’re absolutely 💯 right it’s unfathomable and we wake up every day hoping it’s only been a nightmare but nope, it’s true. He was made POTUS 😱
Sickening indeed. Take care!
As a Brit, I don’t have any skin in the game but, I totally agree with everything you said especially about how the R’s are responsible for Trumps rise to the top & staying up there!
BUT, I am also very concerned as to why there seems to be a lack of any basic criticism of the Oompah Loompa from the Dems?? Why is that??
He is making ever more hateful comments about the supposed allies of the US?! How, in his tiny, vile mind, can he say that Ukraine started the war with their invasion of Russia?!
Apparently, he adores Churchill so would he call him a dictator as during WWII we held no elections!
He just doesn’t make any sense & is VERY stupid when it comes to history!
To top it all, the people who voted for him, (that are not in his “normal” base) to reduce groceries & inflation, must feel a tad embarrassed looking at Vance yesterday saying it’d take a while to reduce them when Dick said he’d bring it down from day 1 !!
It is a VERY concerning state of affairs all around!
I’m so sorry for the novel!! x
People voting against their own interests. Trump's first round cost farmers billions of dollars with 'The Donald' paying millions of tax payer money to prevent further collapse. Many farmers lost their farms . I wouldnt be surprised if their farms were sold to Agriculture giants or to Realstate builders. Most of the family-farms have been sold in my county. The 'E' in DEI stands for equity in farming allowing small farmers to provide food for starving, disadvantaged countries. It is focused on race and gender to rouse up the uninformed.
I frequently have the memory of Trump stating in a speech, "I love the uneducated". It is Trump and his cronies who are misinformed, who do not listen to Economists and Scientists of many fields. He is pushing us toward another Great Depression and possibly a catastrophic wars. Putin and he ultra conservative 1% wealth-holders have been playing the long game for 50+ years. They want destroy the work of FDR, Johnson and Obama
Reminds me of former President Reagan. The last 4 years I repeatedly stated something is seriously wrong. He still was an actor at his core. It was his greatest role. No surprise when he was diagnosed with Dementia shortly after leaving the White House.
Musk and the MAGA tell him what to do and follows their direction.
No what it is is Musk makes Trump feel like he's on the level of the richest billionaires. These men are highly highly insecure and money and power is like a drug to them. Musk makes Trump feel like he's a big shot and important that is the only reason he's getting away with all this.
These have always been small men.
Small men borne into great wealth. We are tinker toys to them. Their maturation was suppressed by their circumstances instead of built up. A complete absence of empathy and understanding of the needs of the lower 90%-99% of the population
That Russian fellow largely feeds the orange one’s ego.
It's more complicated than that. DJT worships wealth. We saw it when he went to Saudi Arabia and saw their extreme, obscene wealth. He was wowed by that. Remember the photo of him with his hand on this shining glass globe?? It's the same for Putin, reportedly the world's richest man.
I survived by never once listening to him. But this time I can't completely quit reading about the horror. And I truly hope no real horror comes to any of us, though it seems standard with all dictatorships. Should we carry a cyanide pill?
I shut the sound off when someone plays a clip of him. I can't stand his face, manner, and voice.
Don't give into fear.
I noticed that too. Not a word about how he might have cheated to win. Of course he did have 4 years to perfect his skill and change laws for voters in red states and stuff we'll never know. But boy that's all we heard when he lost. Where's the pushback, the resistance? Why did we let this happen without any questions? Beyond comprehension to me.
NO!! I appreciate the sentiment, but that is too extreme.
Kate, I have been saying this for quite some time too. I observed that with my mom, aunt and grandmother. They were good people, though, so their dementia meant they were losing it, but were not doing harm to others, actually appreciated everyone who was helping them. As you say, Toddler-Trump cares for and about no one but himself and needs the spotlight. I think that is because he needs to know a little of where he is and maybe who he is.
Really I don't agree. I think we need a new batch of liberal journalists. She's far too liberal and seems to be all in on the "woke" mindset so many on the left have embraced. I think the democratic party needs to move back to the middle and return it's focus on Everyday working Americans instead of pandering to a few small minority groups. I believe that we should support those groups of course but we should not be pushing identity politics like it's more important than the plight of the average American worker. Democrats loosing elections because of the pandering is causing far more suffering in those communities than switching the focus to be less on their issues. I'm a 45 yo male from Seattle and have been a democrat my entire life, I worked in a gay bar for years and have lived on capital hill for 20 years. I'm very left leaning but even I can see why the average person doesn't like the pandering and air of superiority that the woke crowd tends to display. I really think we need to stop with the Identity politics. You don't see any problems with these things in real life, it's only a issue on the internet. No one is not hiring people cause they're gay or trans or whatever. People are just people... i don't see any serious issues for LGBTQ and trans people on a level where we needed to focus the entire parties efforts towards lifting them up and completely ignoring the MANY more average American workers who are struggling to pay the rent every month. The priorities are wildly skewed compared to the size of the problem. IMO These DEI initiatives and all the pandering have done nothing but hurt the LGBTQ community because of the severe backlash from average Americans. I honestly don't think Trump would have even stood a chance whatsoever if they didn't have that anger on tap. I think that the people on the left are vastly underestimating the level at which this stuff has upset many many Americans.
I see thru your Bull. "She's far too liberal and seems to be all in on the "woke" mindset so many on the left have embraced." You appear to be a wolf in Democrat clothes. This is how Putin and his dis and mis information people work. Look like a fellow Dem to try to divide . Go away Mr Withers or whoever you really are.
lol this is the kind of crap that keeps new people away from the party. Who's dividing? I'm offering up my opinion. You just don't like it. because I think identity politics are doing more harm than good makes me a wolf in sheep's clothing? This is the reason so many people have turned away from the party. You cannot even express your opinion without getting dog piled on. it's so weak... I wonder how many strait white men thought to themselves, "these liberals clearly hate me... all I hear from the left is how I'm toxic and evil for being a white male. Trump seems to be on my side. I guess I'll vote for Trump". I'll give you a hint, not an insignificant amount...
If that’s what you hear you aren’t listening. We don’t think men are toxic and evil for being white, we think you are toxic and evil when you show your entire racist bigoted misogynistic asses to us. If you aren’t one of those white men you wouldn’t be so defensive about it. So maybe you are the problem, not the victim.
Matthew...are "liberals" really telling straight white males that they are toxic and evil? I live in blue Maryland. I have never heard any liberal convey this. It's also possible that right wing media is amplifying this and that is what people hear. It's hard to know what people across the country see and hear. Please inform.
The message is in the highlighted media, I don’t think the average person thinks this. Biden did what he thought the folks wanted and those disenfranchised made more noise.
How were they disenfranchised, exactly?
Precisely which rights and privileges did white straight cisgender males lose under President Biden? Exactly how does highlighting the fact that some white straight cisgender males sorely need to work on improvement brand the entire group as toxic and evil? You wouldn't be the sort to lump every member of a social and/or ethnic group in with the bad ones, would you?
In all honesty I think you, like Matthew, might just be confusing an administration and political party that doesn't automatically center and cater to your demographic in all the things by default with one that intentionally and maliciously disenfranchises you.
And that all of the white straight cisgender males who voted for Trump because of that are going to find out what real disenfranchisement looks like under a sorry excuse for a leader who only needed them and pretended to be on their side for their vote. The only demographics he truly cares about are billionaires and/or whomever he thinks he can make use of in some way, and only then for as long as their usefulness and wallets keep providing.
I can't help but notice how so many of these "alt Left" white males bleat the same "it's identity politics, it's pandering, it's too woke!" sentiments whenever a proposed platform or policy doesn't center white (cisgender heterosexual) males by default (or, y'know, so much as acknowledges that OTHER demographics with their own unique concerns and struggles exist and deserve to be addressed TOO.)
How, when it's a matter that concerns a group you are a part of, it's valid and needs to be treated as paramount, but when it's something that concerns a group you are NOT a part of, it's some unimportant pandering woke niche issue that is only ever brought up to make your group feel bad (I mean why ELSE could anyone POSSIBLY bring up issues of systemic inequity, injustice, bigotry, prejudice, abuse of power, etc. if not to make white males FEEL bad?! /s)
I also can't help but notice how it took as little as "Dems r being meen 2 us 🥺😭" to get the aforementioned "alt Left" white males to "turn away" from the party and catapult themselves allllllllllllll the way into the OTHER extreme of supporting literal fascism at the (tiny)hands of an unhinged demented fatally moronic manchild with aspirations of becoming the first god-king of America.
Doesn't sound like they had far to go to "turn away" from the party if that's all it took. One might argue that they were already on their way out the door and are using "woke identity man-hating politics PUSHED me away" as their excuse to do what they wanted to do in the first place.
Whatever. Of course I don't agree. But you just called it CRAP! So how does that make you any diff?
I tend to agree with you, though I wish I didn’t.
Thank you. Too many plants here who need to be 'pruned' from this list.
But you can't deny that too many believe Trump's lies. They will be left sorely disappointed.
This Nation article is quite insightful on the problem:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/
Boy, Kate Madison: To your entire comment - I empathetically hear you. My mom and sister had dementia, not the obvious severe symptoms as many but there was, of course, a noticeable division between 'reality' and 'the dementia world'. I too feel, see this division in donny and it is frightening. Musk scares me as well with his grimaces of delight which seem to acknowledge he knows his 'chainsaw' actions are ripping apart painfully (for us) our government but are shoving dollars into his already overflowing income profits. To dear Rachel, my gratitude also for her positive slant and supporting facts on the way for us to act to aid in our revolt against donny & co and in so doing take away at least some of the pain of sitting, only watching, listening, hearing donny & co destroying America. I plan my day around MSNBC especially these days starting with Joy Reid right through Stephanie Ruhle. I 'tried' to communicate with a gentleman who works where I live a few days ago - one of the 29% still staunch donny supporters. I felt as if I'd literally hit a brick wall. The most stuck-thinking, cemented Trump believer I'd ever met. He spewed cliche after cliche supporting his 127% belief in Trump. If I hadn't been informed by the MSNBC journaling team of the wide dynamics of opposition to this gentleman's spewed thoughts (regurgitated ideals drilled into Trumpheads), supportive-thinkers who I'd heard interviewed, experts and their perspective views (on MSNBC and more in recent books I'd reviewed), I really don't know how I would have reacted to this man's admiration for trumpinski inbthe quiet of my home. My point after all this: Boy do I admire Rachel too, Kate, and appreciate her understanding of how easy it would be for many of her viewers to feel crushed by those folks brainwashed by an idiot. There doesn't appear to be any way to 'reason' with a Trump dug-in follower. The followers seem to enjoy the 'freedom?' from thinking - at all. They're stuck admiring the Wizard of Idiocy. From that standpoint, we (followers of Rachel and her lessons showing us a variety of paths to take to broaden our perspectives all the while protesting, taking actions that just might help make possible the deflating, crumbling of the efforts Trump & misfits are dramatizing how to turn 250+ years into, so far, days of their fun fascist foibles. Not on our watch, Trumpinski.
The only reason Donald isn't helping Ukraine anymore is b/c Zelensky got a standing ovation when he showed up at Notre Dame and Donald didn't.
The world will end over his ridiculously fragile ego. Sad.
This.
Again, typical from a small, revengeful man and terrifying if you think that the SCOTUS added unchecked powers to the already unique power that he possesses as the president of the United States of America! Praying for President Zelensky and Europe to stay their ground for a safer world.
He's a level of pathetic i don't think we will witness again in this lifetime.
Thank you, Mary, for continuing to speak Truth to Power!
What have we done? Well, what can we do? Male republicans are destroying the world. We need female Democrats to save our democracy and lead us to a progressive future: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/women-will-save-our-democracy
We need to remind Trump and Putin about the Budapest Memorandum the U.S., Russia, UK, & Northern Ireland committed to. Russia VIOLATED the agreement!
There is absolutely NO POINT in reminding Trump or Putin about ANY agreements or treaties signed in the past because neither of them cares about them! Thinking they have a moral compass is believing in fairy tales…
This is true. It’s pointless to keep thinking someone or something will make these two and their enablers change. It’s not pessimism, it’s the truth. The media has to find something to talk about but telling us OMG what this pathetic little man is saying he’ll do is only DOING What Ffftrump wants them to do, to repeat the insulting nicknames and slogans he creates every time he has a minute to “think” perhaps while he craps in his golden 🚽 He creates the rumors, he frames the message and the most outrageous, the happier he is because he put us all in despair. He loves it!! I’d love to see some day the bosses of the WH correspondents tell them not to ask him anything, or to ask him silly questions (not that they’re ever smart but you know what I mean) and NO PICTURES! Look at him with their most boring eyes and record him with their phones but don’t extend your hand, pull a little note pad and say can you repeat that? Hahaha he’ll miss the flashes because he thinks he’s in the boardroom of the Apprentice with everyone begging him to stay in his game. Idiot!
Viv, I believe that T's years in reality TV are at the root of all his outward appearances. I wish everyone could see this is acting, not actually sincerity.
It would SHAME him. How can ANYONE believe Putin will hold to any “negotiation “ when he violated the Budapest Memorandum that promised Russia would respect Ukraine as a sovereign country. They did not.
Trump does care about what people think. He doesn’t want to be a “loser.” He cares about crowd size. That shows he cares about opinion.
BTW, why doesn’t the media correct him when he says his polls are very high? It’s the opposite. His polls are tanking.
You think they care about any of that? These men are on the verge of breaking the constitution to do what they please and you think some memorandum is going to make them switch up on their agenda??? Come on...
I think the media should point it out.
No adverts please!
"Be a man" now means be a wimp.
There are no men. Only wimps and bullies.
This is what the far left just does not get. We will NEVER win back power because they expect us to be simping weinies and if we are not we are lumped into part of the problem. This is the biggest reason Trump won, the wokeness, the pandering, and the strait white male hating.
Totally disagree, Matthew. Democrats lost because people wouldn't vote for a Black female. Period. Call that identity politics if it makes you feel better. America has a racist, misogynistic majority. I'm a 74 yo white woman, and I'll die on this hill about this election.
I'm not dumb enough to believe that wasn't a big part as well, but I know these people. My entire family is Trump supporters, I'm a gamer and there's a huge movement trying to get wokeness out of games and it's huge. I'm telling you that is the main reason. I think the trans stuff is way more off-putting to these people than the race stuff. WAY more.
MW: Umm...NO. That's SO not it. 🤨
TRAITOR
This is the kind of nonsense that is the reason Trump is in power... unbelievable. You male hating feminists are really something else. If you think far left radical feminists are getting into power anytime soon I got some news for you...
Those who are unfortunately insecure enough to think like you do would explain why this country stays stuck in the past when it comes to electing women leaders. 🤨
This is a human tragedy that's epic in its scope and horror, and we, the America people, are its authors. I speak regularly with a friend in Ukraine, who until this week, bravely has maintained the U.S. would honor its agreements and stand by his country. Now, he doesn't answer my texts or emails and while I hope it's because he's been too busy, safeguarding his family, to respond, I fear he's lost all faith in us--deservedly so.
For some time, I've believed hatred to be an ultimately self-destructive emotion; hate is spiritually corrosive and damages the one who holds it in their heart at least as much as it harms others. Now, however? I struggle with hatred for that lying sack of shit, that orange whore, that miserable specimen representing itself as a human being and, I suspect, I'm not the only one.
No you’re not…. I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD HATE SOMEONE SO.
He truly is evil incarnate. we should all be mobilizing as much as possible. Organize protests. We need to take this into the streets. It's the only way.
Where are all those republicans who have been recently fired and voted for him? Why aren’t they protesting in the streets? How many firefighters, policemen, federal workers, people whose organizations are getting their funds cut? Families or neighbors deported but hey! They wanted to “protest” Biden’s policies so they didn’t vote for Kamala… ? what the hell were they thinking the 🍊monster would do for them? Just finding out the damage he is causing is no longer funny and answering polls saying that they disapprove of his handling of every single issue is NOT enough!
Why isn’t anyone talking about this?
It should raise National concern Trump is siding with Russia, our ADVERSARY instead of our ally, Ukraine who we COMMITTED to aide in an attack by signing the “Budapest Memorandum”(along with the UK, Northern Ireland & Russia) in exchange for their giving up their HUGE supply of nuclear weapons to Russia.
Now both countries are reneging.
Does Trump or anyone remember this signed Budapest Memorandum from December 5, 1994?? How come the reporters aren’t questioning Trump about this on the news?
If Ukraine had kept the nuclear weapons, they would still have Crimea & ALL of Ukraine. Putin would never have attacked them. There would have been no war, no deaths, no lay out of $350 billion.
Trump is dumb and a liar.
Putin is smart and a liar.
We should have stopped Russia when they attacked Ukraine during the Obama administration. Big mistake.
If we don’t support Ukraine now, the United States loses all credibility. No one will come to our rescue because they won’t believe the United States will come to theirs.
Please get this to Rachel Scott of ABC News.
Marlo, sadly, the ship of credibility has sailed from these 'trumpist states' on Jan, 20th, 2025.
Europe now is realizing that they will need to strengthen their valued alliances and operate aside from t. since he is now one of Putin's and bin Salman's little satellites.
Does Rachel Scott have this?
I don’t know how to contact Rachel Scott. Does anyone? It would be great if she could point this out on national TV David Muir’s “World News”.
Actually, I have a few statements she could make. Like pointing out that his polls are tanking. (They let him say they are “very high” and no one disputes it).
There’s still no investigation into the means by which Russian psyops disinformation has turned 1/3 to 1/2 of the US population into a cult repeating insane lies and hatred and voting accordingly. There’s a science and a method to psyops warfare and America has been conquered by it, yet still almost nobody knows it happened, much less how it happened.
Decades of fox news lies did it for them. They just co-opted the base of lemmings the republicans had built for themselves.
No doubt Rupert piled on the pathological lies and hatreds, but for Vladimir it's about attacking and destroying our civility, the rule of law, and all the institutions and social contracts that make up our cohesion as a democratic society. His aim is to destroy the power of America's military and our example as a free and thriving democratic people. And all with minimal public perception that he was behind it. Robert Mueller exposed a tiny bit of Putin's tactics up to 2016, but his infiltration into the minds of Americans has metastasized exponentially since then.
Well, Trump did all of this himself, but he may as well have been working for Putin.
Trump has been groomed by Russia for decades to play the role of cult leader he currently enjoys.
this. all of this can be traced back to fox news, every last bit of it. Fox news has done more harm to this country than any country or politician ever has.
Murdoch?
President Zelenskyy did not do Donald Trump's bidding during Trump’s first term and investigate President Biden and family. Impeachment followed. This puts Zelenskyy high up on Trump's hit list. Withdrawing US support from Ukraine doesn't have a lot to do with foreign policy. This is personal.
Yep!! Z wouldn’t toe the line. And retaliation and vengeance are front and center
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I am crying for Ukraine! I am furious at Trump, a POS! I want to scream, “Bloody Murder!”
And Saudi Arabia of all places! Has anyone forgotten who flew airliners into the twin towers on 9/11? Plus, Saudi Arabia is not democratic in the least. But then Russia and the US don’t care in the least.
The look on Zelenskyy’s face says it all.
The look on Zelenskyy’s face says it all.
You said it Mary, the pressure is Up and so is mine. I need to take blood pressure meds now, thanks to your uncle. I hope the New Health director doesn't get rid of them. Unbelievable bullshit, Thank You, Mary, keep em' Coming sweetheart, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍
Each day the darkness descends deeper.
Thanks for this column Mary, it’s insightful and honest look of where America is barreling at light speed. Your steady hand with your insiders knowledge needs to be shouted from every rooftop! Wake up maga turds, dumptrump is killing America, the mane is fully insane.
It’s only day 30 of the first 100 days in office. Unbelievable, what is next ?
DJT is a pathological liar, can not keep his stories straight. Shutting down the government, mass layoffs , took over the Kennedy Center , briefly closed the JFK Presidential Library due to layoffs of essential government staff, the Health of the World is in Jeopardy, NIH critical research is on hold or has been terminated, People in NIH Clinical Trials are unable to continue due to shut down of studies, especially in Africa, he decimated the CDC and NIH Websites, no longer to advertise availability of vaccines etc. , FDA and HHS is in disarray, Medicaid-Medicare - Social Security are at risk of being decimated and the list goes on and on and on. As a result of DOGE efforts, inflation and unemployment will soar, however he will blame it on the prior administration. He is sowing the seeds of political violence and civil disobedience. When will America wake up ! What will it take ? It’s going to get worse, so hang on.
And thanks to cutting edge research this effing abomination survived what would have been a fatal case of covid. But he deserves the best and fcuk the rest of us.
It’s always “quid pro quo” with that tyrant. And as for big “beautiful” intervening oceans, has he never heard of ICBMs?!