If they can only worry about profanity from the mayor of Minneapolis, they have more time on their hands than they should. They should get an earful of Mango Mussolini’s potty mouth. We have a government to save from Trump and his minions.
Jerome Powell's job is not an easy one, he is holding it knowledge, intelligence and strong hands; he gives us some security in our upturned mad world.
Good power to Mark Kelly, he should succeed! Hegseth is sickening, while he is around the killings multiply. We used to be a Democracy built on laws, now we teeter on something called Trump's "morality", Hey, what is that??
Congress could wrap it all up in just a couple of days: impeach (in the House) and convict (in the Senate). Republicans looking ahead regarding their careers would be very wise to join the Dems in putting together the numbers required to end the regime now. The regime is speedily spending their $75 billion budget to increase the alarmingly violent ranks of DJT’s private Gestapo. Act now — tomorrow will be too late!
I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while. Why don’t the Republican members if Congress realize that they can save the people if this Country and possibly save their political futures?
Are you referring to Republicans that have already bent to tRump's desires, like Lindsey Graham? My theory is that, during reign of terror part 1, tRump traded classified docs with Putin in exchange for high-level Intel dirt on those individuals that have tRump the necessary fodder for big-time blackmail. The kind of blackmail that the individuals believed would never be discovered - military level Intel. That's the only thing that I believe could be threatening enough to keep those people in line to the degree that he has.
I think they know it well...they don't care. Either they are more afraid of the orange shit than of their constituents or they foolishly believe that this fascist regime can't be stopped so they are in "safe" seats. They are all complicit and someday I hope we will be watching Nuremberg like trials where they are tried and convicted of treason.
Absolutely he’s building a private army who will seize ballot boxes in the next election. He just said he should have done this in 2020. He always says what he means. This ICE army needs to be abolished today!
I believe there will be state National Guard troops, in Blue and purple states and/or with Dem governors, stationed to block any efforts to seize ballot boxes or to block any efforts to intimidate people from voting in person. There are millions of Americans infuriated by actions by the Trump regime. They also will turn out to peacefully protect drop boxes and in-person voting sites.
Did the Trump regime clutch their pearls when Trump used the f-word about Israel and Iran last year? Do they need to be educated on the definition of "double standard"?
Slowly but surely, those in positions above the average citizen are getting up and standing up against this regime.
While all these lawsuits will take time, there is hope and the zone needs to be flooded with more lawsuits, in the same way the administration is flooding the zone with criminal actions.
Thank you, Scott for keeping us abreast of what's happening. 🤜⚖️🤛
Tia, you are right, and to answer Scott it is imperative for decorated military veterans like Mark Kelly and civic leaders in Minnesota and other drumpf battlegrounds to hold forth in the courts versus his insolent attacks, his foul wind machine. It's most encouraging that Jerome Powell is standing by his confirmed principles and not giving an inch to that slug drumpf. We citizens are charged with following the lead taken by our steadiest civic leaders if we are to prevail.
I'm not sure what is going to happen but MeidasTouch just showed videos of what is happening in Minneapolis. ICE is using pepper spray, pepper bombs, some kind of chemical spray. It looks like a war zone. Minneapolis needs to call in the National Guard. This is absolute chaos.
DEMOCRACY LABS offered a recent article about ICE GESTAPO THUGS being paid $197,000 a year - read the details about qualifications & training.
Detainees are dying is ICE GESTAPO CUSTODY - they call it 'natural causses'...is it ABUSE? TORTURE? LACK OF MEDICAL CARE? STARVATION? MANDATORY AUTOPSIS ON ALL DETAINEES WHO DIE IN ICE CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
When the BARBARIANS deny access by elected officials, WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? OVERFLOWING TOILETS? HUMANITARIAN ABUSE?
There is no statute of limitations on WAR CRIMES and violations of INTERNATIONAL LAWS..like BOMBING BOATS in International waters.
There were far too many posts about PROJECT 2025 and its authors that were ignored.
As pathetic as it is, this is the government THEY voted for and we're stuck with it.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS praised HITLER,
When MASSACHUSETTS was attacked by the CASINO THUGS, it was a reminder that
DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!
While PREDATORY GAMBLING sucks revenue out of your pocket, destroys local business and those who can least afford it buy LOTTERY TICKETS or spend their last DOLLAR on a SLOT MACHINE believing they're gonna GET RICH, it's all the SAME SCAM!
I encourage EVERYONE: GET INVOLVED!
Review THE DOWN BALLOT for ELECTION REPORTS - upcoming primaries and races you could help to turn around. kNOCK ON DOORS! MAKE PHONE CALLS!
I did voter canvassing in NEW HAMPSHIRE with another organization and was sent into REPUBLICAN VOTING areas.
NEW HAMPSHIRE funds PUBLIC EDUCATION with REAL ESTATE PROPERTY TAXES with predictable results. The one noteworthy encounter was a man who answered his door staggering drunk before NOON on SUNDAY with predictable support.
Trump and his allies must be stopped from subverting our elections! To turn back fascism and authoritarian oligarchy we must have immediate impeachment proceedings against Trump in addition to all out efforts to win Congress via a free and fair election.
REPUBLICANS can't win legitimate elections UNLESS THEY LIE!
I encourage everyone to do voter canvassing in REPUBLICAN AREAS - not confrontational, just benign opinion questions.
I was canvassing to defeat a corrupt REPUBLICAN.
The response from "R" VOTERS universally 'WE ONLY VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS!'
Too lazy to inform themselves...too lazy to research issues...too ignorant to comprehend how government functions....IT'S A CULT!
CARPETBAGGER & CRYPTOSCAMMER JOHN DEATON opposed Sen. Elizabeth WARREN. Everything he said was a LIED - easily disproven with publicly available information. "R" VOTERS voted for hIm....JOHN DEATON TOLD LIES SURROUNDED BY ELECTED REPUBLICANS...
JOHN DEAN authored the article below in 2017 that I refer to when I'm bafffled - WORTH READING IN ITS ENTIRETY:
Altemeyer on Trump’s Supporters
7 Jul 2017 JOHN DEAN
excerpt:
Authoritarians do remain a minority, but with non-voters and anti-Hillary Clinton voters, Trump pulled off a historic upset. It appears his core supporters remain faithful—regardless of what he does or doesn’t do. So, I asked Bob Altemeyer, what if anything would get through to the Trump supporters, given the fact Trump has shown himself, so far, totally incompetent as President of the United States. Set forth below in italics is material from Bob, who is now enjoying his retirement.
It took many months for Americans to stop supporting President Nixon during Watergate, and even at the end he could count on a hard knot of supporters who would believe him, as he said to [his chief of staff] H. R. Haldeman, because they wanted to. (NYT, 11/22/1974, p. 20). A few days before he resigned, 24% of a Gallup sample approved of the way Nixon was doing his job, including 38% of the Republicans polled.
Most of Donald Trump’s supporters are probably people whom social psychologists call authoritarian followers, because they are so supportive of the authorities they consider legitimate. These are the people Trump was talking about when he famously bragged that he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and it would make no difference to his backers. They are the people who so willingly took the “loyalty pledge” at Trump rallies in the early primaries—even calling on Trump to “do the swearing” when he had skipped it.
We know enough about authoritarian supporters from research, and history, to know it will be very hard to change their minds about the leader they adore.
They are extremely ethnocentric, dividing the world sharply into people in their in-group, and automatically disliking all others. They feel politicians who promote minority rights and immigration discriminate against them. Donald Trump tells them they are right. He is their champion.
They are highly dogmatic. They get their ideas from others in the in-group, especially from their leader, not from evidence and logic. They say there is no evidence that will make them change their minds. They’re quite comfortable believing “alternate facts.”
They get great satisfaction from being part of a large movement. Being in a cohesive crowd at rallies thrills them because they silently tell one another, just by being there, that they are powerful and right. They create an echo chamber that reinforces the belief that all the good people think like they do.
They severely limit their sources of information. They get the news that they want to get. This also produces an echo chamber when the news sources they trust are copying each other and relaying Trump’s message.
They have highly compartmentalized minds. When an unpleasant truth forces its way into their awareness, they do not try to integrate the other things they believe with it. Instead they put it in a box and isolate it from the rest of their thinking, which proceeds as if the truth never existed.
Put all this together and you get an idea how hard it will be to change their minds about Donald Trump.
Kudos and many thanks to Jerome Powell, Mark Kelly and Minnesota for standing up to the chief thug in the White House. We cannot allow our country and our world to descend into complete chaos and we are dependent on people who stand up for human rights. All of us have a responsibility to vote and get out the vote to turn this ship around.
And so many more like Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Mike Johnson,Kash Patel, Secretary of the Interior, Karen Budd Falen, who is corrupted and making millions, 3 of the Supreme Court Justices that are so corrupted, and many, many more.
Can we all just listen to Audre lord and breathe a second ?
"I am still learning—how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed." — Audre Lorde, Black lesbian feminist poet, warrior, mother
Today we are focused on these 6 actions:
Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: https://tinyurl.com/253mfne4
Demand Congress stop Trump’s illegal Venezuela military action: https://tinyurl.com/e4jar8y3
Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now: https://tinyurl.com/yzm32ams
Demand Congress vote on ACA subsidies: https://tinyurl.com/sv7ddnm3
Pass bill on unmasking ICE and displaying clear ID: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82
Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health: https://tinyurl.com/sk9xm38v
Also, sign up to volunteer for our Watchdog Coalition: https://tinyurl.com/4afyy2bs
Rep. Kelly just left House floor running a few minutes late we will be live in just a minute!
If they can only worry about profanity from the mayor of Minneapolis, they have more time on their hands than they should. They should get an earful of Mango Mussolini’s potty mouth. We have a government to save from Trump and his minions.
Jerome Powell's job is not an easy one, he is holding it knowledge, intelligence and strong hands; he gives us some security in our upturned mad world.
Good power to Mark Kelly, he should succeed! Hegseth is sickening, while he is around the killings multiply. We used to be a Democracy built on laws, now we teeter on something called Trump's "morality", Hey, what is that??
Senator Kelly on Lawrence O’Donnell last night…”I need to be standing up for all Americans,not just myself.” 💪💙🇺🇸
I’m glad we live in a time where folks like Powell, Ellison, and everyone in this chat can fight back every day against this unhinged regime.
Don’t ever let up!
....so far.
Serving up the resistance on a silver platter. I love it
Congress could wrap it all up in just a couple of days: impeach (in the House) and convict (in the Senate). Republicans looking ahead regarding their careers would be very wise to join the Dems in putting together the numbers required to end the regime now. The regime is speedily spending their $75 billion budget to increase the alarmingly violent ranks of DJT’s private Gestapo. Act now — tomorrow will be too late!
I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while. Why don’t the Republican members if Congress realize that they can save the people if this Country and possibly save their political futures?
Perhaps because the payoffs from their donors are much more important to them. And because likely some are on the Kremlin’s payroll.
Are you referring to Republicans that have already bent to tRump's desires, like Lindsey Graham? My theory is that, during reign of terror part 1, tRump traded classified docs with Putin in exchange for high-level Intel dirt on those individuals that have tRump the necessary fodder for big-time blackmail. The kind of blackmail that the individuals believed would never be discovered - military level Intel. That's the only thing that I believe could be threatening enough to keep those people in line to the degree that he has.
Apparently they haven’t gotten to the “once we help him become full dictator & he doesn’t need us, then what??” Stage.
Not a chess player in the bunch- not to mention students of dictators over the ages…
I think they know it well...they don't care. Either they are more afraid of the orange shit than of their constituents or they foolishly believe that this fascist regime can't be stopped so they are in "safe" seats. They are all complicit and someday I hope we will be watching Nuremberg like trials where they are tried and convicted of treason.
They don’t care
Absolutely he’s building a private army who will seize ballot boxes in the next election. He just said he should have done this in 2020. He always says what he means. This ICE army needs to be abolished today!
I believe there will be state National Guard troops, in Blue and purple states and/or with Dem governors, stationed to block any efforts to seize ballot boxes or to block any efforts to intimidate people from voting in person. There are millions of Americans infuriated by actions by the Trump regime. They also will turn out to peacefully protect drop boxes and in-person voting sites.
Agree 💯%
Did the Trump regime clutch their pearls when Trump used the f-word about Israel and Iran last year? Do they need to be educated on the definition of "double standard"?
Amazing that people haven’t started calling them the “C word”yet. That is what you call restraint!
Oh I do in private!!! Only add "thunder in front of C word!!! "TC" often used in covert conversation!!!! Nurse to nurse or Doc!!!
The wife uses it for Noem and Leavitt.
If the shoe fits…
They've got more restraint than I do. The word fits certain people perfectly.
Throw in the definitions of hypocrisy, and self-awareness while you’re at it. They don’t have a clue,it’s unreal.
Slowly but surely, those in positions above the average citizen are getting up and standing up against this regime.
While all these lawsuits will take time, there is hope and the zone needs to be flooded with more lawsuits, in the same way the administration is flooding the zone with criminal actions.
Thank you, Scott for keeping us abreast of what's happening. 🤜⚖️🤛
Along with this we must stay courageous and continue to be the RESISTANCE in any way we can!
Tia, you are right, and to answer Scott it is imperative for decorated military veterans like Mark Kelly and civic leaders in Minnesota and other drumpf battlegrounds to hold forth in the courts versus his insolent attacks, his foul wind machine. It's most encouraging that Jerome Powell is standing by his confirmed principles and not giving an inch to that slug drumpf. We citizens are charged with following the lead taken by our steadiest civic leaders if we are to prevail.
I'm not sure what is going to happen but MeidasTouch just showed videos of what is happening in Minneapolis. ICE is using pepper spray, pepper bombs, some kind of chemical spray. It looks like a war zone. Minneapolis needs to call in the National Guard. This is absolute chaos.
There have been comments that ICE GESTAPO is using BEAR SPRAY.
In the photos there is a canister hanging from the BELT of one of the ICE BARBARIANS that appears to be a canister of BEAR SPRAY.
they are monsters, well funded by dt
I encourage you to read information from others.
DEMOCRACY LABS offered a recent article about ICE GESTAPO THUGS being paid $197,000 a year - read the details about qualifications & training.
Detainees are dying is ICE GESTAPO CUSTODY - they call it 'natural causses'...is it ABUSE? TORTURE? LACK OF MEDICAL CARE? STARVATION? MANDATORY AUTOPSIS ON ALL DETAINEES WHO DIE IN ICE CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
When the BARBARIANS deny access by elected officials, WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? OVERFLOWING TOILETS? HUMANITARIAN ABUSE?
There is no statute of limitations on WAR CRIMES and violations of INTERNATIONAL LAWS..like BOMBING BOATS in International waters.
The NUREMBERG TRIALS established LAW.
Remember YOU WERE WARNED!
There were far too many posts about PROJECT 2025 and its authors that were ignored.
As pathetic as it is, this is the government THEY voted for and we're stuck with it.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS praised HITLER,
When MASSACHUSETTS was attacked by the CASINO THUGS, it was a reminder that
DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!
While PREDATORY GAMBLING sucks revenue out of your pocket, destroys local business and those who can least afford it buy LOTTERY TICKETS or spend their last DOLLAR on a SLOT MACHINE believing they're gonna GET RICH, it's all the SAME SCAM!
I encourage EVERYONE: GET INVOLVED!
Review THE DOWN BALLOT for ELECTION REPORTS - upcoming primaries and races you could help to turn around. kNOCK ON DOORS! MAKE PHONE CALLS!
I did voter canvassing in NEW HAMPSHIRE with another organization and was sent into REPUBLICAN VOTING areas.
NEW HAMPSHIRE funds PUBLIC EDUCATION with REAL ESTATE PROPERTY TAXES with predictable results. The one noteworthy encounter was a man who answered his door staggering drunk before NOON on SUNDAY with predictable support.
The POVERTY DEFINED THEIR SUPPORT & VOTES!
Ballotopedia.org is an excellent site for information about elections and candidates at the nation, state and local level.
That was a US CITIZEN that ICE GESTAPO assaulted & detained, after breaking his car window!
ICE GESTAPO are using TEAR GAS near schools & other public facilities, as well as RUBBER BULLETS that injure....
TRUMP's OUT OF CONTROL GESTAPO!
SPINELESS MAGA REPUBLICANS are silent or even worse,SUPPORTIVE!
YOUNG REPUBICANS posted their support of HITLER - that's who they are.
MUSKRAT, JUST DANCE VANCE & others are PROMOTING THE NAZIS in GERMANY.
This is Trumps war within he wants!! So sorry any state has to be used like that! The people are courageous and we need to stand together!!!
Trump and his allies must be stopped from subverting our elections! To turn back fascism and authoritarian oligarchy we must have immediate impeachment proceedings against Trump in addition to all out efforts to win Congress via a free and fair election.
but the repubs are so unpopular they know they wont win the honest way, they need Trump to shut down the midterms, thats why they keep Trump in power.
Think about it!
REPUBLICANS can't win legitimate elections UNLESS THEY LIE!
I encourage everyone to do voter canvassing in REPUBLICAN AREAS - not confrontational, just benign opinion questions.
I was canvassing to defeat a corrupt REPUBLICAN.
The response from "R" VOTERS universally 'WE ONLY VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS!'
Too lazy to inform themselves...too lazy to research issues...too ignorant to comprehend how government functions....IT'S A CULT!
CARPETBAGGER & CRYPTOSCAMMER JOHN DEATON opposed Sen. Elizabeth WARREN. Everything he said was a LIED - easily disproven with publicly available information. "R" VOTERS voted for hIm....JOHN DEATON TOLD LIES SURROUNDED BY ELECTED REPUBLICANS...
JOHN DEAN authored the article below in 2017 that I refer to when I'm bafffled - WORTH READING IN ITS ENTIRETY:
Altemeyer on Trump’s Supporters
7 Jul 2017 JOHN DEAN
excerpt:
Authoritarians do remain a minority, but with non-voters and anti-Hillary Clinton voters, Trump pulled off a historic upset. It appears his core supporters remain faithful—regardless of what he does or doesn’t do. So, I asked Bob Altemeyer, what if anything would get through to the Trump supporters, given the fact Trump has shown himself, so far, totally incompetent as President of the United States. Set forth below in italics is material from Bob, who is now enjoying his retirement.
It took many months for Americans to stop supporting President Nixon during Watergate, and even at the end he could count on a hard knot of supporters who would believe him, as he said to [his chief of staff] H. R. Haldeman, because they wanted to. (NYT, 11/22/1974, p. 20). A few days before he resigned, 24% of a Gallup sample approved of the way Nixon was doing his job, including 38% of the Republicans polled.
Most of Donald Trump’s supporters are probably people whom social psychologists call authoritarian followers, because they are so supportive of the authorities they consider legitimate. These are the people Trump was talking about when he famously bragged that he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and it would make no difference to his backers. They are the people who so willingly took the “loyalty pledge” at Trump rallies in the early primaries—even calling on Trump to “do the swearing” when he had skipped it.
We know enough about authoritarian supporters from research, and history, to know it will be very hard to change their minds about the leader they adore.
They are extremely ethnocentric, dividing the world sharply into people in their in-group, and automatically disliking all others. They feel politicians who promote minority rights and immigration discriminate against them. Donald Trump tells them they are right. He is their champion.
They are highly dogmatic. They get their ideas from others in the in-group, especially from their leader, not from evidence and logic. They say there is no evidence that will make them change their minds. They’re quite comfortable believing “alternate facts.”
They get great satisfaction from being part of a large movement. Being in a cohesive crowd at rallies thrills them because they silently tell one another, just by being there, that they are powerful and right. They create an echo chamber that reinforces the belief that all the good people think like they do.
They severely limit their sources of information. They get the news that they want to get. This also produces an echo chamber when the news sources they trust are copying each other and relaying Trump’s message.
They have highly compartmentalized minds. When an unpleasant truth forces its way into their awareness, they do not try to integrate the other things they believe with it. Instead they put it in a box and isolate it from the rest of their thinking, which proceeds as if the truth never existed.
Put all this together and you get an idea how hard it will be to change their minds about Donald Trump.
https://verdict.justia.com/2017/07/07/altemeyer-trumps-supporters
Excited for a slate of good news including Alaska being in play, courts and congress both stepping up (even if not enough) and individual courage.
Kudos and many thanks to Jerome Powell, Mark Kelly and Minnesota for standing up to the chief thug in the White House. We cannot allow our country and our world to descend into complete chaos and we are dependent on people who stand up for human rights. All of us have a responsibility to vote and get out the vote to turn this ship around.
Renee Good - say her name! Defund ICE and deport the fascists. I wrote a poem as a tribute to Renee: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/ice-murdered-good
Congress must move to impeach, in addition to Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi.
And so many more like Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Mike Johnson,Kash Patel, Secretary of the Interior, Karen Budd Falen, who is corrupted and making millions, 3 of the Supreme Court Justices that are so corrupted, and many, many more.
Can we all just listen to Audre lord and breathe a second ?
"I am still learning—how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed." — Audre Lorde, Black lesbian feminist poet, warrior, mother
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-week-still-sucks-trump-is-fucking-the-economy-the-gop-is-revolting-and-ice-is-killing-people