It is what many Americans underestimate. They don't think a fascist government can exist in America that can grab people off the streets for noncompliance and keep them in prison camps. Then when it happens to their family members, they can't speak up or they will join them in prison.
I’m still waiting for that moment when he shits his Depends in the courtroom and the stink reaches his attorneys. Then I’m waiting for the press gaggle on the steps. Then I’m waiting for the NYT headline: “Trump Takes Bathroom Breaks in a New Direction”.
I cancelled my NYT account after being so exhausted by their obvious ignoring of the dangers posed by Trump and his Christofascist Nationalist Movement KKKrowd agenda. We have been comparing him to Hitler and his financiers and loyalists the Nazi Party since his first term in office, and now since their loss in 2020, it's so out there.
Corporate Media should absolutely be calling him and Republicans and the money behind the Christofascist Nationalist Movement agenda out at every turn.
I cancelled mine during the W admin -- then in 2020, I don't know why, maybe because I was so desperately bored or just wanted a crossword or something, but I ended up with the NYTimes puzzle app on my phone, did one Sunday crossword & forgot about it... then, when I realized I was still paying a monthly fee, I spent a couple of months trying to cancel it. By the time I got a response (in chat, no less), I was so cranky I told them I WILL NEVER SEND ANOTHER DIME TO THE NY TIMES BECAUSE IT'S DESTROYING DEMOCRACY. (Usually I don't use all caps talking to businesses because they tend to think you're, oh, maybe a deranged nutjob.) The poor person on the other end of the chat was very nice about it and took care of the cancellation right away. It's funny -- I constantly get decent subscription offers from them now, but it's not like they even deliver an actual paper I could line a cat box with...
They want to be around after the fall. If they get too truth, it will be out the 4th floor window- metaphorically or actual. As usual, playing both sides against the middle.
It was a reported a few years back on Twitter that he blew a load in a packed press conference room. As fast as he's losing his shit these days, it may be only a matter of time before a courtroom has to experience a similar blow out.
"pity our poor beleaguered national press. they’ve been trying like hell to treat the shitcanning of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in the United States as if this were just another plain old horse-race election season"
Agreed. I canceled my subscription to the NYT because I got so fucking sick of the both sides bullshit. “Different Direction”???? That’s a pretty crappy euphemism for “full blown fascist”
I’m seriously considering canceling WaPo too. I think I’ll just not renew when it’s up. Used to be a great news source, but Bezos just has destroyed it, like he did Amazon (which I refuse to shop at because they became like Walmart)
cancelled my WaPo subscription several years ago when an ad popped up hawking a book for kids that was written by Mike Huckabee. I am not a woman prone to snap decisions but I couldn't cancel that subscription fast enough.
That’s exactly what I did, I was supposed to renew last month, and I let it lapse. Since I got a new credit card, they didn’t have the number to auto renew.
trump believes in his addled, syphilitic mind that Obama is the President, and I love that for him! He has been eating his own brain since Obama made fun of him at the dinner that was recorded for all of us to enjoy repeatedly. tffg's comprehension has collapsed and he feeds on delusions and fantasies. While it isn't normally enjoyable to watch someone's collapse, this is an exception I am taking great comfort in because we need justice and karma working together to bring back a new balance and equilibrium.
I want trump to go to his grave believing Obama bested him at everything. I mean, Obama did best him at every turn, but I want trump's belief of it to crush him.
Orange fuckface isn’t declining rapidly enough to convince his lemmings that anything is ‘off’. Even the media is still propping him up, treating him as if he’s a sane person and not the completely sadistic sociopathic paranoid creep being fed evil by the mini monsters that surround him with their horrific plans.
it's really bothersom....if Biden had said ANY of these things tRump has said the media would have blown stories up to no end about it non stop....It's disgusting
Yes, the chef's kiss of the whole thing is that his disciples keep him locked in the prison of his own making. They stop any possibility of him getting help because they feed his delusions and make it so he goes deeper into them. Reasonable people would be trying to help him, not entice him to go deeper into delusion for their entertainment. When the audience is so lost that they encourage what is happening, it's sad. But it's where we are.
I had coffee with a friend the other day. We usually discuss politics. To my great relief, she did not bring up the Israel/Hamas war. I'm nervous about self-identifying as Jewish in a public place, and that's already too far down the road to fascism as far as I'm concerned. Folks, there's one solution to the MAGA problem, and that's beating them like a drum come next November.
Ann, That is disgraceful that you have to feel that way. Fascism is ugly and we will beat this. This affects people of color, LGBTQIA, Women’s rights, vulnerable groups who are targeted by terrorist trump & his trumpanzees! THERE ARE FAR MORE OF US. We’ve given them the preview with elections in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and all the school boards that kicked the Hitler wannabes, mom of “liberty” right in the collective asses!
I did Nazi this coming, oh wait, yes I did, because I read a large chunk of Project 2025, which reads like a dystopian novel, but is even scarier because it’s real. TDS belongs to the GOP klan because they’re the crazies who believe Trump’s shit
I hope you all are prepared to fight. Either Rethuglicans win and there will be violence against everyone who isn't them or they lose and try another violent insurrection because they're in deep shit if anyone holds them accountable for open treason.
Why that site is even legal is solely so they have an excuse to shut down free speech later if anyone ELSE tries to have a website like that under their governance. "Look we did a site like that and it led to a violent takeover. We can't let anyone else do that!"
I really hate these fuckers. Good job for them I'm not a violent person.
I've never been a violent person either. And then along came tffg who encouraged the loons to join a cult of worshipers and revel in cognitive dissonance like mushrooms in shit. I was surprised to find that I possessed a homicidal rage I had been unaware of before 'dipshits unite' was a goal unleashed on the world.
I've been pissed off for half of the last 40+ years, since Reagan manipulated the Iran hostage crisis to get elected, but Trump cranked it up to 11. We keep the two guns we have locked up for a reason.
His 86 year old sister died today. The parents' ages at death and the sister's age at death tell us we MUST to have a blue wave to keep this crazy MF out of the White House.
I’m expecting him to blow a gasket anytime given the 90+ indictments he faces and trying to fake like he’s up to running an election. We’ll know it’s blown when his makeup starts running down his face like Rudy’s did.
Thank you Jeff. The Heritage Foundation has a hand in Project 2025. Trump is just a manifestation of the fascist disease. Most of the GOP have been infected. One doesn't need to look beyond Orban speaking at CPAC to know that the GOP is done with democracy.
The media should be flashing warning signs in headlines daily. However they do not embrace a one-party race. They thrive on conflict and want the election to be decided by razor-thin margins. Who cares if Trump, or another MAGA candidate refers to the press as "Enemies of the People? (same as Hitler once did).
Aside from the press, a democracy requires a well-educated, well-informed, and engaged society. Perhaps we'll get the government we deserve while Putin and Xi Jinping divide up the rest of the world.
After a year in Lisbon, now just outside of Aveiro. Some expat friends but grateful for the sense of community among the Portuguese. Great culture, architecture , infrastructure, healthcare, and proximity to the rest of Europe.
Same thing here but lots of crazy, mean expats, not all of course, but it is a phenomenon. Well I'm not close to Europe either but I want to explore Argentia and Patagonia someday. I adore the Mexican people really good, joyful hard-working people. I retired and came to San Miguel de Allende two years ago to focus on my writing and last week I published my book!
Congratulations on book publishing! Sorry to hear of some negative expats -they tend to ruin it for those who want to immerse in language, culture, and have a genuine gratitude for being a guest in another country.
If you polled his followers I wonder how many had parents or grandparents who fought fascism in WWII? Probably 95% of them. And now they want a fascist president and country. I have absolutely no idea what his followers actually hear when he spews his constant stream of venom, lies, and demented ramblings, but they are obviously ok with it. Is it lack of education? Do they think it’s amusing? Do they feel the federal government has let them down and Trump will somehow fix it? I heard someone, when asked why they like Trump, say “because I like the way he tells it like it is”. Dear god...
The Guardian ain't perfect but it's a whole lot better than NYT or WAPO combined, plus really good world news as well as USA. Excellent opinion pieces from John Crace & Marina Hyde (they can say fuck all they want!! in the regular paper!! so advanced!! lol) and a great climate cartoon called First Dog on the Moon---AND you can choose what to pay --- love it.
Thanks for this suggestion! My NYT subscription went years ago, and WaPo is hanging by a Murdoch-endorsed-new-CEO thread, so I have to look into SOMETHING else.
This started with the onset of the name MAGA..Hitler used it in his speeches to become Chancellor: Make Germany Great Again... It’s been here all along .
The decline into fascism is slow and then all at once.
Hemingway would approve of this comment
I guess I deserve an absinthe cocktail.
it's a great comment, it's up there in the "wish I'd thought of it" stratosphere
far too much of my schooling was spent focused on the topic
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
LOL!!
Ahhh...the Green Fairy
I’ll join you.
It is what many Americans underestimate. They don't think a fascist government can exist in America that can grab people off the streets for noncompliance and keep them in prison camps. Then when it happens to their family members, they can't speak up or they will join them in prison.
Bingo! The vast majority of democracies die.
Kind of like the melting of Antarctic ice.
Painfully true...
... like birthing a baby ... as in prophecy...announcing armageddon
I’m still waiting for that moment when he shits his Depends in the courtroom and the stink reaches his attorneys. Then I’m waiting for the press gaggle on the steps. Then I’m waiting for the NYT headline: “Trump Takes Bathroom Breaks in a New Direction”.
👏👏👏👏 Bravo!
I cancelled my NYT account after being so exhausted by their obvious ignoring of the dangers posed by Trump and his Christofascist Nationalist Movement KKKrowd agenda. We have been comparing him to Hitler and his financiers and loyalists the Nazi Party since his first term in office, and now since their loss in 2020, it's so out there.
Corporate Media should absolutely be calling him and Republicans and the money behind the Christofascist Nationalist Movement agenda out at every turn.
I cancelled mine during the W admin -- then in 2020, I don't know why, maybe because I was so desperately bored or just wanted a crossword or something, but I ended up with the NYTimes puzzle app on my phone, did one Sunday crossword & forgot about it... then, when I realized I was still paying a monthly fee, I spent a couple of months trying to cancel it. By the time I got a response (in chat, no less), I was so cranky I told them I WILL NEVER SEND ANOTHER DIME TO THE NY TIMES BECAUSE IT'S DESTROYING DEMOCRACY. (Usually I don't use all caps talking to businesses because they tend to think you're, oh, maybe a deranged nutjob.) The poor person on the other end of the chat was very nice about it and took care of the cancellation right away. It's funny -- I constantly get decent subscription offers from them now, but it's not like they even deliver an actual paper I could line a cat box with...
They want to be around after the fall. If they get too truth, it will be out the 4th floor window- metaphorically or actual. As usual, playing both sides against the middle.
Oh dear gods..... fuck the NYT.
It was a reported a few years back on Twitter that he blew a load in a packed press conference room. As fast as he's losing his shit these days, it may be only a matter of time before a courtroom has to experience a similar blow out.
I want full Mr. Creosote.
The Apprentice producers seem to know of this too.
According to the reporter who said he was there, it's true. Wish I remembered the reporter's name.
Hahaaaaha (direct quote of me now)
big, beautiful gigantic LOL!
😄😂
Btw, I took up the challenge of composing a little ditty about the Trump crime family a la the Addams family. Please enjoy:
They’re stupid and they’re fools
They’ll con rubes from their jewels
They really are such ghouls
The Trump Fraud Family!
Their manse is fake gold plated
It’s gated cuz they’re hated
To hell I hope they’re fated
The Trump Fraud Family!
Here’s a clue to all those brain dead
No more will they be spoon fed
To prison they will soon head
The Trump Fraud Family!
Snap! SNAP!!
That was absolutely enjoyable and fun! Thanks.
😂🤣❤️Just great!!
The Addams Family theme music played in my head when I read this
Brilliant my friend, absolutely brilliant!!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Excellent. Should be played at all the 🍊💩’s rallies!!
Excellent!
Hilarious and I love it! 😂🤣
Bravo👏👏
Excellent! 😄
"pity our poor beleaguered national press. they’ve been trying like hell to treat the shitcanning of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in the United States as if this were just another plain old horse-race election season"
I don't pity them I am furious at them.
Agreed. I canceled my subscription to the NYT because I got so fucking sick of the both sides bullshit. “Different Direction”???? That’s a pretty crappy euphemism for “full blown fascist”
I, too, canceled the NYT and WaPo - I couldn't stomach their catering to the extremists and covering up the obvious authoritarian bent of the MAGAts.
I’m seriously considering canceling WaPo too. I think I’ll just not renew when it’s up. Used to be a great news source, but Bezos just has destroyed it, like he did Amazon (which I refuse to shop at because they became like Walmart)
cancelled my WaPo subscription several years ago when an ad popped up hawking a book for kids that was written by Mike Huckabee. I am not a woman prone to snap decisions but I couldn't cancel that subscription fast enough.
WaPo's new CEO is a Murdoch conglomerate veteran. Administrations are core principles and philosophical ideals
That’s exactly what I did, I was supposed to renew last month, and I let it lapse. Since I got a new credit card, they didn’t have the number to auto renew.
Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻
You are not alone, a majority of those of us who are paying attention are right with you!
kay-El I’m happy to hear about the cancellations. I hope it is very noticeable. 👍🏼
I cancelled mine, too. Now I subscribe to Jeff T and Mueller She Wrote among others.
They aren't hapless victims of circumstance. They are fueling the fire for profit.
Ditto
trump believes in his addled, syphilitic mind that Obama is the President, and I love that for him! He has been eating his own brain since Obama made fun of him at the dinner that was recorded for all of us to enjoy repeatedly. tffg's comprehension has collapsed and he feeds on delusions and fantasies. While it isn't normally enjoyable to watch someone's collapse, this is an exception I am taking great comfort in because we need justice and karma working together to bring back a new balance and equilibrium.
I want trump to go to his grave believing Obama bested him at everything. I mean, Obama did best him at every turn, but I want trump's belief of it to crush him.
Orange fuckface isn’t declining rapidly enough to convince his lemmings that anything is ‘off’. Even the media is still propping him up, treating him as if he’s a sane person and not the completely sadistic sociopathic paranoid creep being fed evil by the mini monsters that surround him with their horrific plans.
it's really bothersom....if Biden had said ANY of these things tRump has said the media would have blown stories up to no end about it non stop....It's disgusting
Yes, the chef's kiss of the whole thing is that his disciples keep him locked in the prison of his own making. They stop any possibility of him getting help because they feed his delusions and make it so he goes deeper into them. Reasonable people would be trying to help him, not entice him to go deeper into delusion for their entertainment. When the audience is so lost that they encourage what is happening, it's sad. But it's where we are.
Sarah, I agree. They act like trump is controlling the GQP! He’s practically brain dead! He makes the perfect puppet.
I can see his lemmings still idolizing the orange fuckface when he’s brought on stage a la “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
Schadenfreude.
Why aren't more people laughing at this? Because it's not really but at the same time..
Precisely. I learned to spell the word and recognize its aroma specifically for this era; it's the perfect antidote.
It would be funny if Obama dialed him at 230 a.m. and hung up.
I’m scared to fucking death. 😳
Just decide to fight.
We have to fight
We have no other choice.
ditto
Me too. 🤯
I had coffee with a friend the other day. We usually discuss politics. To my great relief, she did not bring up the Israel/Hamas war. I'm nervous about self-identifying as Jewish in a public place, and that's already too far down the road to fascism as far as I'm concerned. Folks, there's one solution to the MAGA problem, and that's beating them like a drum come next November.
Ann, That is disgraceful that you have to feel that way. Fascism is ugly and we will beat this. This affects people of color, LGBTQIA, Women’s rights, vulnerable groups who are targeted by terrorist trump & his trumpanzees! THERE ARE FAR MORE OF US. We’ve given them the preview with elections in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and all the school boards that kicked the Hitler wannabes, mom of “liberty” right in the collective asses!
I did Nazi this coming, oh wait, yes I did, because I read a large chunk of Project 2025, which reads like a dystopian novel, but is even scarier because it’s real. TDS belongs to the GOP klan because they’re the crazies who believe Trump’s shit
I hope you all are prepared to fight. Either Rethuglicans win and there will be violence against everyone who isn't them or they lose and try another violent insurrection because they're in deep shit if anyone holds them accountable for open treason.
Why that site is even legal is solely so they have an excuse to shut down free speech later if anyone ELSE tries to have a website like that under their governance. "Look we did a site like that and it led to a violent takeover. We can't let anyone else do that!"
I really hate these fuckers. Good job for them I'm not a violent person.
I've never been a violent person either. And then along came tffg who encouraged the loons to join a cult of worshipers and revel in cognitive dissonance like mushrooms in shit. I was surprised to find that I possessed a homicidal rage I had been unaware of before 'dipshits unite' was a goal unleashed on the world.
I've been pissed off for half of the last 40+ years, since Reagan manipulated the Iran hostage crisis to get elected, but Trump cranked it up to 11. We keep the two guns we have locked up for a reason.
Like mushrooms in shit or as mushrooms in shit? :p
His 86 year old sister died today. The parents' ages at death and the sister's age at death tell us we MUST to have a blue wave to keep this crazy MF out of the White House.
First thing I check in my news alerts: Is he dead, at last. I think I am not alone in that.
I’m expecting him to blow a gasket anytime given the 90+ indictments he faces and trying to fake like he’s up to running an election. We’ll know it’s blown when his makeup starts running down his face like Rudy’s did.
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
From your lips...
and the fucking stress except I've been told sociopaths don't experience stress
like we normal people do.
"I am the great and powerful OZ!"---from behind the curtain, smoke and mirrors....
agree. and it's going to happen. the judge see straight thru these liars and their bullshit.
You know it.
Agreed. Also, senility, which I don't know if she was showing, can lead to not taking care of oneself. Trump is certainly showing signs of that.
🤞🏼
Thank you Jeff. The Heritage Foundation has a hand in Project 2025. Trump is just a manifestation of the fascist disease. Most of the GOP have been infected. One doesn't need to look beyond Orban speaking at CPAC to know that the GOP is done with democracy.
The media should be flashing warning signs in headlines daily. However they do not embrace a one-party race. They thrive on conflict and want the election to be decided by razor-thin margins. Who cares if Trump, or another MAGA candidate refers to the press as "Enemies of the People? (same as Hitler once did).
Aside from the press, a democracy requires a well-educated, well-informed, and engaged society. Perhaps we'll get the government we deserve while Putin and Xi Jinping divide up the rest of the world.
It's all about $$$$$$!!
I'm glad I live in Mexico, nobody cares about it.
I’m in Portugal.
Nice. I could wind up there, who knows. Where in Portugal? What are the expats like there?
After a year in Lisbon, now just outside of Aveiro. Some expat friends but grateful for the sense of community among the Portuguese. Great culture, architecture , infrastructure, healthcare, and proximity to the rest of Europe.
Same thing here but lots of crazy, mean expats, not all of course, but it is a phenomenon. Well I'm not close to Europe either but I want to explore Argentia and Patagonia someday. I adore the Mexican people really good, joyful hard-working people. I retired and came to San Miguel de Allende two years ago to focus on my writing and last week I published my book!
Congratulations on book publishing! Sorry to hear of some negative expats -they tend to ruin it for those who want to immerse in language, culture, and have a genuine gratitude for being a guest in another country.
They should care, because Trump already said he would invade Mexico.
If you polled his followers I wonder how many had parents or grandparents who fought fascism in WWII? Probably 95% of them. And now they want a fascist president and country. I have absolutely no idea what his followers actually hear when he spews his constant stream of venom, lies, and demented ramblings, but they are obviously ok with it. Is it lack of education? Do they think it’s amusing? Do they feel the federal government has let them down and Trump will somehow fix it? I heard someone, when asked why they like Trump, say “because I like the way he tells it like it is”. Dear god...
The extent of their historical knowledge comes from Bill O'Reilly.
You just described my whole family dynamic at the present time. My sister and mother are sick over it
As well as I*
The Guardian ain't perfect but it's a whole lot better than NYT or WAPO combined, plus really good world news as well as USA. Excellent opinion pieces from John Crace & Marina Hyde (they can say fuck all they want!! in the regular paper!! so advanced!! lol) and a great climate cartoon called First Dog on the Moon---AND you can choose what to pay --- love it.
Did you watch any of their joint appearances? Delightful. No one writes captures the moments better than Marina Hyde.
Yes, I always try to catch them, usually I watch a few days after bc time difference but that's fine! Brilliant! as they say, :)
will take you suggestion.
Thanks for this suggestion! My NYT subscription went years ago, and WaPo is hanging by a Murdoch-endorsed-new-CEO thread, so I have to look into SOMETHING else.
Just signed up for their daily newsletter. I get AP’s as well. That should cover me when my WaPo runs out.
Thanks for this...I'm done with the NYT and WaPo. 🙄 I just remembered I also like Reuters and the AP.
This started with the onset of the name MAGA..Hitler used it in his speeches to become Chancellor: Make Germany Great Again... It’s been here all along .
Damn! Great reporting from you!!!
I want to go to sleep and wake up in 2025 with my fingers over my eyes - and ask what happened?
80 million of us want the same thing.
🎯!! We have to use our power and stop cowering. Time to scare the sh*t out of them. They know what the recent Dem wins mean for them. Push back!
You said it!! I've been saying that since 2020