Thanks, it is very frightening. If all these people are going to be rounded up, etc. Who will work the jobs that they leave behind? Do they ever think about that? Who will grow the food, pick the produce, work in the meat factories, roof their white castle homes?
Their thought process is not only deranged but very limited. We remember candidates like Wallace and Goldwater who scared the hell out of many people but their ideology was tame in comparison to this autocratic madman. Can't ever remember a campaign platform that was solely based on revenge, power, hate and staying out of prison.
Despite the hard truth, you still made me laugh with “Trump is still out here fascisting at a mile a minute” I like adding “ing” to Arabic words when I don’t know any other way to get my point across. Bless you for being funny even when it’s really hard to be anything but devastated.
Check out Laurence Tribe on the 14th amendment, if the stopgaps don’t work and not enough people come out to vote, we will have a dictatorship. Tribe details how that will happen.
I watched that yesterday and it IS very powerful, especially coming from Laurence Tribe, who is NOT a hysteric, like, AT ALL. When he says things like he does in this video, I listen!
Thank you for posting the link here. Just watched it. Sickening. What scares me the most IS all the voter suppression that has gone on and will continue under the radar.
I have come to hate the media with a passion! Most of the major news outlets have become useless, money grubbing, attention seeking, and destructive. Each day they practice misdirection and are greedy-sloppy destroyers of democracy. The polling is the stupidest bullshit to ever waste our precious time - based on calling (haha) a thousand people. Fuck that shit!
Sorry, but we need the media. They serve a purpose, even if they seem to be failing now. They need to report the obvious Truth that Trump is losing his mind, and not in a good way. He is victim to the dementia he accuses Biden of having. Is it Sioux City or Sioux Falls, old man? Must you echo Nazi propaganda (Without the Teutonic wit), Donald?
While I’m hating the failure of many media outlets I completely realize that we are screwed without it. We need as much actual news (less punditry and opinion) as we can get. Our democracy fails when we are unaware of what is taking place and we must hold the media itself and those it reports on accountable. We can’t do that if we don’t have facts.
You are so right, nothing funny here, but how do we get these stupid people with potatoes in their ears to sit up and pay attention? What the hell are they waiting for?
The only thing they allow past their censored ears is talk of what they think will be even more prosperous for their own selfish, materialistic, selves.
Im old enough to remember feeling safe being Jewish in this country - while still being taught by my parents that there would plenty of people in my life who wouldn’t like me because I’m Jewish. So - I made sure that people never misunderstood my light blond hair, green eyes & freckles for anything else. You don’t need to be funny every day Jeff. Thanks for all your words.
We're watching it happen in real time. It's worse than anything I've ever experienced in my life time - from duck and cover, cold war, more cold war, Kennedy, King, Bobby, Nixon, Watergate, and on and on.
But I've never felt personally threatened by politics. It sucks...
The fact that America is even considering the incompetent fascist criminal Trump as a viable candidate tells the rest of the world all they need to know about the so-called United States. Putin should just wait for 2025 such that as the extremist sociopathic GOP controls the House and will not help any of our allies, and a Trump presidency would simply abandon NATO, thus allowing Putin to expand Russian borders to France while Trump tries to buy Greenland.
The media loves putting a microphone in front of sociopathic circus clowns like Trump, MTG, and others 24x7 because then they don’t have to actually pay journalists to cover deep SCOTUS corruption, growing wealth inequality, or the complete disarray in the House of Representatives.
You are 100% correct. That POS CAN'T win. It would be the end of the world as we know it. Mexico & Canada better watch their borders. There will be a mass exodus from the US to ANYWHERE if he wins!!
There are no easy answers. A meaningful democracy requires an educated, informed, and engaged society. I’ve seen a significant erosion of all three pillars throughout my lifetime, while wealth/power has concentrated. First we must all vote. Beyond a continuing commitment to vote we must prioritize societal investment in all three pillars to strengthen and protect democracy while fulfilling its promise. And share Jeff’s writing -he’s informative and entertaining, a wonderfully dangerous combination.
Yet he says he will “round up all the ... fascists”...?? True dictators see no issue with what they are proposing. Exceedingly terrifying and sad, all at once.
I haven't forgotten those senators that visited Putin on the 4th of July; likely he made them prove their loyalty by selecting that day in particular.
However, Steve Bannon's stated goal is to utterly destroy democracy in general and the US in particular. He is often referred to as a brilliant strategist and intellectual (no idea if that's actually true) but his self-loathing and hatred of others dictates his primary goal to destroy America. Yes, Putin wants to destroy America too and he installed tRump to steal top secret info for him, which he has likely already been given. Bannon is boots on the ground in America, and working closely with GOP operatives to disassemble our nation from within and create shameful policies like caging asylum-seeking children and babies. Bannon is the one coming up with these evil plans with Stephen Miller, as well as plans to overthrow elections. Bannon is definitely calling most of the shots; Trump listens to him. Putin is busy with his own war and meddling in Hamas/Israel conflict; he already got what he needed from tRump.
Every morning I pray he will eat his last fat-laden KFC chicken leg. I'm sure there's room for him in that sh8tty motel/cemetery/golf course plot with his ex-wife.
He's on something, otherwise he wouldn't accuse Biden of being on drugs. More projection! The highest office in the land & you don't have to pass a drug test?!?!? That would disqualify Trump day 1!! (& his kids too!)
Jeff. It's wonderful to be funny, but wise when to know not to be funny. You are both funny and wise. That puts you into a small elite group of the best of the best. Just in the past couple of weeks I begin to see people who are all decked out in their domestic terrorist uniforms, biker jackets or camouflage covered with threatening messages on patches and stickers. They are not funny. I am afraid of Trump and the Confederate culture warriors. They can hardly wait for Fascist rule. They're twitching with hatred and are ready to kill. My 17 year old grand daughter is afraid too. She says many of her friends have a world view that is too small and personal and do not realize how their lives are affected by politics that seem far away. We need every vote.
I grew up Christian. I attended Christian grade school and graduated from a Christian high school. The values instilled in me were to always believe my elders and that it was disrespectful to question them, no matter how many biblical contradictions repeatedly hit me in the face. I think religion significantly reduces critical thinking and leaves people vulnerable to cultist beliefs. Add a lack of education and you're smack in the middle of MAGA land.
I had this conversation with my mother-in-law’s partner just last night. She talked about moving to Mississippi from New York to teach in the nineties and finding out that her students were not only not taught critical thinking, they were taught it was evil. I live in Mississippi currently, and it has not changed. How do you even fight that?
Trump has said that "Mein Kampf" was his favorite book. I don't think that he can read that well so someone must have read it to him.
I think that is another Trump lie. But he has learned enough about the Third Reich to envy what Hitler did. Unlike normal people, who are repelled by the horror.
Trump is too chickensh*t to shoot anyone on 5th avenue or anywhere else. It is all of the disturbed, retarded, defective people who believe in all of the Big Lies that are the danger. That includes people in Congress and the DOJ. Trump worked hard on Project 2025 when he was in the White House from 2017 to 2021. The extent of his rigging of our government: the tax structure, "his" judges throughout the court system, his stealing and sale of classified secrets, and much more are being discovered all the time. Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth pale in comparison. There has never been a greater enemy of the United States than Donald J Trump.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Who was it that praised Washington's rag tag Revolutionary Army for liberating the airports that the British had seized in 1775?
I had an uncle that served in the 101st Airborne. He had to parachute into Nazi Germany. The majority of the German people that he came in contact with were thankfully kind, so he was kind to them. They didn't want war and death. They didn't want Hitler.
As the Allied forces entered Berlin and neared Hitler's bunker, Hitler and Eva took cyanide to commit suicide. People in the compound set it on fire and ran.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Bannon ,Miller , and on and on ,Shitler couldn’t have done it without his brown shirts,look at his business disasters ,these evil pricks are just as responsible!
I will never ever understand Trump's numbers going up. Is it possible there really are that many millions of people in the U.S. who are just like him and wish for this?
Mary, as Jeff has said on here before, those people are all members of the "leopards eating peoples faces" party. They truly believe that they will never be the ones whose faces get eaten, particularly by the leopard they themselves voted for.
They didn’t vote, they didn’t attend rallies, they didn’t believe the politicians spoke for them. Sarah Palin nudged them awake, Bannon found his fascist, Stephen Miller provided the script, and all the swamp dwellers rose up and shouted “Yay!”
My dad once quipped: IF you can keep your head while those about you lose theirs, perhaps you don’t understand the situation.
I am frustrated. What action within lawful means can we take? The courts, quite correctly, are hamstrung with due process. Ironically, actions to expedite remediation are exactly why we cannot.
We have a national party having made a Faustian bargain to secure power. We have cynical News agencies and Commentators whose paycheck is the driving force, damn the consequence.
I loathe bandying terms such as Fascist, yet what else comes to mind? MAGA-IST? Whatever the word, we must socialize the term in all its ugliness.
The notion of the deportation camps is incredible and for reason cited. The Japanese-American internment camps are instructive. They were not the concentration camps like Germany. Yet, those interned suffered economic loss. They lived in awful conditions like Manzanar in CA’s Owens Valley. In the end, and some years later, an apology of sorts. Sort of like “thoughts and prayers.”
During his first run for the presidency, I, along with my fellow Jews, heard the echo of brown shirts and their leaders. I know others may have felt a tinge of familiarity with Hitlerism/Nazism, but most seemed to be deaf. Here we are, these many years later, and people are still ignoring what has become blatantly obvious. What are we waiting for? What are we confused about?
History IS repeating itself yet eyes and ears still close to what is now made obvious by spoken and written words. Is it comforting to ignore the danger all around us?
The DC Holocaust museum has one exhibit that examines the steps Hitler took toward the final solution. There is a recipe, and Trump is collecting all the ingredients including tens of millions of loyal followers. He has told us what he wants to create if elected, and it's up to all of us to stop him.
Thanks, Jeff, for providing incentive to take action... NOW! Before it's too late.
I appreciate that you are an ally in remembering what happened, and how it happened. We know what is possible in this world, and we should always be ready to resist.
Ms. Spouse: "what are you writing about this morning?"
me: "Hitler's final solution. it's going to be hysterical."
sorry folks, for delivering no funny today. there isn't much humor that can be wrung out of this subject
Sobs into laptop as I’m forced to pretend times are normal...
Thanks, it is very frightening. If all these people are going to be rounded up, etc. Who will work the jobs that they leave behind? Do they ever think about that? Who will grow the food, pick the produce, work in the meat factories, roof their white castle homes?
Remember the year all the produce rotted in the fields because Repubs were against immigrants?
They aren't capable of thinking that far in advance. In fact, they don't want. The immediate gratification is more than enough.
Slavery rears it's ugly head.
Their thought process is not only deranged but very limited. We remember candidates like Wallace and Goldwater who scared the hell out of many people but their ideology was tame in comparison to this autocratic madman. Can't ever remember a campaign platform that was solely based on revenge, power, hate and staying out of prison.
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James Michael Curley comes to mind, but that was just In my Town,long ago.
Sadly, I think the plan is for them to still do it, except for free from their new home in the camps.
After all, "Arbeit macht frei".
They probably think we’re already all on welfare so it’s a double gain for them.
Despite the hard truth, you still made me laugh with “Trump is still out here fascisting at a mile a minute” I like adding “ing” to Arabic words when I don’t know any other way to get my point across. Bless you for being funny even when it’s really hard to be anything but devastated.
I saw that, too.
Check out Laurence Tribe on the 14th amendment, if the stopgaps don’t work and not enough people come out to vote, we will have a dictatorship. Tribe details how that will happen.
https://youtu.be/-AUIjOHw9pY?si=OAz8jPWjeGUHQ2Cb
I watched that yesterday and it IS very powerful, especially coming from Laurence Tribe, who is NOT a hysteric, like, AT ALL. When he says things like he does in this video, I listen!
Thank you for posting the link here. Just watched it. Sickening. What scares me the most IS all the voter suppression that has gone on and will continue under the radar.
Agreed, and the courts don’t seem to be interested in protecting voting rights.
I have come to hate the media with a passion! Most of the major news outlets have become useless, money grubbing, attention seeking, and destructive. Each day they practice misdirection and are greedy-sloppy destroyers of democracy. The polling is the stupidest bullshit to ever waste our precious time - based on calling (haha) a thousand people. Fuck that shit!
Sorry, but we need the media. They serve a purpose, even if they seem to be failing now. They need to report the obvious Truth that Trump is losing his mind, and not in a good way. He is victim to the dementia he accuses Biden of having. Is it Sioux City or Sioux Falls, old man? Must you echo Nazi propaganda (Without the Teutonic wit), Donald?
While I’m hating the failure of many media outlets I completely realize that we are screwed without it. We need as much actual news (less punditry and opinion) as we can get. Our democracy fails when we are unaware of what is taking place and we must hold the media itself and those it reports on accountable. We can’t do that if we don’t have facts.
But only if they fucking CALL IT LIKE IT IS!
You are so right, nothing funny here, but how do we get these stupid people with potatoes in their ears to sit up and pay attention? What the hell are they waiting for?
The only thing they allow past their censored ears is talk of what they think will be even more prosperous for their own selfish, materialistic, selves.
Im old enough to remember feeling safe being Jewish in this country - while still being taught by my parents that there would plenty of people in my life who wouldn’t like me because I’m Jewish. So - I made sure that people never misunderstood my light blond hair, green eyes & freckles for anything else. You don’t need to be funny every day Jeff. Thanks for all your words.
A hearty FUCK YOU to anyone who said I overreacted in 2016.
Amen!!!
Be Afraid Be Very Afraid
This is a Train Wreck In REAL TIME.
And I will repeat for the Umpteenth Time
Never ever say again : How did the Germans allow that to happen. You are witnessing how it happens , in real time.
Think Dresden.
Yes thats what happens when fascists go unchecked
Trump using the term "Globalists" terrifies me.
We're watching it happen in real time. It's worse than anything I've ever experienced in my life time - from duck and cover, cold war, more cold war, Kennedy, King, Bobby, Nixon, Watergate, and on and on.
But I've never felt personally threatened by politics. It sucks...
That as the scary part: Charlottesville, when he said good people on both sides, that was his approval to the Nazis
That was the Cats out of the bag moment. Tacit approval, his endorsement. Like Musk?
The fact that America is even considering the incompetent fascist criminal Trump as a viable candidate tells the rest of the world all they need to know about the so-called United States. Putin should just wait for 2025 such that as the extremist sociopathic GOP controls the House and will not help any of our allies, and a Trump presidency would simply abandon NATO, thus allowing Putin to expand Russian borders to France while Trump tries to buy Greenland.
The media loves putting a microphone in front of sociopathic circus clowns like Trump, MTG, and others 24x7 because then they don’t have to actually pay journalists to cover deep SCOTUS corruption, growing wealth inequality, or the complete disarray in the House of Representatives.
You are 100% correct. That POS CAN'T win. It would be the end of the world as we know it. Mexico & Canada better watch their borders. There will be a mass exodus from the US to ANYWHERE if he wins!!
There are no easy answers. A meaningful democracy requires an educated, informed, and engaged society. I’ve seen a significant erosion of all three pillars throughout my lifetime, while wealth/power has concentrated. First we must all vote. Beyond a continuing commitment to vote we must prioritize societal investment in all three pillars to strengthen and protect democracy while fulfilling its promise. And share Jeff’s writing -he’s informative and entertaining, a wonderfully dangerous combination.
The debate of whether or not Trump is a fascist is over - he’s an extremely dumb fascist but a fascist nonetheless.
Yet he says he will “round up all the ... fascists”...?? True dictators see no issue with what they are proposing. Exceedingly terrifying and sad, all at once.
Don’t let my right hand see what my left is doing.
The problem is that people like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon are not dumb. Trump dreams something up and they’ll find a way to make it happen.
I believe Bannon is the puppet master
And around immigration, the evil Miller pulls all the strings. He is monstrous.
Miller is Trump's Goebbels.
No no...Putin is the puppet master! Fake 45 and others are puppets. Don’t forget when all of those senators high-tailed it to Russia in July ‘21.
I haven't forgotten those senators that visited Putin on the 4th of July; likely he made them prove their loyalty by selecting that day in particular.
However, Steve Bannon's stated goal is to utterly destroy democracy in general and the US in particular. He is often referred to as a brilliant strategist and intellectual (no idea if that's actually true) but his self-loathing and hatred of others dictates his primary goal to destroy America. Yes, Putin wants to destroy America too and he installed tRump to steal top secret info for him, which he has likely already been given. Bannon is boots on the ground in America, and working closely with GOP operatives to disassemble our nation from within and create shameful policies like caging asylum-seeking children and babies. Bannon is the one coming up with these evil plans with Stephen Miller, as well as plans to overthrow elections. Bannon is definitely calling most of the shots; Trump listens to him. Putin is busy with his own war and meddling in Hamas/Israel conflict; he already got what he needed from tRump.
Every morning I pray he will eat his last fat-laden KFC chicken leg. I'm sure there's room for him in that sh8tty motel/cemetery/golf course plot with his ex-wife.
Open her grave first and see what’s in there.
More documents! Why would it take 10 pall bearers to struggle with her casket? She was a small woman. And, I heard she was creamated.
😂😂😂
They say this all the time on the Bulwark...just waiting for that final McDonalds hamburger
Right??
I was hoping he'd overdose on donuts.
Or ketchup. It's full of sugar! LOL!
Trump o.d.s on ketchup. I want to read that headline!
Me too!
Or Adderall.
He doesn't take Adderall. He NEEDS to, though.
I think he DID. Or maybe it was cocaine. Remember his sniffles during the debate with Hillary in 2016? And other times.
I wonder whether he and Don Jr. ever got high together or if they got to that point separately.
He's on something, otherwise he wouldn't accuse Biden of being on drugs. More projection! The highest office in the land & you don't have to pass a drug test?!?!? That would disqualify Trump day 1!! (& his kids too!)
Excellent point! He has never said anything about another person that wasn't a projection.
Cocaine is my bet.
Jeff. It's wonderful to be funny, but wise when to know not to be funny. You are both funny and wise. That puts you into a small elite group of the best of the best. Just in the past couple of weeks I begin to see people who are all decked out in their domestic terrorist uniforms, biker jackets or camouflage covered with threatening messages on patches and stickers. They are not funny. I am afraid of Trump and the Confederate culture warriors. They can hardly wait for Fascist rule. They're twitching with hatred and are ready to kill. My 17 year old grand daughter is afraid too. She says many of her friends have a world view that is too small and personal and do not realize how their lives are affected by politics that seem far away. We need every vote.
I grew up Christian. I attended Christian grade school and graduated from a Christian high school. The values instilled in me were to always believe my elders and that it was disrespectful to question them, no matter how many biblical contradictions repeatedly hit me in the face. I think religion significantly reduces critical thinking and leaves people vulnerable to cultist beliefs. Add a lack of education and you're smack in the middle of MAGA land.
I had this conversation with my mother-in-law’s partner just last night. She talked about moving to Mississippi from New York to teach in the nineties and finding out that her students were not only not taught critical thinking, they were taught it was evil. I live in Mississippi currently, and it has not changed. How do you even fight that?
Very well-written Jeff. THIS should be printed everywhere and discussed on all platforms.
Trump has said that "Mein Kampf" was his favorite book. I don't think that he can read that well so someone must have read it to him.
I think that is another Trump lie. But he has learned enough about the Third Reich to envy what Hitler did. Unlike normal people, who are repelled by the horror.
Trump is too chickensh*t to shoot anyone on 5th avenue or anywhere else. It is all of the disturbed, retarded, defective people who believe in all of the Big Lies that are the danger. That includes people in Congress and the DOJ. Trump worked hard on Project 2025 when he was in the White House from 2017 to 2021. The extent of his rigging of our government: the tax structure, "his" judges throughout the court system, his stealing and sale of classified secrets, and much more are being discovered all the time. Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth pale in comparison. There has never been a greater enemy of the United States than Donald J Trump.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Who was it that praised Washington's rag tag Revolutionary Army for liberating the airports that the British had seized in 1775?
I had an uncle that served in the 101st Airborne. He had to parachute into Nazi Germany. The majority of the German people that he came in contact with were thankfully kind, so he was kind to them. They didn't want war and death. They didn't want Hitler.
As the Allied forces entered Berlin and neared Hitler's bunker, Hitler and Eva took cyanide to commit suicide. People in the compound set it on fire and ran.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Bannon ,Miller , and on and on ,Shitler couldn’t have done it without his brown shirts,look at his business disasters ,these evil pricks are just as responsible!
I will never ever understand Trump's numbers going up. Is it possible there really are that many millions of people in the U.S. who are just like him and wish for this?
I'm thinking that his campaign is submitting false numbers or paying people to poll in his favor. Nothing would shock me when it comes to him.
They’re kind of like suicide bombers believing they’ll be in heaven when it’s done.
Mary, as Jeff has said on here before, those people are all members of the "leopards eating peoples faces" party. They truly believe that they will never be the ones whose faces get eaten, particularly by the leopard they themselves voted for.
Yes. Sad but true, this is exactly what they wish for.
They will have to live in the dictatorship Trump and his allies create....and they wont like it. Stupid, hateful f'ers. 🙄
There are so many of them. Honestly, I had no idea before Trump.
They didn’t vote, they didn’t attend rallies, they didn’t believe the politicians spoke for them. Sarah Palin nudged them awake, Bannon found his fascist, Stephen Miller provided the script, and all the swamp dwellers rose up and shouted “Yay!”
And as David Duke said after Trumps 2016 win, "With Trump we are now mainstream."
And yet the media pays for and publishes poll after bullshit poll.
Clickbait.
Why are you buying so many guns then?
My dad once quipped: IF you can keep your head while those about you lose theirs, perhaps you don’t understand the situation.
I am frustrated. What action within lawful means can we take? The courts, quite correctly, are hamstrung with due process. Ironically, actions to expedite remediation are exactly why we cannot.
We have a national party having made a Faustian bargain to secure power. We have cynical News agencies and Commentators whose paycheck is the driving force, damn the consequence.
I loathe bandying terms such as Fascist, yet what else comes to mind? MAGA-IST? Whatever the word, we must socialize the term in all its ugliness.
The notion of the deportation camps is incredible and for reason cited. The Japanese-American internment camps are instructive. They were not the concentration camps like Germany. Yet, those interned suffered economic loss. They lived in awful conditions like Manzanar in CA’s Owens Valley. In the end, and some years later, an apology of sorts. Sort of like “thoughts and prayers.”
We are on the precipice, yet the band plays on.
Yes. This.
When the media writes/broadcasts “is Biden too old?” Why don’t they ask “is Trump too fascist? Too racists? To scarey? Too nuts? “
Or also TOO OLD??? it’s not like he’s a spring chicken
The Media is gleefully complicit. They feel no guilt and don't accept any responsibility for the damage they cause on a daily basis.
We are all so tired and this is what they want. We get strength from each other so many thanks to you Jeff.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller, German pastor during the Nazi regime and concentration camp survivor
During his first run for the presidency, I, along with my fellow Jews, heard the echo of brown shirts and their leaders. I know others may have felt a tinge of familiarity with Hitlerism/Nazism, but most seemed to be deaf. Here we are, these many years later, and people are still ignoring what has become blatantly obvious. What are we waiting for? What are we confused about?
History IS repeating itself yet eyes and ears still close to what is now made obvious by spoken and written words. Is it comforting to ignore the danger all around us?
The DC Holocaust museum has one exhibit that examines the steps Hitler took toward the final solution. There is a recipe, and Trump is collecting all the ingredients including tens of millions of loyal followers. He has told us what he wants to create if elected, and it's up to all of us to stop him.
Thanks, Jeff, for providing incentive to take action... NOW! Before it's too late.
Yes I saw the DC Holocaust Museum and the way it showed the slow-but-sure progress to the death camps. It impressed me how it was handled.
Those who refuse to learn from history...
I appreciate that you are an ally in remembering what happened, and how it happened. We know what is possible in this world, and we should always be ready to resist.