The 1930’s in Germany saw the rise of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was one of the most, if not the most, despicable people in the recorded history of Planet Earth. With a ruthless, unrelenting, lie-ridden program of propaganda, he managed to turn “normal” people into cult-like zombies. He created an atmosphere of hatred and rage. Citizens of Germany turned against other German citizens. Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people.
In 2016, we saw the election of Donald Trump to the Office of President of the United States of America. Donald Trump is the most despicable person ever to rise to power in the USA. I have no doubt that Russia’s behind-the-scenes support of Trump’s campaign was a crucial reason why Trump was elected President. I refer to Donald Trump as “America’s Disgrace and Presidential Accident.” He was also elected because many, many Americans did not take the time to educate themselves as to the despicable nature of Trump, did not hold him accountable for his constant, unending tirade of lies and propaganda, and did not understand that apathy (in this case, not voting) can lead to terrible consequences.
When one takes the time to think carefully about the menace to American society Donald Trump is, one can easily, as I’ve done, list out Donald Trump’s “firsts”:
• First exxx-President to have his company convicted for fraud
• First Presidential candidate to have bankrupted a casino business (three, in fact)
• First Presidential candidate to have had to pay $25 million to settle the lawsuit against him for his university scam (Trump University)
• First US citizen to be elected to US President with the assistance and support of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
• First US President to refer to White Supremacists (neo-NAZI’s and KKK’ers) as “fine” people
• First serial liar to be elected to US President
• First Grifter to be elected to US President
• First US President to divide US citizens, sowing and encouraging anger and hate
• First US President to attempt the extortion of the leader of friendly nation
• First US President to have a family member receive a $2 Billion payoff from a foreign government (the Saudi’s)
• First US President to bilk the US Treasury for millions of dollars (which he did by authorizing US Government agencies to purchase services from his solely-owned company)
• First President to be impeached twice
• First US President on whom the dictator of a foreign nation has damaging Kompromat
• First US President to incite an insurrection
• First US President to attempt the overturn of an election
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED TWICE
Donald Trump will achieve additional “firsts”, including:
• First exxx-President to be convicted of a felony
• First exxx-President to be sentenced to prison
Trump issued pardons to many of his insiders who committed crimes against the American People – to name some of those, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon. Trump has also said he will issue pardons to those who were convicted of criminal acts committed during the storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
Steve Bannon and two of his associates created a “Build the Wall” scam to bilk millions of dollars from thousands of Trump supporters. Two of Bannon’s associates were found guilty of that scam. Bannon was pardoned by Trump!
Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and his incompetent, inept, ignorant handling of Covid caused all of the inflation our country is experiencing. Let that sink in. Fraud Trump called Covid “a hoax”…. and, then, over 1 million Americans died. Let that sink in.
Former President Donald Trump said in 2016 that a president under indictment would "cripple the operations of our government" and create an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" -- years before he himself was indicted on federal charges while running for a second term as president.
Donald Trump made the decision to enter the 2024 Presidential race for only one reason – Trump thinks that entering the race for President will enable him to avoid accountability for the crimes he’s been (and will be) indicted for.
Going further, “I just don’t get it!” It is truly mind-boggling to me - how can ANY reasonable, educated American fall for a liar, con, fraud, fascist like Donald Trump?
That said, at least 30-35 million American voters have become members of the cult of Donald Trump. You could say the same exact thing about the ignorant, despicable people in Germany who aided and supported despicable Hitler’s rise to power.
THERE IS ONLY (please excuse the language) ONE GOD DAMN WAY to stop Donald Trump from totally destroying our democratic republic. VOTE. AND, VOTE ONLY FOR DEMOCRATS. WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND WE MUST RETAIN CONTROL OF THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT. AND, WE MUST NOT ONLY VOTE, WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE REGISTERS TO VOTE and GETS OUT TO VOTE. VOTER APATHY WILL LEAD TO ONLY ONE THING – THE COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
I always say, Hitler didn’t start with the gas chambers. He started with propaganda and scapegoating. He needed to get the buy-in before he was able to move forward with his plan. Ladies and gents, we are currently in the scapegoating-and-propaganda stage.
The scapegoating and propaganda stage in our country was initiated during the Reagan administration. You all know the story. The masters have now settled on their new mouthpiece. The corporate lust for world domination and retribution existed in Germany after WWI and those corporations, now multi-national, were never procecuted at Nuremburgh and have been planning for their next attempt ever since.
The problem with focusing so much on Hitler himself, as people are clearly doing with Trump, it fails to realize the system behind them that are the actual progenitors of murderous Fascism. You think that idiot Trump has any ideology other than what benefits him? There's no evidence to suggest it. This new rhetoric is Steven Miller.. who is clearly throwing his money behind the ideology of the base that's supporting it (and the billionaires at the top who think it's a winning strategy because they've always gone to it to destroy the power of labor). All these dialogues about how bad the individual at the top is obfuscate where the real danger comes from.
Joseph Goebbels chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda wannabe. You can tell he is the one behind the poisoning of the blood by immigrants. as he writes many of TFG's speeches. I can't even grasp how he can reconcile this with his Jewish faith. He truly is evil personified.
Stephen Miller has no connection to being a Jew and has rejected his ‘family’ in the deepest, most vile manner. When he was in middle school and high school he was already a damaged, anti-social leaning person who didn’t receive the necessary interventions for his oppositional behavior. His fellow students couldn’t stand him then, his family didn’t know what to do about his mental-behavioral issues and he grew up to be the sociopathic monster that he is today.
If Steven Miller had been assessed by a mental health clinician in middle school or high school he would have probably been diagnosed Anti-Social Personality Disorder or even Oppositional Personality Disorder. Both disorders develop into sociopathy once they turn 18 yo.
And, if the press did its job there are a lot more people who are not billionaires, or even millionaires to vote against them. But, with Oligarchs owning the press we have ourselves a William Randolph Hearst situation don't we!
Hearst is another name that's been relegated more to "socialite" than the Murdoch FOX levels of social manipulation that he was responsible for. I live in the Shaodow of his castle (literal), and curse his name every day I see it.
Since I always get in late, you missed my comment of exactly the same historical reference. The money lost the first world war, their annointed one riled the masses for their attempt in the 1930s, and unscathed by Nuremburgh, they have settled on their new mouth piece for their next go-round. The current propaganda machine was set up by those behind Reagan, but time was not ripe without the masses being cultishly riled up, as they are now, by the smelly rotting orange.
It's truly amazing how many in Reagan's realm of influence still had their hands in politics for Trump. Even Nixon hangers on made it in some capacity. When no one is really held accountable (Maybe Agnew), the rot is never dealt with.
And remember, rust never sleeps. Democracy needs the constant application of Ospho to keep it in check, if you understand what I mean.
Reagan was another mouth piece, prepared by General Electric Theater to be the trusted voice of the coming fascist movement. Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes .... all were on it then, and Murdoch's money brought us Faux News.
💯 The levers for keeping a lot of that in check in the past have become either complicit, or silent. It's amazing how influential an idiot with a monkey was able to become with media grooming. And..Bannon's school board "war plan" seems to have been more effective than it was reported.
I completely agree that Stephen Miller is behind the actual words Trump is using. We know Trump doesn’t read and is illiterate with very limited vocabulary.
Brilliant and spot on Joel. If only the New York Times and other Trump-enabling media outlets would spell everything out like you have, we'd have a hell of better chance of seeing the mango madman fascism get derailed like it should.
Hey Joel, I agree with all of this. I've been reading comments further down, and it would be excellent if the different media outlets would band together and vow that any article they write about The Orange Crime Factory, they should have your bullet point list of firsts included every time, or a similar list, adding a bullet point "first elected president to openly say he commits sexual assault and grabs women by the pussy and force-kisses them".
The press is indeed a culprit in this historical mess...starting with Fox. I canceled my Times subscription. Their editors need to read your piece today...as if they'll even care, I suppose. I'm not sure how we combat media manipulation. Maybe it all starts with sharing your good work.
I ditched them and cancelled my subscription in November 2016. I refuse to read their content ever gain. I got rid of CNN as well. They both gave Herr tRump a huge amount of free publicity that year and they are part of the problem here. The relentless pursuit of profits may be the undoing of our country.
Jay Kuo, Joyce Vance, and others...so many great Substack writers. I cant keep up, HA! But I share...and maybe some on Facebook dont want to see it, but damn it, they need to.
You are spread as thin as me, Susan. Your comments are on all the too many Substacks I follow! Sleep? What sleep. Us old farts don't need sleep! (speakin for myself)
I'm thinning my list of addictions. Too much lead and cadmium in chocolate, too many calories in alcohol... on and on...At least I'm getting close to my ideal weight. Sleep is great, but the task master here always has somethin to get me crackin before my early morning REM is over. Grrrr. There are so many good writers on these posts. My rear end gets sore from too much reading on a cheap chair.
• Putin’s failure to get his puppet Trump reelected in Nov 2020
• Criminal Trump being INDICTED FOUR TIMES
Things I’m thankful for:
• The FBI taking down for the count (i.e., Babbittizing) the Fraud Trump MAGAt who threatened to murder President Biden
• Multi-year prison sentences handed out to Fraud Trump’s Oaf Keepers and Proud Boys
• Criminal Trump’s constant whining, crying and screaming at the sky
Things I’m thankful for:
• The exposure of SCOTUS Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas as justices on the take
• The upcoming convictions of Criminal Trump
• The upcoming prison sentences that will be doled out to Criminal Trump
Things I’m thankful for:
• The fact that it’s been revealed that Fraud Trump would be in the poor house if it were not for the billions of dollars Russian Mafia and Oligarchs laundered through Fraud Trump’s condo projects
• Fraud Trump’s ridiculous assumption that entering the 2024 race would prevent law enforcement from indicting and trying him for his crimes against the American People
Things I’m thankful for:
• The fact that Trump has already been convicted on 17 counts of Fraud
• The fact that Criminal Trump has absolutely zero chance of ever being elected President again
• The fact that President Joe Biden has managed to bring the American economy back from the brink of disaster and the high inflation caused by Fraud Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and inept and incompetent handling of Covid at the outset of Covid
• The fact that there will be a BLUE TSUNAMI in Nov 2024, allowing Democrats to take firm control of the Presidency, the Senate and the House
Trump brings in more media dollars than Biden. If Trump is elected, the NYT would be in big trouble though. I keep coming back to the Lenin quote about the capitalist selling the rope that will be used to hang him.
Seriously! He will do much more than label them Fake News. NYT should be fighting for its life right now and that means supporting our real president! This both sides BS will put us in an autocracy.
You have it. The NYT appears to be acting on money and fear. That bending to Trump won’t save them now. If trump wins, he will make sure that the “former” NYT never writes the “wrong” message about him again. Save your jobs now fools - look at what happened to the papers in Hong Kong.
The NYT and other msm fawned over Trump in the 2016 campaign,the 2020 campaign and they are still doing it. It is past time to continue doing this for ratings since our very democracy is on the line here. I cancelled my on-line NYT subscription last week and I told the person on the other end of the line that I was sick and tired of their normalizing Trump when he is an extremist, far right wing demagogue and I could no longer abide with a lot of their editorials.
Would someone please kindly explain to my why any BLACK or HISPANIC voter would vote for Liar Fraud Con Traitor Racist Nazi Trump? It should be blatantly obvious to everyone that Fraud Trump hates BLACKS and HISPANICS.
There are many Hispanics in Florida who are: white, Christian, & anti Socialist. They are usually well to do & see no need to allow poor Hispanics from the “other” countries come to the U.S. en masse.
They brought their elitism from their home countries to their respective diaspora in the US. They were the power behind dictatorships in South and Central America.
A common misconception is that race rather than post colonial capitalist class motivates voters. Same here in the UK where left wing leaning pundits cannot understand why the UK’s far right government possesses so many from immigrant backgrounds. Shared brutalist Strongman Empire building ideologies.
It took Putin and his predecessors nearly 40 years to groom Donald Trump to destroy Democracy and the American political system.
Every educated person knows that Con Trump was on the verge of bankruptcy before Russian Mafioso and Russian Oligarchs, all directed by Putin to do so, began laundering billions of dirty money through Trump’s condo projects; this latter dirty money turned Trump’s fortunes around. One can only begin to imagine the damaging Kompromat Putin has on Trump.
Later on, during 2014-2016, Putin invested billions of dollars to support Trump’s run for President. Americans were completed snowed under with fake news and false information.
It was not a coincidence that Traitor Trump’s first meeting after he got rid of FBI Director Comey was with two Russian slime - in private - in the Oval Office.
It was not a coincidence that Traitor Trump insisted he had to meet with Putin alone and that any/all notes were destroyed.
Traitor Trump is Vladimir Putin’s puppet. Putin got his puppet into the White House in 2016. But, Putin failed to repeat that in 2020. Trump will get demolished in 2024.
Republican Michael Luttig, retired Federal Judge and one of the nation’s leading conservative legal minds, on Donald J Trump:
--“Donald Trump has corrupted American Democracy.”
--“Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to American Democracy.”
WHERE IS THE "RUSSIA BINDER"? WHO DID TRAITOR TRUMP GIVE IT TO?
Ah, the polls. My only hope is that those favoring the orange messiah, will scare the bejesus out of people and get them to vote to prove those polls wrong.
Ummmm, who owns the Times? Or WaPo? Rich, evil, asshole billionaires, who don’t want Biden or the Dems who are happy to get behind unions, reproductive rights, and voting rights. All the billionaires want is cheap labor for their meat grinder jobs. Their editorial policies prove that. 🤢
Thank you Jeff. I know you are just testing the upper limits of my blood pressure. Well, not you actually, however, the New York Times. As you know, if there was a policy wonk running on the Democratic ticket, and a policy wonk on the Republican ticket, discussing, maybe even having a mild disagreement about whether long-term capital gains tax should be increased by a point or two, and the subsequent potential impact on capital formation in seeding new enterprise, people would be lining the birdcage with the newspaper and then going to the remote to watch football, NASCAR, or whatever trouble the Kardashians are getting into today.
The last thing the mainstream media wants is an intelligent debate on wealth inequality, foreign policy, or inflation (other then to blame someone -instead of CEO's and institutional investors -who are major campaign and PAC donors).
They want a cage match -effectively a Presidential WWE event. The last thing they want is to have to pay for journalism and research to write columns, inform and educate society. That's so last century boring. They simply want to stick a microphone up to Mr. Adolph -the orange talking Hitler horse 24x7 and then watch the ad revenue pour in.
But I do appreciate your wistfully nostalgic view of the Fourth Estate Jeff.
Slightly off topic but me thinks this is more of what Citizens United hath wrought. Intelligent debate about financial issues critical to your children's ability to rely on Social Security in their old age? Fugget about it!
Insightful comment, Geoge P. I had to reread it to see if you were talking about the MSM (ABC,NBC,CBS) or the Amercan electorate. Because the typical American voter today wants the simple-minded clickbait when they're scanning the headlines;; the majority aren't actually interested in reading its contents. And of course, TV news is by definition mostly superficial, their typical viewers are even less engaged. Entertainment! And make it short and sweet! So the corporate media give them what they want. (WAPO is privately owned, but Bezos wants maximum eyeballs too, so they play to the same lowest common denominator). Can't risk antagonizing any Republican-leaning subscriber! Or a MAGA-leaning viewer, could result in lower monthly ratings and reduced ad revenue! Yup, they're mainly in the business of competing with each other for an ever-declining readership or a broadcast audience that increasingly prefers YouTube videos or TikTok. The role of the Fourth Estate has been seriously diminished by the smartphone-entertainment takeover of American's attention spans. May they find their niche in today's 'strange new world'.
No question it has all become monetization driven. So viewers/readers drive the content. It has been said a society gets the government they deserve. There are just too many who have sacrificed and dedicated themselves to equity, justice, and democracy who are overmatched by organized wealth and the GOP shills they control.
Back when Reagan was spouting trickle down economics, the gray lady (who could be bought for the night) never even presented the economics of this hair brain theory. They wanted the redistribution of wealth. TO the top 2%....
There is nothing new about their actions, they have just become move blatant.
Unfortunately, “History Repeats Itself”.
The 1930’s in Germany saw the rise of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was one of the most, if not the most, despicable people in the recorded history of Planet Earth. With a ruthless, unrelenting, lie-ridden program of propaganda, he managed to turn “normal” people into cult-like zombies. He created an atmosphere of hatred and rage. Citizens of Germany turned against other German citizens. Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people.
In 2016, we saw the election of Donald Trump to the Office of President of the United States of America. Donald Trump is the most despicable person ever to rise to power in the USA. I have no doubt that Russia’s behind-the-scenes support of Trump’s campaign was a crucial reason why Trump was elected President. I refer to Donald Trump as “America’s Disgrace and Presidential Accident.” He was also elected because many, many Americans did not take the time to educate themselves as to the despicable nature of Trump, did not hold him accountable for his constant, unending tirade of lies and propaganda, and did not understand that apathy (in this case, not voting) can lead to terrible consequences.
When one takes the time to think carefully about the menace to American society Donald Trump is, one can easily, as I’ve done, list out Donald Trump’s “firsts”:
• First exxx-President to have his company convicted for fraud
• First Presidential candidate to have bankrupted a casino business (three, in fact)
• First Presidential candidate to have had to pay $25 million to settle the lawsuit against him for his university scam (Trump University)
• First US citizen to be elected to US President with the assistance and support of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
• First US President to refer to White Supremacists (neo-NAZI’s and KKK’ers) as “fine” people
• First serial liar to be elected to US President
• First Grifter to be elected to US President
• First US President to divide US citizens, sowing and encouraging anger and hate
• First US President to attempt the extortion of the leader of friendly nation
• First US President to have a family member receive a $2 Billion payoff from a foreign government (the Saudi’s)
• First US President to bilk the US Treasury for millions of dollars (which he did by authorizing US Government agencies to purchase services from his solely-owned company)
• First President to be impeached twice
• First US President on whom the dictator of a foreign nation has damaging Kompromat
• First US President to incite an insurrection
• First US President to attempt the overturn of an election
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED TWICE
Donald Trump will achieve additional “firsts”, including:
• First exxx-President to be convicted of a felony
• First exxx-President to be sentenced to prison
Trump issued pardons to many of his insiders who committed crimes against the American People – to name some of those, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon. Trump has also said he will issue pardons to those who were convicted of criminal acts committed during the storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
Steve Bannon and two of his associates created a “Build the Wall” scam to bilk millions of dollars from thousands of Trump supporters. Two of Bannon’s associates were found guilty of that scam. Bannon was pardoned by Trump!
Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and his incompetent, inept, ignorant handling of Covid caused all of the inflation our country is experiencing. Let that sink in. Fraud Trump called Covid “a hoax”…. and, then, over 1 million Americans died. Let that sink in.
Former President Donald Trump said in 2016 that a president under indictment would "cripple the operations of our government" and create an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" -- years before he himself was indicted on federal charges while running for a second term as president.
Donald Trump made the decision to enter the 2024 Presidential race for only one reason – Trump thinks that entering the race for President will enable him to avoid accountability for the crimes he’s been (and will be) indicted for.
Going further, “I just don’t get it!” It is truly mind-boggling to me - how can ANY reasonable, educated American fall for a liar, con, fraud, fascist like Donald Trump?
That said, at least 30-35 million American voters have become members of the cult of Donald Trump. You could say the same exact thing about the ignorant, despicable people in Germany who aided and supported despicable Hitler’s rise to power.
THERE IS ONLY (please excuse the language) ONE GOD DAMN WAY to stop Donald Trump from totally destroying our democratic republic. VOTE. AND, VOTE ONLY FOR DEMOCRATS. WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND WE MUST RETAIN CONTROL OF THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT. AND, WE MUST NOT ONLY VOTE, WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE REGISTERS TO VOTE and GETS OUT TO VOTE. VOTER APATHY WILL LEAD TO ONLY ONE THING – THE COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
I always say, Hitler didn’t start with the gas chambers. He started with propaganda and scapegoating. He needed to get the buy-in before he was able to move forward with his plan. Ladies and gents, we are currently in the scapegoating-and-propaganda stage.
Slow-boiling that frog...
I've give it a good rolling boil image right now. 2024 will tell us if we save the frog's life before it's too late.
Yes.
The scapegoating and propaganda stage in our country was initiated during the Reagan administration. You all know the story. The masters have now settled on their new mouthpiece. The corporate lust for world domination and retribution existed in Germany after WWI and those corporations, now multi-national, were never procecuted at Nuremburgh and have been planning for their next attempt ever since.
The problem with focusing so much on Hitler himself, as people are clearly doing with Trump, it fails to realize the system behind them that are the actual progenitors of murderous Fascism. You think that idiot Trump has any ideology other than what benefits him? There's no evidence to suggest it. This new rhetoric is Steven Miller.. who is clearly throwing his money behind the ideology of the base that's supporting it (and the billionaires at the top who think it's a winning strategy because they've always gone to it to destroy the power of labor). All these dialogues about how bad the individual at the top is obfuscate where the real danger comes from.
Fucking Stephen Miller gives me the creeps.
Joseph Goebbels chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda wannabe. You can tell he is the one behind the poisoning of the blood by immigrants. as he writes many of TFG's speeches. I can't even grasp how he can reconcile this with his Jewish faith. He truly is evil personified.
Stephen Miller has no connection to being a Jew and has rejected his ‘family’ in the deepest, most vile manner. When he was in middle school and high school he was already a damaged, anti-social leaning person who didn’t receive the necessary interventions for his oppositional behavior. His fellow students couldn’t stand him then, his family didn’t know what to do about his mental-behavioral issues and he grew up to be the sociopathic monster that he is today.
If Steven Miller had been assessed by a mental health clinician in middle school or high school he would have probably been diagnosed Anti-Social Personality Disorder or even Oppositional Personality Disorder. Both disorders develop into sociopathy once they turn 18 yo.
He hasn’t changed a bit…repulsive and arrogant, the definition of an asshole
He is such a disgusting POS that, if he fell off of a 300’ tall building, 75% of American adults would, in unison, say, “Hallelujah!”
He reads Mein Kamph to the shitgibbon at bedtime.
ikr.
He has dead eyes.
He definitely does.
And, if the press did its job there are a lot more people who are not billionaires, or even millionaires to vote against them. But, with Oligarchs owning the press we have ourselves a William Randolph Hearst situation don't we!
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/new-york-times#:~:text=Nicknamed%20The%20Gray%20Lady%2C%20The,publisher%20and%20the%20company's%20chairman.
Look at the shareholder board.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/THE-NEW-YORK-TIMES-COMPAN-13865/company/
Hearst is another name that's been relegated more to "socialite" than the Murdoch FOX levels of social manipulation that he was responsible for. I live in the Shaodow of his castle (literal), and curse his name every day I see it.
Since I always get in late, you missed my comment of exactly the same historical reference. The money lost the first world war, their annointed one riled the masses for their attempt in the 1930s, and unscathed by Nuremburgh, they have settled on their new mouth piece for their next go-round. The current propaganda machine was set up by those behind Reagan, but time was not ripe without the masses being cultishly riled up, as they are now, by the smelly rotting orange.
Hold on to your hat.
It's truly amazing how many in Reagan's realm of influence still had their hands in politics for Trump. Even Nixon hangers on made it in some capacity. When no one is really held accountable (Maybe Agnew), the rot is never dealt with.
And remember, rust never sleeps. Democracy needs the constant application of Ospho to keep it in check, if you understand what I mean.
Reagan was another mouth piece, prepared by General Electric Theater to be the trusted voice of the coming fascist movement. Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes .... all were on it then, and Murdoch's money brought us Faux News.
💯 The levers for keeping a lot of that in check in the past have become either complicit, or silent. It's amazing how influential an idiot with a monkey was able to become with media grooming. And..Bannon's school board "war plan" seems to have been more effective than it was reported.
When times look nice, Dems go to youth soccer, while the fascistbaptistkristyuns work around the clock schemeing their next moves. Rust?? anybody??
Corporate media's both sidesisms is complicit in the distraction.
So true. We’ve been going down this road for a long time.
I completely agree that Stephen Miller is behind the actual words Trump is using. We know Trump doesn’t read and is illiterate with very limited vocabulary.
👏👏👏👏 All of what you just said. ALL of it.
THANK you for posting the video made about the Florida student who spoke about "Bridget" from MOM's of (NOT!) LIBERTY.
Amen!
Well said👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Brilliant and spot on Joel. If only the New York Times and other Trump-enabling media outlets would spell everything out like you have, we'd have a hell of better chance of seeing the mango madman fascism get derailed like it should.
Thanks, Rick
Thank you for taking the time to put into writing what my brain is screaming!
Hey Joel, I agree with all of this. I've been reading comments further down, and it would be excellent if the different media outlets would band together and vow that any article they write about The Orange Crime Factory, they should have your bullet point list of firsts included every time, or a similar list, adding a bullet point "first elected president to openly say he commits sexual assault and grabs women by the pussy and force-kisses them".
In our dreams !
Here’s the bumpersticker. 3 lines:
🇺🇸VOTE DEMOCRAT 11/5/24🇺🇸
IT MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE
and don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Hitler repeats itself
Sure
Of course.
MAGA believers are as delusional as Trump. there is no educating.
I believe that’s a miracle!
The press is indeed a culprit in this historical mess...starting with Fox. I canceled my Times subscription. Their editors need to read your piece today...as if they'll even care, I suppose. I'm not sure how we combat media manipulation. Maybe it all starts with sharing your good work.
I ditched them and cancelled my subscription in November 2016. I refuse to read their content ever gain. I got rid of CNN as well. They both gave Herr tRump a huge amount of free publicity that year and they are part of the problem here. The relentless pursuit of profits may be the undoing of our country.
BAM, you got it
with a lot of paid advertising. and good commercials too, not the useless beltway pablum.
I canceled my WaPo for the same reason. MSM is becoming an adjunct of Fox News.
I totally agree. What the hell!?
Jay Kuo, Joyce Vance, and others...so many great Substack writers. I cant keep up, HA! But I share...and maybe some on Facebook dont want to see it, but damn it, they need to.
You are spread as thin as me, Susan. Your comments are on all the too many Substacks I follow! Sleep? What sleep. Us old farts don't need sleep! (speakin for myself)
Im addicted to sleep! But I also love to read-this is such a great platform featuring so many wonderful writers!!
I'm thinning my list of addictions. Too much lead and cadmium in chocolate, too many calories in alcohol... on and on...At least I'm getting close to my ideal weight. Sleep is great, but the task master here always has somethin to get me crackin before my early morning REM is over. Grrrr. There are so many good writers on these posts. My rear end gets sore from too much reading on a cheap chair.
AS THE NEW YEAR APPROACHES……
Things I’m thankful for:
• The crushing defeat of Fraud Trump in Nov 2020
• Putin’s failure to get his puppet Trump reelected in Nov 2020
• Criminal Trump being INDICTED FOUR TIMES
Things I’m thankful for:
• The FBI taking down for the count (i.e., Babbittizing) the Fraud Trump MAGAt who threatened to murder President Biden
• Multi-year prison sentences handed out to Fraud Trump’s Oaf Keepers and Proud Boys
• Criminal Trump’s constant whining, crying and screaming at the sky
Things I’m thankful for:
• The exposure of SCOTUS Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas as justices on the take
• The upcoming convictions of Criminal Trump
• The upcoming prison sentences that will be doled out to Criminal Trump
Things I’m thankful for:
• The fact that it’s been revealed that Fraud Trump would be in the poor house if it were not for the billions of dollars Russian Mafia and Oligarchs laundered through Fraud Trump’s condo projects
• Fraud Trump’s ridiculous assumption that entering the 2024 race would prevent law enforcement from indicting and trying him for his crimes against the American People
Things I’m thankful for:
• The fact that Trump has already been convicted on 17 counts of Fraud
• The fact that Criminal Trump has absolutely zero chance of ever being elected President again
• The fact that President Joe Biden has managed to bring the American economy back from the brink of disaster and the high inflation caused by Fraud Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and inept and incompetent handling of Covid at the outset of Covid
• The fact that there will be a BLUE TSUNAMI in Nov 2024, allowing Democrats to take firm control of the Presidency, the Senate and the House
Ignore the MSM bullshit. We're going to kick their asses
That’s the kind of language I like to hear!
Please baby Jesus I hope you’re right
And, in the Dec 19th article, what's with the "Mr. Biden" crap!? Is he no longer President?
Trump brings in more media dollars than Biden. If Trump is elected, the NYT would be in big trouble though. I keep coming back to the Lenin quote about the capitalist selling the rope that will be used to hang him.
Seriously! He will do much more than label them Fake News. NYT should be fighting for its life right now and that means supporting our real president! This both sides BS will put us in an autocracy.
You have it. The NYT appears to be acting on money and fear. That bending to Trump won’t save them now. If trump wins, he will make sure that the “former” NYT never writes the “wrong” message about him again. Save your jobs now fools - look at what happened to the papers in Hong Kong.
The NYT and other msm fawned over Trump in the 2016 campaign,the 2020 campaign and they are still doing it. It is past time to continue doing this for ratings since our very democracy is on the line here. I cancelled my on-line NYT subscription last week and I told the person on the other end of the line that I was sick and tired of their normalizing Trump when he is an extremist, far right wing demagogue and I could no longer abide with a lot of their editorials.
trump is the biggest scumbag in american politics.
And that’s quite an achievement in a category as dirty as it is. Which descends to a level as ugly as I’ve ever witnessed.
trump is the biggest scumbag in american politics.
In American politics?
scumbag is being kind
He is loud enough to take the media attention away from the VERY worst.
Would someone please kindly explain to my why any BLACK or HISPANIC voter would vote for Liar Fraud Con Traitor Racist Nazi Trump? It should be blatantly obvious to everyone that Fraud Trump hates BLACKS and HISPANICS.
Yes,I agree with you.Also women.How could any self-respecting female be for this man?This is my opinion.
Just take a look at Elise Stefanik. She originally had a future and fell from grace. She’s a POS.
How about Jewish people voting for him?? Explain THAT to me! My parents, who were Holocaust victims, are rolling over in their graves.
There are many Hispanics in Florida who are: white, Christian, & anti Socialist. They are usually well to do & see no need to allow poor Hispanics from the “other” countries come to the U.S. en masse.
They brought their elitism from their home countries to their respective diaspora in the US. They were the power behind dictatorships in South and Central America.
A common misconception is that race rather than post colonial capitalist class motivates voters. Same here in the UK where left wing leaning pundits cannot understand why the UK’s far right government possesses so many from immigrant backgrounds. Shared brutalist Strongman Empire building ideologies.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE REST OF YOU, BUT I THINK IT IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING AND DISGRACEFUL THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS IS ON THE TAKE.
He’s not the only one!
It took Putin and his predecessors nearly 40 years to groom Donald Trump to destroy Democracy and the American political system.
Every educated person knows that Con Trump was on the verge of bankruptcy before Russian Mafioso and Russian Oligarchs, all directed by Putin to do so, began laundering billions of dirty money through Trump’s condo projects; this latter dirty money turned Trump’s fortunes around. One can only begin to imagine the damaging Kompromat Putin has on Trump.
Later on, during 2014-2016, Putin invested billions of dollars to support Trump’s run for President. Americans were completed snowed under with fake news and false information.
It was not a coincidence that Traitor Trump’s first meeting after he got rid of FBI Director Comey was with two Russian slime - in private - in the Oval Office.
It was not a coincidence that Traitor Trump insisted he had to meet with Putin alone and that any/all notes were destroyed.
Traitor Trump is Vladimir Putin’s puppet. Putin got his puppet into the White House in 2016. But, Putin failed to repeat that in 2020. Trump will get demolished in 2024.
Republican Michael Luttig, retired Federal Judge and one of the nation’s leading conservative legal minds, on Donald J Trump:
--“Donald Trump has corrupted American Democracy.”
--“Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to American Democracy.”
WHERE IS THE "RUSSIA BINDER"? WHO DID TRAITOR TRUMP GIVE IT TO?
I like how you think Joel.
Thanks
Absolutely agreeing with you, Joel.
The fucking Russkies , Chinese and others have it!!! The LDDF sold copies to the highest bidder!!
Ah, the polls. My only hope is that those favoring the orange messiah, will scare the bejesus out of people and get them to vote to prove those polls wrong.
The NYT editors are grasping on behalf of all the worst of those who consider themselves the elites. Pretty disgusting. No, very disgusting.
Ummmm, who owns the Times? Or WaPo? Rich, evil, asshole billionaires, who don’t want Biden or the Dems who are happy to get behind unions, reproductive rights, and voting rights. All the billionaires want is cheap labor for their meat grinder jobs. Their editorial policies prove that. 🤢
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Thank you Jeff. I know you are just testing the upper limits of my blood pressure. Well, not you actually, however, the New York Times. As you know, if there was a policy wonk running on the Democratic ticket, and a policy wonk on the Republican ticket, discussing, maybe even having a mild disagreement about whether long-term capital gains tax should be increased by a point or two, and the subsequent potential impact on capital formation in seeding new enterprise, people would be lining the birdcage with the newspaper and then going to the remote to watch football, NASCAR, or whatever trouble the Kardashians are getting into today.
The last thing the mainstream media wants is an intelligent debate on wealth inequality, foreign policy, or inflation (other then to blame someone -instead of CEO's and institutional investors -who are major campaign and PAC donors).
They want a cage match -effectively a Presidential WWE event. The last thing they want is to have to pay for journalism and research to write columns, inform and educate society. That's so last century boring. They simply want to stick a microphone up to Mr. Adolph -the orange talking Hitler horse 24x7 and then watch the ad revenue pour in.
But I do appreciate your wistfully nostalgic view of the Fourth Estate Jeff.
Merry Christmas.
Slightly off topic but me thinks this is more of what Citizens United hath wrought. Intelligent debate about financial issues critical to your children's ability to rely on Social Security in their old age? Fugget about it!
That's the root of everything.
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Insightful comment, Geoge P. I had to reread it to see if you were talking about the MSM (ABC,NBC,CBS) or the Amercan electorate. Because the typical American voter today wants the simple-minded clickbait when they're scanning the headlines;; the majority aren't actually interested in reading its contents. And of course, TV news is by definition mostly superficial, their typical viewers are even less engaged. Entertainment! And make it short and sweet! So the corporate media give them what they want. (WAPO is privately owned, but Bezos wants maximum eyeballs too, so they play to the same lowest common denominator). Can't risk antagonizing any Republican-leaning subscriber! Or a MAGA-leaning viewer, could result in lower monthly ratings and reduced ad revenue! Yup, they're mainly in the business of competing with each other for an ever-declining readership or a broadcast audience that increasingly prefers YouTube videos or TikTok. The role of the Fourth Estate has been seriously diminished by the smartphone-entertainment takeover of American's attention spans. May they find their niche in today's 'strange new world'.
No question it has all become monetization driven. So viewers/readers drive the content. It has been said a society gets the government they deserve. There are just too many who have sacrificed and dedicated themselves to equity, justice, and democracy who are overmatched by organized wealth and the GOP shills they control.
That’s why I cancelled my NYT subscription long ago.
Back when Reagan was spouting trickle down economics, the gray lady (who could be bought for the night) never even presented the economics of this hair brain theory. They wanted the redistribution of wealth. TO the top 2%....
There is nothing new about their actions, they have just become move blatant.
This hits the nail on the head