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.
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.
• 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🤢
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.
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.