There is a swelling of disgust against Trump. Finally, as I’ve said before, people across the country are opening their eyes and really *seeing* him and what he’s doing. They know what Trump is trying to do. They know he is only thinking about himself. He’s trying to change our democracy into a dictatorship. And he’s starting to succeed. From AlterNet:
His economy is a disaster. He promised to bring down prices, yet the prices of most goods are rising. Food prices are soaring. Job growth has stalled. American manufacturing has contracted. Trump’s poll numbers are dropping like stones. The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt him. He’s now trying to deflect attention from his failures by renaming the Defense Department the War Department and threatening to occupy if not go to war with Chicago (“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR” read a White House post yesterday).
War with a city in our country. IN OUR COUNTRY. Not against another nation, you notice. Our country. What the holy hell. He’s only supporting other nations, although he hasn’t been doing much of that lately, especially for places like Ukraine, which desperately need it. Not supporting much means more time to figure out what to do for his dictatorship.
He ran for President to stay out of jail. He didn’t want the job for any other reason, just to sign a few things and go back to playing golf. We know this. And he’s … irritated because he has to actually work. So he started his insidious campaign to make the country his and his only. Then he can work on his golf, even though he cheats like a two-it hustler.
Yet most Americans don’t want federal troops in our cities and don’t want a war-mongering America. His immigration dragnet is deeply unpopular. He surrounds himself with sycophants and lapdogs who tell him only how wonderfully he’s doing — he fires anyone who tells him the truth — which means he’s flying blind and doesn’t know how badly he’s doing.
Trump’s rampage is inadvertently teaching many Americans the importance of things we once took for granted: democracy, the rule of law, due process, federalism, checks and balances. As well as the value of several programs we took for granted, such as Medicaid, food assistance, and child vaccines.
Well, it’s about damn time. Others are stepping up to say “HELL no”. Look at the protests! Look at the failure of his military parade. Look at him order a flyover while Epstein survivors speak. He’s scared that he’s in there, even though his DOJ/FBI lackeys ordered 1,000 FBI agents to go through the Epstein files and either redact them or completely pull them out to keep somewhere else, although I would bet they were shredded and then burned.
A new cohort of progressive young candidates is catching on with voters. The federal courts are doing a commendable job of refusing to go along with what Trump wants. But we remain in grave danger. The Oval Office is occupied by a sociopath. His twisted lackeys Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and RFK Jr. are doing terrible harm. His congressional enablers in the Republican Party have relinquished their integrity and kissed his derriere to remain in office. An authoritarian if not neofascist takeover of America is still occurring.
So what do we do now? Following Gavin Newsom’s lead is what we do. Don’t give up. Be energized to take the brawl to Trump. Gavin is doing a pretty awesome job of trolling Trump, so he’s not thinking about stupid things like filing yet another lawsuit, or going after another school, or setting even bigger quotes to drag illegal immigrants, that aren’t illegal, away from their lives and stuffed into a detainment center so they can rehome them in another country that they do not know. I’m waiting for someone else to be “brave” and step up. I wonder how long it will take.
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What an absolutely deranged piece full of horribly misguided and quite frankly weird opinions.
You know, you have a very interesting way of pointing out the truth.
About YOUR comments. They’re ALWAYS “deranged” and “full of horribly misguided and weird opinions.”
I’ve never seen anyone take the time to comment about their own stupidity the way you do, Comrade.
Oh really mark, hey mark what knd of man supports pedos mark? You sick fuk
Thanks for quoting me I guess although I’m not sure you’re making any sense.
Turning democracy into dictatorship, starting a war in our own country, he only ran for President to stay out of jail? Pretty deranged and weird I’d say.