Personally, I thought they were doing pretty good, sharing the wealth, but those types never share. They want it all.

... are the names of trDUMP's game.

Remember GeeDumbya Bush's "Healthy Forests", "Blue Skies", etc.? It was the opposite.

Coming to fruition at last. They were able to fully exploit the angst caused by melanin in the Oval Office.

Trump is a destroyer. He goes through life like a two year old who destroys everything in his path and considers it a job well done.

He doesn't know how to create anything himself, so he tears down everything others create.

Those of us who listened to them knew that.
The told us what they were going to do!
Project 2025 is really about cleaning house and eliminating the useless eaters and everything they depend on. And then stuffing their pockets, accounts and everything else that they can.
It never was about religion at all.But using religion to enrich themselves.

Never forget. Every time a disaster happens. Every time a new failure comes to light. Every injustice. Never let a complaint from one who didn't vote for Clinton and Harris pass without comment, Tr*mp voters and non-voters both. They did this. This was avoidable, they were warned, their choices are their fault.

…by their hatred of Black people.

I live in Alabama, in a town whose identity is completely invested in the antebellum era, when it was at its height of power and wealth. They've been trying to get back to this for a long, long time.

There is a significant population of Americans who hate, detest, and despise what this country ‘was’. People of color, immigrants, Jews, intellectuals, liberals, all interacting. This, they feel, was too much for them.

Hillary was right!

It’s been clear that his regime works daily to destroy us from the inside.

The press rarely states the obvious as this article has.

HUH??!! Remember THOSE famous words?

China, Russia, NK are all thrilled.

Their plan has been a success.

They tricked the US into destroying itself.

But as usual the oligarchs make out fine

This according to his old attorney Michael Cohen.

He wants to die richer than him but will not even accomplish that since he will die long before reaching $200 Billions. Even by exploiting the boats passing the strait while the taxpayers are charged to pay for the "protection" fleet.

And I think they have hidden most of their ill gotten gains.
I think they are way past $200B already.

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The Guardian is invaluable. Entertaining, too

But I pay every month for a subscription.
You get few online ads & some extras. I've been relying on The Guardian for a few years now. Rebecca Solnit's work is excellent. She's always worth reading.The USA news media isn't too trustworthy at this point. I don't know if our media is scared or paid off. Probably a bit of both. Canada CBC is a good source for radio news. I'm going to fire up my old Grundig Yacht Boy PE400 radio & start checking if anyone is broadcasting on the Shortwave bands. There used to be several countries that had pretty good news roundups. I realize a lot of that's on line but some nations still broadcast.

I will.

the repugs are destroying the U.S.
project 2025 is their plan, they are not done

I may never know who the original artist is. but one day a cheeky historian or museum curator will be absolutely correct to use this image to capture our particular political moment.

— Squat Erry Day (@implicitpower.bsky.social) 2025-08-08T18:46:36.215Z

From the OP link:

We have been there for a year. We still get flipped off, told to get a job and have boys act like they are going to run us over. Look at how other countries do it. Thousands and thousands of people go out into the streets. Here, we wait for elections and law suites that he ignores.
We can't ever criticize the German people again.

Or is 8 million protesters, the most in U.S. history, not enough?

"The US used to lead the world in scientific research, including medical research, which had led to important breakthroughs in disease treatment and health, but all that has been slashed to the bone and beyond. This is murder."

Red hatters are distracted by their cheering over brown people being deported..the shiny thing Trump jingles in their faces...they'll allow him to tear apart America in their bloodlust to make USA white..USA will never be white..half of babies are now Asian brown or black

What are we going to do about it?

Win the House. Win the Senate.
Failing that, there's really nothing left to lose.
Don't let anyone you know fail to Vote.
Last Chance???????

There's only one side here that is willing, even eager, to destroy everything in its quest for absolute power, and it's not the Democrats nor any part of the Left.

There are a number of Radical Right factions who see Trump as their ticket to grabbing all the marbles.

There has always been a faction of the Conservative Movement that had a sneaking admiration for the Bolsheviks. Not the ideology, of course, but for the ability of a small radical faction to play other factions against each other, maneuver for leverage, employ useful idiots to obfuscate their true intent, and being absolutely ruthless when they saw a chance to take total control.

These Conservo-Bolsheviks have always wanted to do away with the New Deal, get rid of the income tax, any program or policy that helps ordinary people. To them, America's "golden age" was literally that: the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when "great men" built great industries, amassed huge fortunes, and didn't have to put up with any damn government hampering them for trifles like "grinding people under their heels." This is the leadership of the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society and Project 2025, people like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh who actively worked to paint Democrats as "the enemy". They demonized Bill and Hillary Clinton so that less extreme Republicans wouldn't decide they could work with a "pro-business" Democrat who was content to work with and tweak the Reaganomics framework rather than to reverse it. If the squishier ones went that way, the Conservo-Bolsheviks could kiss any chance of more extreme measures goodbye. Thus, we've had the last 35 years, with Republicans hamstringing Democrats at every opportunity while going for broke whenever the opportunity presents itself, all while consistently putting conservative operatives on the Federal courts.

Overlapping with them are the Pluto-Bolsheviks. They share a lot of goals with the Conservo-Bolsheviks, but being the guys footing the bills, they want to make sure the outcome is tailored to their liking. This is the Kochs, the Mercers, all sorts of billionaires and multi-millionaires. This group was especially active in trying to get enough support for a new constitutional convention, where the nation's foundations could just be rewritten to their liking, locking in their own personal obsessions and making reform pretty much impossible. And by making reform impossible they would make revolution inevitable.

Next up are the Theo-Bolsheviks, an odd coalition of extremist Evangelical Protestants and right-wing Catholics. They think America has been in a moral nosedive since the 60s, and they're out to put the country "back" to a place it never really was, but the facade makes them all tingly. These are the various Trump-loving Evangelicals who rationalize his behavior as that of a modern King Cyrus, the hardliners of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Opus Dei people, all the Catholic RWers on the Supreme Court, etc. Even if the Theo-Bolsheiks came out on top, they're doomed to simply turn on each other due to the "Catholics aren't Christian" views of the Evangelicals. But for the time being they have enough in common with each other and the other factions that they can work together on "step 1: taking control."

The latest addition are the Techno-Bolsheviks: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and others who have adopted Curtis Yarvin as their guru. Yarvin argues that American democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations. They fully believe they're the only ones who have brains. The rest of us are pretty much insect drones, and lesser beings whose expertise can be replaced with AI. In other words, they're F***ING NUTS, and they'd be harmless if they were muttering into their cups together at some dive bar, but instead they're some of the richest men in the world, and their views overlap enough with the other groups that they're all useful to each other.

These are the people trying to murder the United States. This Confederacy of Right Wing Bolsheviks see Trump as a vehicle to fast-track their with lists and overrun any obstacle to seizing total power. This is not a "both sides" matter. Only one side has the knives out.

....holism and pluralism are integral to building back.

much longer.

Thanks to The Guardian for publishing what our MSM will not, even though her observations and the case she makes are irrefutable.

And how are the members of Trump's regime and its supporters not traitors?

No more letting people off the hook in the name of "comity" or "pragmatism". They need to pay a price.

Conservatives believe the government should provide only three basic functions. The military, the police, and the courts for business contracts. Social services and welfare should be provided by the church. Conservatives have been playing the long game while working towards this goal. For most people the government has always been a distant black box with no knowledge or understanding of how it works what it does or how it benefits us. Mostly because we never educated people about government much, mostly thanks to conservative efforts to prevent that to keep people ignorant and in the dark about what they were doing to destroy the government and the country. So the end result is that too many people supported the conservative agenda without realizing that they were screwing themselves and everyone else.

Fox News is poisoning this country. Turn all of that shit off.

We categorically refuse to plug the boobtube back into the wall electrical outlets.

Don't let their propaganda machines infect your hearts & minds, they will only irreparably damage you with their poisons.

Can't even have a decent human-to-human conversation with the volume cranked up (old ears, etc.)

There are many of us still working to stop the destruction!

This administration is is what republicans have been preaching decades. Every republican magat voted for THIS, twice! Every Dem voter who sat out last election, voted for THIS.