Yes indeed—the Trump administration *is* a host of firsts! Most corrupt. Most perverse. Most perverted. Most delusional. Most unloved. While citizens struggle, Trump (not so) secretly secures billions in personal wealth. O happy day!
The biggest problem America has with Trump is that he has no clue how to govern. Whom did he pick as staff? Pam Bondi. Kristen Nome. Pete Hegseth. This guy only made it to major, and he’s firing combat-hardened, well-seasoned generals for no reason whatsoever. And he who says he can win wars in three weeks? No sympathy for that devil.
Three more years of this portends the end of the US. The consequences of all of the damage this madman has created up to this point has pushed us to the edge of the cliff. Three more years and it’s game over. This has to end very soon.
As briefly as I can, and not addressing everything:
Our education systems are suffering under this administration.
Our public health is being dismantled.
The Defense Department funding is taking away from the other important functions of the government.
Climate change dollars are being diverted.
The list includes every single thing that government is structured to do for the people.
If you have read P2025, it clearly lays down the framework for dismantling the government. Mr. Vought and Co. are meeting it's goals faster than I imagined.
I understand everything you are saying and I’m very aware of Project 2025 but I also am a firm believer that all of that can be reversed.
They are in free fall politically, and when they are gone we will rise to the challenge of rebuilding.
We came back from the Great Depression and we built up our industrial capacity to overcome the Axis powers in WWII. Then we rebuilt the devastation in Europe with the Marshall Plan. Those were much bigger challenges than we will face when MAGA and Trump are gone, which they will be.
Mr. Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are pipsqueaks compared to Hitler and Tojo. Cheer up girl!
You know David, I am cheerful. I don't have your optimism about recovery, and I hope I am wrong. I have been watching the Republicans for 60 years and this has always been the plan. It's just accelerated at an incredible pace. That said, I see what my kids are facing, and in their lifetime I don't think they will recover. Maybe in my grandkids lifetime.
A 2019 Georgetown University study found that affluent children with low test scores have a 71% chance of being affluent adults at age 25 compared to only a 31% chance for poor children with high test scores.
The rethuglicans are determined to perpetuate this.
The task for Democrats is to persuade as many independent voters as possible that while Trump was doing his worst he had unflinching support from elected Republicans. At the right time they can also try to tell them that Trump's grip on the Republican party is likely to extend after he leaves the Oval Office. Unless he mercifully enters dementia or whatever befalls him after an earlier than hoped for death, an endorsement or disendorsement by that (expletives deleted) fool will count for an awful lot in Republican Primaries.
I totally agree. Trump ran a shadow government in parallel with the Biden Administration, ordering his Republican minions how to vote, thereby making governing impossible for the Democrats.
When an animal is backed into a corner (I'm looking at you, lunatic demagogue in the WH), it shifts into survival mode. Feeling threatened and trapped, it will exhibit intense fear aggression, desperate self-defense and panic actions. Our cornered animal exhibits that kind of behavior every single day and the end doesn't appear to be in sight. We can only hold our collective breath and hope that someone will hide the nuclear football from him because I wouldn't put it past him to sacrifice the entire planet if fed his fragile ego if only for a moment before Armageddon arrived.
The fact that a full 40 percent of Trump supporters can't even bring themselves to condemn the Jesus image just adds to that toxic waste-filled mountain of evidence that proves their cult status. There are things I would disapprove of my own children doing, and they are genuinely wonderful humans who I love more than anyone else in this world. Have some dignity, people. Stop coddling the widdle feelings of the world's most malignant toddler.
I heard the administration is considering military action in Cuba within the next 2 weeks. I wonder if that is to help the GOP in Florida during the midterms.
I suspect many of the polls, which use 'fudge factors' based on past elections, are underestimating the moment. Trump is not like any prior president, not even his first term (except for the insurrection part).
What feels right to me are the polls that show approval for Trump in the low 30% with disapproval in the high 60%. And his approval numbers keep bleeding. Every time Trump pushes another of his followers to look beyond the right wing news bubble, they start seeing a lot of the other stuff they had missed and they are MUCH less likely to go back.
Each of the elections this past year have been 'surprises' which were much stronger than expected. Seems to me the disapprovers are not only more numerous, but also more strongly motivated.
Trump managed to kill various Republican myths, such as the danger of immigrants. The corruption of Democrats (relative to Republicans). Trump's personal innocence. Trump's Christianity. That Republicans are concerned about farmers, small businesses, Working class, Hispanics, Women, Any minority... He seems to be working VERY hard to reduce the number of people willing to follow his lead. Meanwhile the Republicans in congress do not seem to have figured out the game has changed. They probably think they have time after the primaries to pivot, like the good old days. What they are missing is that in the online world, all the old stuff is still there to be seen. They also are missing that in most of the polls, the 'undecided' is vanishingly small, already. THAT is not normal, it means that EVERYBODY is paying attention and is forming their oppinions, especially the negative ones. While they are keeping Trump happy with them for endorsement in the primary, people are noticing Congress Republicans are supporting Trump, even as these same voters are disliking Trump.
It is getting harder for Republicans to sell how evil and terrible Democrats are when Trump is SHOWING them how evil and terrible he is.
This will not end well for Trump, or Republicans, despite their efforts to cheat.
Yes indeed—the Trump administration *is* a host of firsts! Most corrupt. Most perverse. Most perverted. Most delusional. Most unloved. While citizens struggle, Trump (not so) secretly secures billions in personal wealth. O happy day!
Exactly right.
The biggest problem America has with Trump is that he has no clue how to govern. Whom did he pick as staff? Pam Bondi. Kristen Nome. Pete Hegseth. This guy only made it to major, and he’s firing combat-hardened, well-seasoned generals for no reason whatsoever. And he who says he can win wars in three weeks? No sympathy for that devil.
Three more years of this portends the end of the US. The consequences of all of the damage this madman has created up to this point has pushed us to the edge of the cliff. Three more years and it’s game over. This has to end very soon.
It's going to take a monumental effort to rebuild, if it's even possible. I don't think we can.
I’m curious Hannah as to your thoughts on why we can’t rebuild? Explain it in more detail.
As briefly as I can, and not addressing everything:
Our education systems are suffering under this administration.
Our public health is being dismantled.
The Defense Department funding is taking away from the other important functions of the government.
Climate change dollars are being diverted.
The list includes every single thing that government is structured to do for the people.
If you have read P2025, it clearly lays down the framework for dismantling the government. Mr. Vought and Co. are meeting it's goals faster than I imagined.
That's a short answer.
I understand everything you are saying and I’m very aware of Project 2025 but I also am a firm believer that all of that can be reversed.
They are in free fall politically, and when they are gone we will rise to the challenge of rebuilding.
We came back from the Great Depression and we built up our industrial capacity to overcome the Axis powers in WWII. Then we rebuilt the devastation in Europe with the Marshall Plan. Those were much bigger challenges than we will face when MAGA and Trump are gone, which they will be.
Mr. Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are pipsqueaks compared to Hitler and Tojo. Cheer up girl!
You know David, I am cheerful. I don't have your optimism about recovery, and I hope I am wrong. I have been watching the Republicans for 60 years and this has always been the plan. It's just accelerated at an incredible pace. That said, I see what my kids are facing, and in their lifetime I don't think they will recover. Maybe in my grandkids lifetime.
Tom, as always, is spot on.
Time for the 25th! That’s going to be far from a complete fix, but it will be a start. The madman must go….
A 2019 Georgetown University study found that affluent children with low test scores have a 71% chance of being affluent adults at age 25 compared to only a 31% chance for poor children with high test scores.
The rethuglicans are determined to perpetuate this.
This is what drives them.
The task for Democrats is to persuade as many independent voters as possible that while Trump was doing his worst he had unflinching support from elected Republicans. At the right time they can also try to tell them that Trump's grip on the Republican party is likely to extend after he leaves the Oval Office. Unless he mercifully enters dementia or whatever befalls him after an earlier than hoped for death, an endorsement or disendorsement by that (expletives deleted) fool will count for an awful lot in Republican Primaries.
I totally agree. Trump ran a shadow government in parallel with the Biden Administration, ordering his Republican minions how to vote, thereby making governing impossible for the Democrats.
When an animal is backed into a corner (I'm looking at you, lunatic demagogue in the WH), it shifts into survival mode. Feeling threatened and trapped, it will exhibit intense fear aggression, desperate self-defense and panic actions. Our cornered animal exhibits that kind of behavior every single day and the end doesn't appear to be in sight. We can only hold our collective breath and hope that someone will hide the nuclear football from him because I wouldn't put it past him to sacrifice the entire planet if fed his fragile ego if only for a moment before Armageddon arrived.
The fact that a full 40 percent of Trump supporters can't even bring themselves to condemn the Jesus image just adds to that toxic waste-filled mountain of evidence that proves their cult status. There are things I would disapprove of my own children doing, and they are genuinely wonderful humans who I love more than anyone else in this world. Have some dignity, people. Stop coddling the widdle feelings of the world's most malignant toddler.
The American people must drag all Republicans down to Dave Jones Locker.
I heard the administration is considering military action in Cuba within the next 2 weeks. I wonder if that is to help the GOP in Florida during the midterms.
22.5% strongly approve! Seriously?
Let's have ICE deport them to Russia!
I suspect many of the polls, which use 'fudge factors' based on past elections, are underestimating the moment. Trump is not like any prior president, not even his first term (except for the insurrection part).
What feels right to me are the polls that show approval for Trump in the low 30% with disapproval in the high 60%. And his approval numbers keep bleeding. Every time Trump pushes another of his followers to look beyond the right wing news bubble, they start seeing a lot of the other stuff they had missed and they are MUCH less likely to go back.
Each of the elections this past year have been 'surprises' which were much stronger than expected. Seems to me the disapprovers are not only more numerous, but also more strongly motivated.
Trump managed to kill various Republican myths, such as the danger of immigrants. The corruption of Democrats (relative to Republicans). Trump's personal innocence. Trump's Christianity. That Republicans are concerned about farmers, small businesses, Working class, Hispanics, Women, Any minority... He seems to be working VERY hard to reduce the number of people willing to follow his lead. Meanwhile the Republicans in congress do not seem to have figured out the game has changed. They probably think they have time after the primaries to pivot, like the good old days. What they are missing is that in the online world, all the old stuff is still there to be seen. They also are missing that in most of the polls, the 'undecided' is vanishingly small, already. THAT is not normal, it means that EVERYBODY is paying attention and is forming their oppinions, especially the negative ones. While they are keeping Trump happy with them for endorsement in the primary, people are noticing Congress Republicans are supporting Trump, even as these same voters are disliking Trump.
It is getting harder for Republicans to sell how evil and terrible Democrats are when Trump is SHOWING them how evil and terrible he is.
This will not end well for Trump, or Republicans, despite their efforts to cheat.