This is an administration of organized crime mobsters, and so far they've been getting away with that. It HAS TO STOP! Just for a start...Noem, Bondi, and Hegpeth need to be impeached! Actually...we should start with the mob boss, Trump! Then, we have RFK, who is endangering lives. EVERYONE in Congress AND the Supreme Court took an oath to this country, our Constitution, and to the people,, and that oath needs to be upheld, or out you go! Many of them are outright breaking the law, and they need to be in prison! We are living the novel, 1984. Anyone who hasn't read it SHOULD!
When we read Orwell’s prescient novel 1984 in high school or college, until the very end we hoped for a happy ending. Winston and Julia would find The Brotherhood, overthrow the tyranny of Big Brother and The Party, and live happily ever after in their newly liberated homeland.
But there is no such happy ending. Winston is betrayed by O’Brien, in whom he had placed his trust and hope. He and Julia are apprehended by the Thought Police and taken to the deceptively named Ministry of Truth where in Room 101 they are each confronted by their worst fears.
They betray each other, submit to The Party, and learn to love Big Brother.
It is tempting, as we witness the Trumpian assault on science, education, healthcare, the environment, the free press, our democracy, and the very idea of what it means to be an American, to engage in the sort of magical thinking that doomed Winston and Julia. It is tempting to imagine that after the next election, after Trump finally goes away, we will return to being a society that honors truth, tolerance, diversity, and basic human decency.
It is tempting to wait for someone to save us from Trumpian dystopia the way The Hammer Thrower in the famous Apple ad promising that “1984 won’t be like 1984” shattered the screen and broke the spell of Big Brother.
That ain't gonna happen. Like members of The Party in Orwell’s 1984, the (lower case gop) gutless obsequious puppets of Donald Trump’s new Republican Party will never stand up to Trump and whatever creature replaces him. We must pick up the hammer and throw it ourselves.
The more damage they do, the more difficult it will be to find our way back, obviously. Something has to give, but the more I see of their corruption the more frightened I become. There is no accountability anywhere in this whole administration. They just lie their way through each nightmare and it goes away when we're dealt the next nightmare. To anyone who is not frightened, how are you managing that? Two civilians killed on the street by military police for protesting in America??? WTF ...
I remember. Our protagonist loves Big Brother as they put a bullet in his head...I think that's how they killed him. I'm old and read it almost sixty years ago. I also read Brave New World and Animal Farm around then, too. I need to reread all three. I do have a copy of Fahrenheit 451, so I guess I still have at least one book that warns us about dystopian futures!
What is next??? Still can't accept the fact he lost the 2020 election after all these years!!! The FBI is still wasting time and money working in Georgia? That, to me, tells us everything we need to know about this spoiled brat, narcissistic, bully of a child. If we were 'bad losers' growing up and didn't accept defeat with grace, we would have been punished! Odd how when trump loses an election there's fraud, the election has been stolen. But when he wins, the election is legitimate and all the fraud suits he initiated go away! Really, how convenient.
Susan: It's their rallying battle cry, like "Remember the Maine". Everything hinges on keeping the magats enraged, the true battle lines blurred, sides and enemies defined. Classic playbook for fascist rule, where truth doesn't exist🍊👿💀
Give me your lunch money; do my homework; give me your new shoes; give me $50 every week;...& I won't beat you up...those school bullies just grow up to be magats, iceholes and fascists🍊👿💀
Pam Bondo needs to be impeached! How can blatant blackmail go unaddressed? Investigate and expose all of these people who are so cavalier about taking our rights away from us everyday. Her hands are bloody and she stinks of corruption.
This chip on her shoulder witch should be disbarred as soon as possible. Spot on David, as always. Call her what she is, a bought and paid for goon who learned her extortion chops as a lobbyist.
David Shuster wonders "[i]f the Trump administration actually believes in democracy . . . ." Clearly Trump and his administration have NO concern with democracy, Trump cares ONLY about himself, and his administration cares ONLY about keeping him happy. Like others have said, "organized crime mobsters."
Yes, the stench of these rotting, crooked beings conniving and threatening their way to complete control does keep worsening. Bullies to the core. Honestly, did you ever think you would see the United States Attorney General holding Americans constitutional rights as leverage??? She is the furthest thing from what that position requires - she feels no responsibility to the Constitution or to uphold the laws it protects. If their goal was to build a regime of corrupt, inept, cruel, ignorant bigots, they surely succeeded!
These criminals are busy creating one crime/crisis after another because they want to distract us from the previous one(s). We MUST remember EVERY ONE and force them to be accountable for their actions and cruelties.
Let's call her a viper, also poisonous...a bitch is a female dog. I've had three and they are very lovable and loyal. One is with me now, and never leaves my side!
I was actually cleaning it up a bit, but I see your point. My last dog I had literally from his first breath to his last, and he never left my side either. I haven’t been able to get another since. But I have a female orange cat, which is pretty special.
I know you mean no insult to our beloved dog friends, and you are right. But I use the word witch - brings to mind an ugly, wicked creature that everyone hates!
Back when the GOP really was the grand old party, Barry Goldwater spoke for congressional Republicans in telling Nixon that he had to resign after Watergate blew up. In today's (lower case gop) gutless obsequious puppets party of Donald Trump party leaders are so emasculated they can't even stand up for principles that once guided their party. Having swallowed the Big Lie that the J6 assault on our democracy was actually a day of peace and patriotism, they are now laying the groundwork for undermining 2026 elections with another Big Lie - that the 2020 election was rigged. Goldwater is rolling over in his grave.
There have been too many sequels to this play already. Orange Julius is still replaying the tune from 2020 in Georgia, confiscating the voting machines there and I imagine the claim will be that they were rigged which precipitated his loss. Don’t believe for a second that this episode isn’t designed to magically produce his imaginary outcome. Leadership in Georgia verified that the machines and the count was correct but somehow the spin on this will be an effort of extortion to lay before that state legislature. Hopefully those that are wise enough and not afraid to speak up will see through the lies and BS and call it what it is.
TO HAVE OUR COUNTRY/DEMOCRACY NOW HANGING BY A THREAD WHY - REPUBLICAN MOTTO- MONEY / POWER & GREED tRUMP IS & HAS NEVER BEEN QUALIFIED TO BE OUR PRESIDENT THIS PUTIN PUPPET GIVEN BY THIS UNQUALIFED SUPREME COURT TO BE NOT GUILTY AND COULD RUN FOR THIS HIGHEST OFFICE IMPEACH HIM & ALL THESE REPUBLICAN CRONIES NOW
Here's another thought...and I don't want to be paranoid, but I do feel very skeptical about the sudden appearance of a video of Alex Pretti fighting with ICE thugs. We are now in the days of AI, so I would like to know the source of that video. I want it to be authenticated. I would not put it past this criminal administration to concoct such a video as yet another smear against Alex Pretti, and to stop criticism of ICE.
Clearly the DHS is running a "protection racket". We can expect no less from an administration with a mob boss as its leader.
Extortion seems more like it.
This is an administration of organized crime mobsters, and so far they've been getting away with that. It HAS TO STOP! Just for a start...Noem, Bondi, and Hegpeth need to be impeached! Actually...we should start with the mob boss, Trump! Then, we have RFK, who is endangering lives. EVERYONE in Congress AND the Supreme Court took an oath to this country, our Constitution, and to the people,, and that oath needs to be upheld, or out you go! Many of them are outright breaking the law, and they need to be in prison! We are living the novel, 1984. Anyone who hasn't read it SHOULD!
1984 Did Not End Well!
When we read Orwell’s prescient novel 1984 in high school or college, until the very end we hoped for a happy ending. Winston and Julia would find The Brotherhood, overthrow the tyranny of Big Brother and The Party, and live happily ever after in their newly liberated homeland.
But there is no such happy ending. Winston is betrayed by O’Brien, in whom he had placed his trust and hope. He and Julia are apprehended by the Thought Police and taken to the deceptively named Ministry of Truth where in Room 101 they are each confronted by their worst fears.
They betray each other, submit to The Party, and learn to love Big Brother.
It is tempting, as we witness the Trumpian assault on science, education, healthcare, the environment, the free press, our democracy, and the very idea of what it means to be an American, to engage in the sort of magical thinking that doomed Winston and Julia. It is tempting to imagine that after the next election, after Trump finally goes away, we will return to being a society that honors truth, tolerance, diversity, and basic human decency.
It is tempting to wait for someone to save us from Trumpian dystopia the way The Hammer Thrower in the famous Apple ad promising that “1984 won’t be like 1984” shattered the screen and broke the spell of Big Brother.
That ain't gonna happen. Like members of The Party in Orwell’s 1984, the (lower case gop) gutless obsequious puppets of Donald Trump’s new Republican Party will never stand up to Trump and whatever creature replaces him. We must pick up the hammer and throw it ourselves.
The more damage they do, the more difficult it will be to find our way back, obviously. Something has to give, but the more I see of their corruption the more frightened I become. There is no accountability anywhere in this whole administration. They just lie their way through each nightmare and it goes away when we're dealt the next nightmare. To anyone who is not frightened, how are you managing that? Two civilians killed on the street by military police for protesting in America??? WTF ...
the lower case gop - gutless obsequious puppets of Trump's magapublican party will live in infamy.
The thought police on steroids
And with secret police tools that would have been sci fi not that long ago.
Throw it we will Joe.
I remember. Our protagonist loves Big Brother as they put a bullet in his head...I think that's how they killed him. I'm old and read it almost sixty years ago. I also read Brave New World and Animal Farm around then, too. I need to reread all three. I do have a copy of Fahrenheit 451, so I guess I still have at least one book that warns us about dystopian futures!
If five years ago someone would have written a novel based on what we are seeing today, it would have been call dystopian.
Which is why it’s so important to get out the vote, since democrats do not have the votes to impeach right now.
I agree! That being said, the mobsters are working on rigging the upcoming elections. They have sent in the FBI to takes the votes from 2020.
What is next??? Still can't accept the fact he lost the 2020 election after all these years!!! The FBI is still wasting time and money working in Georgia? That, to me, tells us everything we need to know about this spoiled brat, narcissistic, bully of a child. If we were 'bad losers' growing up and didn't accept defeat with grace, we would have been punished! Odd how when trump loses an election there's fraud, the election has been stolen. But when he wins, the election is legitimate and all the fraud suits he initiated go away! Really, how convenient.
Susan: It's their rallying battle cry, like "Remember the Maine". Everything hinges on keeping the magats enraged, the true battle lines blurred, sides and enemies defined. Classic playbook for fascist rule, where truth doesn't exist🍊👿💀
a better metaphor wouldbe Hitler's Big Lie of the stab in the back
Give me your lunch money; do my homework; give me your new shoes; give me $50 every week;...& I won't beat you up...those school bullies just grow up to be magats, iceholes and fascists🍊👿💀
Pam Bondo needs to be impeached! How can blatant blackmail go unaddressed? Investigate and expose all of these people who are so cavalier about taking our rights away from us everyday. Her hands are bloody and she stinks of corruption.
This is why we have a Second Amendment.
They regime only wants voter rolls so they can identify, target and purge democrats.
The republi-Nazi's learned that when more people vote they lose.
This chip on her shoulder witch should be disbarred as soon as possible. Spot on David, as always. Call her what she is, a bought and paid for goon who learned her extortion chops as a lobbyist.
David Shuster wonders "[i]f the Trump administration actually believes in democracy . . . ." Clearly Trump and his administration have NO concern with democracy, Trump cares ONLY about himself, and his administration cares ONLY about keeping him happy. Like others have said, "organized crime mobsters."
Yes, the stench of these rotting, crooked beings conniving and threatening their way to complete control does keep worsening. Bullies to the core. Honestly, did you ever think you would see the United States Attorney General holding Americans constitutional rights as leverage??? She is the furthest thing from what that position requires - she feels no responsibility to the Constitution or to uphold the laws it protects. If their goal was to build a regime of corrupt, inept, cruel, ignorant bigots, they surely succeeded!
These criminals are busy creating one crime/crisis after another because they want to distract us from the previous one(s). We MUST remember EVERY ONE and force them to be accountable for their actions and cruelties.
There is no negotiation with these implacable monsters who will not make any concessions whatsoever.
And voting is too precious to be deployed as a bargaining chip.
This is no time to capitulate!
Poisonous bitch.
Let's call her a viper, also poisonous...a bitch is a female dog. I've had three and they are very lovable and loyal. One is with me now, and never leaves my side!
I was actually cleaning it up a bit, but I see your point. My last dog I had literally from his first breath to his last, and he never left my side either. I haven’t been able to get another since. But I have a female orange cat, which is pretty special.
We love our dear animal family members, don't we? Always there for us, always!
I know you mean no insult to our beloved dog friends, and you are right. But I use the word witch - brings to mind an ugly, wicked creature that everyone hates!
Ah...you've forgotten Samantha Stevens, and Glinda.
Back when the GOP really was the grand old party, Barry Goldwater spoke for congressional Republicans in telling Nixon that he had to resign after Watergate blew up. In today's (lower case gop) gutless obsequious puppets party of Donald Trump party leaders are so emasculated they can't even stand up for principles that once guided their party. Having swallowed the Big Lie that the J6 assault on our democracy was actually a day of peace and patriotism, they are now laying the groundwork for undermining 2026 elections with another Big Lie - that the 2020 election was rigged. Goldwater is rolling over in his grave.
You are absolutely correct! This is Lincoln's party! Can you imagine what he would think of this behavior?
There have been too many sequels to this play already. Orange Julius is still replaying the tune from 2020 in Georgia, confiscating the voting machines there and I imagine the claim will be that they were rigged which precipitated his loss. Don’t believe for a second that this episode isn’t designed to magically produce his imaginary outcome. Leadership in Georgia verified that the machines and the count was correct but somehow the spin on this will be an effort of extortion to lay before that state legislature. Hopefully those that are wise enough and not afraid to speak up will see through the lies and BS and call it what it is.
TO HAVE OUR COUNTRY/DEMOCRACY NOW HANGING BY A THREAD WHY - REPUBLICAN MOTTO- MONEY / POWER & GREED tRUMP IS & HAS NEVER BEEN QUALIFIED TO BE OUR PRESIDENT THIS PUTIN PUPPET GIVEN BY THIS UNQUALIFED SUPREME COURT TO BE NOT GUILTY AND COULD RUN FOR THIS HIGHEST OFFICE IMPEACH HIM & ALL THESE REPUBLICAN CRONIES NOW
Here's another thought...and I don't want to be paranoid, but I do feel very skeptical about the sudden appearance of a video of Alex Pretti fighting with ICE thugs. We are now in the days of AI, so I would like to know the source of that video. I want it to be authenticated. I would not put it past this criminal administration to concoct such a video as yet another smear against Alex Pretti, and to stop criticism of ICE.