Wealthy, connected conservatives knowingly supported Trump despite recognizing the dangers he posed, prioritizing their own interests and enabling political chaos and economic harm.
One can only hope that the "normies" wake up and get a spine but what price might they pay for doing so is a wonder? It won't be the ones in Congress because they want to keep their jobs, so who will it be? I agree with Barbara they DO need to take a lot of the blame for the crap that is happening now.
Rick, you're always right on point. I'm increasingly more worried about the escalating kidnapping of people off the streets. Warrantless abductions by masked goons under the cover of "government" law enforcement . The media is not reporting the significance of any of the criminality taking place.... they're minimizing it all. They're cowards, all of them. I see many trying to tell people what to think, instead of reporting the news that MAKES them think ! It's complicity in the further dumbing down of America.
"Trump’s base waved flags and spread conspiracies, the Normies offered respectability to a movement they knew was dangerous. Now, with recession looming, civil norms unraveling, and the moral cost mounting, the truth is unavoidable:" Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
I don't get the whole far right entitlement and resentment thing. I grew up slightly better than dirt poor in the '60s. My father was unemployed 3 months of the year when construction stopped due to winter weather. He served in the Pacific in WWII, enlisted at 34 as a SeaBee, and died at 61 in a Veteran's hospital after a hard life. But I never saw him resentful of anyone. He had his personal failings, but he judged folk on their character and work ethos.
But the right, they hate hard workers who don't look and talk and think like they do. Success to them is only success if you're their kind of people, else they believe you cheated the system (like they often did and do).
Yes, the 'normies' bear the greatest amount of the blame. From John Boehner taking in the anarchists (Tea Party) as 'vital new blood'; to Mitch McConnell and his ilk turning a blind eye to Trump's acts and acquitting him twice; to John Roberts championing the elimination of fairness in elections and declaring that money was free speech; and especially to all those who have more money and assets than anyone could spend in a lifetime, but want more. It's not as if they are really job creators, for far too many of them are guilty of the exportation of jobs in order to increase profits instead of strengthening the overall economy. They want to see the protections of healthcare and EPA regulations gone because it increases their wealth, and totally disregard and don't care that the workforce is non productive if they're not healthy.
As for the 'communist revolution' here in America, it didn't happen in the '20s and '30s, when Americans were naive about its nature, and it would never happen now, no matter how much the right keeps crowing about it. Bernie Sanders and AOC, as left in American politics as you can get, are not communists nor bent on establishing a proletariat of the people. I'm 70+ years old, and I have met PERHAPS one (1) communist in my lifetime, and that was 50 years ago. But the right regards what Jesus taught as communism, but they won't admit that. Just the implementation is spelled out.
The day Trump asks us to do better, to do it for the country, and our own souls, without there being some massive side benefit for himself, that day will never come.
My dad, (17 lied about his age), his brother (20), served in the Pacific Theatre, my grandfather (45, Baker), great uncle, and at least a couple of other uncles served in WWII. I feel every member of Congress that votes for a MAGA nominee or MAGA/GOP bill BETRAY my family and all others that served in WWII for our freedom, free from authoritarian rule. It is sickening to see what Republicans and Americans that have accepted Trumpism are doing to our country.
Good grief? Between the "plane" (now that I've seen the outside, no wonder t. is excited...the hell with the hungry children in war torn countries for instance) and importation of Musk's relatives
Did they ever believe in anything other than white nationalism or the philosophy of a flock of seagulls? (Not the group, the actual birds screeching, “Mine! Mine!! Mine!!!”.) My cousin, Mathy Kathy, recently told me about our evangelical MAGA uncle. It turns out he was always a racist POS. He would try to wash the brown off his stepson, whose mom was of indigenous ancestry. Larry went on to die at age 52 after a life of drug and alcohol abuse. He accomplished one amazing thing. He was severely injured when his vehicle crashed during a police chase. It resulted in a settlement for Larry and the road getting leveled out ever so slightly to make it safer. Ironically, this is the spot is where the 1848 Battle of the Abiqua occurred. You can’t make this shit up, at least I can’t. My imagination isn’t that good.
dumpty supporters have no honor and are responsible for the deaths of over 1 million people and counting. They deserve no forgiveness or warm hugs. They deserve to hang their heads in shame.
One can only hope that the "normies" wake up and get a spine but what price might they pay for doing so is a wonder? It won't be the ones in Congress because they want to keep their jobs, so who will it be? I agree with Barbara they DO need to take a lot of the blame for the crap that is happening now.
Brilliantly put, as always. They need their noses rubbed in this fetid mess.
Let him have it, they justified this mess in their minds to the detriment of our country. Assholes all.
Rick, you're always right on point. I'm increasingly more worried about the escalating kidnapping of people off the streets. Warrantless abductions by masked goons under the cover of "government" law enforcement . The media is not reporting the significance of any of the criminality taking place.... they're minimizing it all. They're cowards, all of them. I see many trying to tell people what to think, instead of reporting the news that MAKES them think ! It's complicity in the further dumbing down of America.
Thank you Rick 🙏💙
Thank you!
"Trump’s base waved flags and spread conspiracies, the Normies offered respectability to a movement they knew was dangerous. Now, with recession looming, civil norms unraveling, and the moral cost mounting, the truth is unavoidable:" Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Isn’t it about time some jackass MAGA moron comes out with an AI depiction of Trump storming Normandy?
I don't get the whole far right entitlement and resentment thing. I grew up slightly better than dirt poor in the '60s. My father was unemployed 3 months of the year when construction stopped due to winter weather. He served in the Pacific in WWII, enlisted at 34 as a SeaBee, and died at 61 in a Veteran's hospital after a hard life. But I never saw him resentful of anyone. He had his personal failings, but he judged folk on their character and work ethos.
But the right, they hate hard workers who don't look and talk and think like they do. Success to them is only success if you're their kind of people, else they believe you cheated the system (like they often did and do).
Yes, the 'normies' bear the greatest amount of the blame. From John Boehner taking in the anarchists (Tea Party) as 'vital new blood'; to Mitch McConnell and his ilk turning a blind eye to Trump's acts and acquitting him twice; to John Roberts championing the elimination of fairness in elections and declaring that money was free speech; and especially to all those who have more money and assets than anyone could spend in a lifetime, but want more. It's not as if they are really job creators, for far too many of them are guilty of the exportation of jobs in order to increase profits instead of strengthening the overall economy. They want to see the protections of healthcare and EPA regulations gone because it increases their wealth, and totally disregard and don't care that the workforce is non productive if they're not healthy.
As for the 'communist revolution' here in America, it didn't happen in the '20s and '30s, when Americans were naive about its nature, and it would never happen now, no matter how much the right keeps crowing about it. Bernie Sanders and AOC, as left in American politics as you can get, are not communists nor bent on establishing a proletariat of the people. I'm 70+ years old, and I have met PERHAPS one (1) communist in my lifetime, and that was 50 years ago. But the right regards what Jesus taught as communism, but they won't admit that. Just the implementation is spelled out.
The day Trump asks us to do better, to do it for the country, and our own souls, without there being some massive side benefit for himself, that day will never come.
Perfectly said, thank you 🙏💕
My dad, (17 lied about his age), his brother (20), served in the Pacific Theatre, my grandfather (45, Baker), great uncle, and at least a couple of other uncles served in WWII. I feel every member of Congress that votes for a MAGA nominee or MAGA/GOP bill BETRAY my family and all others that served in WWII for our freedom, free from authoritarian rule. It is sickening to see what Republicans and Americans that have accepted Trumpism are doing to our country.
Good grief? Between the "plane" (now that I've seen the outside, no wonder t. is excited...the hell with the hungry children in war torn countries for instance) and importation of Musk's relatives
what can go wrong??? Possibly everything!!!!
Did they ever believe in anything other than white nationalism or the philosophy of a flock of seagulls? (Not the group, the actual birds screeching, “Mine! Mine!! Mine!!!”.) My cousin, Mathy Kathy, recently told me about our evangelical MAGA uncle. It turns out he was always a racist POS. He would try to wash the brown off his stepson, whose mom was of indigenous ancestry. Larry went on to die at age 52 after a life of drug and alcohol abuse. He accomplished one amazing thing. He was severely injured when his vehicle crashed during a police chase. It resulted in a settlement for Larry and the road getting leveled out ever so slightly to make it safer. Ironically, this is the spot is where the 1848 Battle of the Abiqua occurred. You can’t make this shit up, at least I can’t. My imagination isn’t that good.
“The sugar high of hate” apt description of our downfall.
Always to the point, Rick. Thank, you.
IMO this also applies to those who didn't vote because Kamala wasn't perfect.
Exactly 💯🎯
Yes
dumpty supporters have no honor and are responsible for the deaths of over 1 million people and counting. They deserve no forgiveness or warm hugs. They deserve to hang their heads in shame.
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