Four years ago today. Never forget. Trump and the Republicans will try to gaslight you about what happened. I know it is terrifying that he’s been re-elected, but the least we can do is hold onto the truth. This was an attempted coup, an insurrection, and all their lies can’t change that. The incoming administration is going to be one of the most corrupt in history. Pay attention!
Continue reading →As I pointed out in the previous post, Trump never liked NATO and didn’t want to be tied down by those strategic alliances. This article from Politico shows it clearly, reporting on a time Trump said exactly that to world leaders while he was President. Trump vowed he’d ‘never’ help Europe if it’s attacked, top EU official says ‘By the way NATO is dead,’ the former (and potential future) US president added in private meeting. BRUSSELS — One of Europe’s most senior politicians recounted how former U.S. President Donald Trump privately warned that America would not come to the EU’s … Continue reading →
If you’re not familiar with Pod Save the World from Crooked Media, it is where Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, both of whom worked in the Obama administration, discuss world politics and all sorts of other affairs. It’s consistently interesting and informative, one of my favorite podcasts and I recommend it to you without reservation. Embedded below is the episode from January 10, 2024. If I’ve done this right it’s cued up to 51:35, towards the end of a discussion of Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the fact that North Korea is currently supplying Russia with a lot of heavy … Continue reading →
Be careful out there. The threat of violence continues to escalate, as we always feared it would. And Trump’s indictment (gift link) is going to ramp up their fear and anger to a ever-more-fevered pitch. ‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War Within minutes of Trump’s indictment, supporters lit up social media platforms with violent threats and calls for civil war. In what is becoming a now all-too-familiar trend, former President Donald Trump’s far-right supporters have threatened civil war after news broke Thursday that the former president was indicted for allegedly taking classified documents from … Continue reading →
And it is fully on Trump and the Republican Party who treat ordinary citizens this way, people who are working to make our elections happen, and who have done absolutely nothing to bring this on themselves. "There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the US target you? … He targeted me, Lady Ruby, a small business owner, a mother, a proud American citizen, who stood up to help Fulton County run an election in the middle of a pandemic" pic.twitter.com/PeJcdw3J59 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2022
Continue reading →The video they showed of the insurrection was brutal. I’m not going to embed it here, but if you didn’t see it, you should. It’s covered by a content warning, just so you know. In my current kind of despairing state, I don’t really believe it will matter. But I’m very glad they are doing this important work in such an excellent way.
Continue reading →His only concern is for himself. "Donald Trump is mentally unwell in a way that makes him interested exclusively in what benefits him." CNN White House correspondent @JohnJHarwood reacts to a new interview where Donald Trump asks Putin for intel on the Bidens. Watch the moment here: https://t.co/GjUYRKXFob pic.twitter.com/k67KbDnbzG — CNN (@CNN) March 30, 2022
Continue reading →The patience and empathy of healthcare workers, as expressed in the post just below, is one response to the idiots who remain unvaccinated and who will therefore, with great certainty, end up with COVID and likely become quite ill. But my own feelings are much closer to those expressed in this blog post by The Rude Pundit. Why We’re So Fucking Angry at the Unvaccinated …We’re furious. We’re furious at adults who made adult decisions that fucked it all up. We’re furious that, after all the shit they’ve done to fuck up this country by voting for Trump, they won’t … Continue reading →
Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients …“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.” …“[The families] cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain … Continue reading →
Thanks to the Mehdi Hasan Show for the footage, and Crooks and Liars for the embed.
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