No Kari, they can't. Congress is the only entity with real power in the government because, theoretically, it speaks for the people, but it is not doing that now. The only thing that will stop this inferno is the November vote, changing Congress' makeup, and impeaching him, impeaching his cabinet, or invoking the 25th amendment, which will be the weakest action, because the VP has to sign off on it, which freaky, weak, hypocritical Vance will not do. We are screwed in so many ways. I am hoping that Ebola reaches the WH, or maybe even this flesheating worm in TX.
Vance is the real ideologue behind the scenes, and as a neofascist, he has the support of both the "Christian" nationalist neofascist Heritage Foundation and the neofascist tech billionaires.
This is no longer a Trump problem. It's a problem with the GOP as a whole.
Freaky, weak (I'd add revolting, infuriating, etc.) Vance *might* do it because that's the only way he'll get to become president. He would demure at first but then agree to invoke the 25th "for the good of the country."
You can be a part of “The US you speak of” but don’t speak for the rest of us! This statement was not well thought out! We The People, 75% of us, have been fighting like hell, so if you feel you need to belittle the efforts of The Majority of The United States People, take it somewhere else!
Too many blowhards that do not research before speaking! You’re wasting our time!
I'm sorry, but when neofascist can be democratically elected, it is a signal that something is wrong on the level of society as a whole.
And one of the things that are wrong is the fact that so many people, including on the left, no longer know how to engage in real, respectful debates.
"Real" debate means: we assume that at any moment, any of our beliefs may turn out to be false. So we refuse to take any disagreement personally.
"Respectful" means: never assume that the other has bad intentions just because he disagrees with you, and never use "ad hominem" arguments (= dismissing a topic/question/criticism/argument referring to who the other is as a person). In other words: stay on topic.
Concretely, this implies that instead of turning my post into something that says something about me (or, for that matter, you), you accept to take the idea itself seriously, even though your first reaction is to disagree, and, if you cannot come up with any reasons why it might be true yourself, you just ask me what research these statements are based on.
Assuming that if someone disagrees with us, the other person must not have done any research (or even worse, must be insulting us), is the kind of intellectual laziness that we see on the left all the time, these days. It's clearly in part the result of "social media" culture, which cultivates our emotional reactivity and reduces our ability to pause and think.
Finally, noticing that there is something wrong with society as a whole isn't the same thing as "belittleing" people. History shows that regularly, entire civilizations move into the wrong direction. We HAVE to have the guts to face this, if we ever want to solve the problem.
There are two different things here: the fact that the US has a democratic Constitution and many democratic institutions (the ones needed to put it into practice), and the degree to which all institutions function properly.
The degree to which democratic institutions function is always fluctuating, in a democracy.
You can absolutely argue that if one major political party constantly lies (the GOP, and at least since Reagan already) and then builds a massive fake news propaganda machine (at least since the beginning of Fox Entertainment, 25 years ago), then the democratic level of society as a whole is going down.
You can definitely also argue that if the legacy media no longer take informing citizens about what matter seriously and instead adopt an absurd and dangerous bothsidesism or reduce political campaigns to horse races, then the fourth branch of government, in a democracy, is terribly failing at doing its job.
For all these reasons, you could argue that the very fact that a neofascist GOP managed to win elections proves that the extent to which the US isn't merely a democracy on paper but also a functioning democracy is no longer the same as 50 years ago. Serious damage has been inflicted, year after year, and deliberately, by the GOP.
However, it would be a huge mistake to buy the GOP claim that the 2024 voting process itself was tampered with. It has been proven that it was not, just as it wasn't in 2020.
Congressman, based on my reread of Bill Shirer’s Rise and Fall, this slush fund looks like he’s using government funds to pay for his Brown Shirts for the next election.
Because this country's highest ideals are opposed to everything Trump is -- ideals such honesty, compassion, working to help others (including sacrificing one's own comfort so that others can live free from fear of bullies), essentially all the true Christian values. He wants to destroy this -- silence all who speak up for those values -- so as to never have to look in that mirror again.
2. The GOP wants to destroy democracy in the US and install neofascism instead. Why?
Since 2008 already, Steve Bannon, the MAGA ideologue who directed Breitbart News and became a key Trump adviser, met with Alexander Dugin, Putin's palace ideologue. Later, many more meetings in Europe with Europe's neofascists followed.
They all agree: world peace will never come from turning every country into a democracy because, these people believe, the "mediocre masses" will always be too ignorant to vote in their own best interests. So a handful of courageous people need to destroy democracy and then divide the world into a few big neofascist empires.
What neofascist learned from the defeat of fascism at the end of WWII is that fascism got one key thing wrong: it imagined that ONE nation had to rule the entire world, and impose ONE type of culture onto everyone.
As Dugin argues, neofascism (he doesn't use that word, but that's what it is) encourages each big fascist empire to create its own nationalism, and to impose ONE religion, namely the most fundamentalist version of the locally dominant religion. That will impose "values" and "discipline" on everyone, and, as Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation wrote in 2024, most people cannot do that on their own, and without it people will always be restless an unhappy. So "the best" (= himself plus the neofascist GOP leadership and tech billionaires) must impose this religion onto everyone.
The dangerous thing about it is that it's a real ideology, not just corruption committed by immoral people such as Trump. Trump will disappear one day, but it will take much more than that to make an entire ideology disappear.
Ugh. Good, informative round up, but ugh. I would love to see a percentage comparison…percent of the Jan 6 rioters who have gone on to commit more crimes vs, percentage of immigrants who have commuted crimes. I’m on a percentage basis, Jan 6 number would be way higher.
Then we're not even taking the fact into account that most immigrants didn't commit any violent crime ever, whereas the insurrectionists committed the worst possible violent crime: trying to kill the VP and Speaker of the House (they did manage to almost kill her husband) and stealing the people's votes.
I am disgusted by the amoebas who opposed the repeal of the slush fund😡 I wish there was a way that the money could come from their pockets and theirs alone😡
Biggest difference between “now” and “then” for the screw worm is that we didn’t have millions of feral pigs and tons of fenced-in exotics throughout the state. The pigs and exotics are human avoiders, cattle weren’t then and aren’t now. Those two will be the superspreader.
Good lord...every. single. day more disturbing news. It never stops. Vote Blue! Boycott anyone and everyone that has anything to do with this administration.
Just another day in the Trump administration. Let's let go of 8,000 civil servants, let's downsize DNI with Bill Pulte "who likes to break things". The Republicans for the most part remain spineless. He and the feckless Republicans are making this country weaker with each passing day especially when it comes to our security. I'm not sure what's going to be left by the time Trump leaves office. The mid-terms can't come soon enough.
Michael - That’s why when I am in a particular mood I call the current republicans in congress the Republican’ts. They can’t do what is necessary for the betterment of our country and can’t find the will to stop T and the illegality of his actions. They can’t pass legislation that will help us and they can’t call themselves fiscal conservatives anymore.
Given Trump's penchant for breaking laws, rules, norms, and the 10 commandments, how is it that he maintains high levels of support from many Christian leaders?
GigiDashes - While true between Christians and Nationalists there sure seems to be a lot of preachers, pastors and fathers who have been involved in trying to get their congregations to accept the horrible things that are currently happening. Not just the ones with mega churches either. At least the Pope sees T for what he is.
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was ... well, both depressing and infuriating. I'm nostalgic for Nixon at this point. Please keep on keeping on, Adam.
When this is finally over, our government will need a full de-Trumpification.
That won't make any difference.
Trump is merely signing executive orders written by the neofascist Heritage Foundation and neofascist tech billionaires.
When will people finally stop being distracted by those neofascists' clown in chief?
It just gets worse, more disgusting, every single day.
Yes, that's how installing a neofascist regime works, as Orban has shown in Hungary. Dismantle all democratic institutions step by step, day by day.
Cassidy has no morals or integrity
I hope you will someday return to public service. We will need your voice when the Trump recovery begins for America in the 3 years.
Can’t someone get his ass Out of Our House? Please!
No Kari, they can't. Congress is the only entity with real power in the government because, theoretically, it speaks for the people, but it is not doing that now. The only thing that will stop this inferno is the November vote, changing Congress' makeup, and impeaching him, impeaching his cabinet, or invoking the 25th amendment, which will be the weakest action, because the VP has to sign off on it, which freaky, weak, hypocritical Vance will not do. We are screwed in so many ways. I am hoping that Ebola reaches the WH, or maybe even this flesheating worm in TX.
Vance is the real ideologue behind the scenes, and as a neofascist, he has the support of both the "Christian" nationalist neofascist Heritage Foundation and the neofascist tech billionaires.
This is no longer a Trump problem. It's a problem with the GOP as a whole.
💯💯💯💯
Freaky, weak (I'd add revolting, infuriating, etc.) Vance *might* do it because that's the only way he'll get to become president. He would demure at first but then agree to invoke the 25th "for the good of the country."
Vance will only do so when the neofascist tech billionaires (with whom he ideologically agrees) order him to do so.
Uh.. "we the people" just gave a neofascist GOP, who explicitly vowed to destroy democracy and install fascism in the US, full control over DC.
Democrats in Congress are fighting back like hell, but ultimately, we refused to give them the power to stop this.
This is on us.
Us alone.
Time to wake up.
I don’t disagree but calm you’re quite intense! And Man oh man you really like to hear yourself talk don’t you?
No need to make this personal. It's more helpful for democracy as a whole if you try to stay on topic.
You can be a part of “The US you speak of” but don’t speak for the rest of us! This statement was not well thought out! We The People, 75% of us, have been fighting like hell, so if you feel you need to belittle the efforts of The Majority of The United States People, take it somewhere else!
Too many blowhards that do not research before speaking! You’re wasting our time!
I'm sorry, but when neofascist can be democratically elected, it is a signal that something is wrong on the level of society as a whole.
And one of the things that are wrong is the fact that so many people, including on the left, no longer know how to engage in real, respectful debates.
"Real" debate means: we assume that at any moment, any of our beliefs may turn out to be false. So we refuse to take any disagreement personally.
"Respectful" means: never assume that the other has bad intentions just because he disagrees with you, and never use "ad hominem" arguments (= dismissing a topic/question/criticism/argument referring to who the other is as a person). In other words: stay on topic.
Concretely, this implies that instead of turning my post into something that says something about me (or, for that matter, you), you accept to take the idea itself seriously, even though your first reaction is to disagree, and, if you cannot come up with any reasons why it might be true yourself, you just ask me what research these statements are based on.
Assuming that if someone disagrees with us, the other person must not have done any research (or even worse, must be insulting us), is the kind of intellectual laziness that we see on the left all the time, these days. It's clearly in part the result of "social media" culture, which cultivates our emotional reactivity and reduces our ability to pause and think.
Finally, noticing that there is something wrong with society as a whole isn't the same thing as "belittleing" people. History shows that regularly, entire civilizations move into the wrong direction. We HAVE to have the guts to face this, if we ever want to solve the problem.
If you believe that he was in fact democratically elected more power to you
There are two different things here: the fact that the US has a democratic Constitution and many democratic institutions (the ones needed to put it into practice), and the degree to which all institutions function properly.
The degree to which democratic institutions function is always fluctuating, in a democracy.
You can absolutely argue that if one major political party constantly lies (the GOP, and at least since Reagan already) and then builds a massive fake news propaganda machine (at least since the beginning of Fox Entertainment, 25 years ago), then the democratic level of society as a whole is going down.
You can definitely also argue that if the legacy media no longer take informing citizens about what matter seriously and instead adopt an absurd and dangerous bothsidesism or reduce political campaigns to horse races, then the fourth branch of government, in a democracy, is terribly failing at doing its job.
For all these reasons, you could argue that the very fact that a neofascist GOP managed to win elections proves that the extent to which the US isn't merely a democracy on paper but also a functioning democracy is no longer the same as 50 years ago. Serious damage has been inflicted, year after year, and deliberately, by the GOP.
However, it would be a huge mistake to buy the GOP claim that the 2024 voting process itself was tampered with. It has been proven that it was not, just as it wasn't in 2020.
Congressman, based on my reread of Bill Shirer’s Rise and Fall, this slush fund looks like he’s using government funds to pay for his Brown Shirts for the next election.
Same conclusion, Same source.
Why is Trump working so hard to destroy our country?
Because he is working for Putain, and that is Putain's goal.
And possibly even Bibi
Because this country's highest ideals are opposed to everything Trump is -- ideals such honesty, compassion, working to help others (including sacrificing one's own comfort so that others can live free from fear of bullies), essentially all the true Christian values. He wants to destroy this -- silence all who speak up for those values -- so as to never have to look in that mirror again.
1. It's not just Trump, it's the entire GOP.
2. The GOP wants to destroy democracy in the US and install neofascism instead. Why?
Since 2008 already, Steve Bannon, the MAGA ideologue who directed Breitbart News and became a key Trump adviser, met with Alexander Dugin, Putin's palace ideologue. Later, many more meetings in Europe with Europe's neofascists followed.
They all agree: world peace will never come from turning every country into a democracy because, these people believe, the "mediocre masses" will always be too ignorant to vote in their own best interests. So a handful of courageous people need to destroy democracy and then divide the world into a few big neofascist empires.
What neofascist learned from the defeat of fascism at the end of WWII is that fascism got one key thing wrong: it imagined that ONE nation had to rule the entire world, and impose ONE type of culture onto everyone.
As Dugin argues, neofascism (he doesn't use that word, but that's what it is) encourages each big fascist empire to create its own nationalism, and to impose ONE religion, namely the most fundamentalist version of the locally dominant religion. That will impose "values" and "discipline" on everyone, and, as Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation wrote in 2024, most people cannot do that on their own, and without it people will always be restless an unhappy. So "the best" (= himself plus the neofascist GOP leadership and tech billionaires) must impose this religion onto everyone.
The dangerous thing about it is that it's a real ideology, not just corruption committed by immoral people such as Trump. Trump will disappear one day, but it will take much more than that to make an entire ideology disappear.
You said a flesh eating parasite was found in Texas. Didn't know he was visiting today.
😂
Good one 👏😂😂
Ugh. Good, informative round up, but ugh. I would love to see a percentage comparison…percent of the Jan 6 rioters who have gone on to commit more crimes vs, percentage of immigrants who have commuted crimes. I’m on a percentage basis, Jan 6 number would be way higher.
GReat idea. Data on this should be available. We'd only need the info for the migrants.
Then we're not even taking the fact into account that most immigrants didn't commit any violent crime ever, whereas the insurrectionists committed the worst possible violent crime: trying to kill the VP and Speaker of the House (they did manage to almost kill her husband) and stealing the people's votes.
I am disgusted by the amoebas who opposed the repeal of the slush fund😡 I wish there was a way that the money could come from their pockets and theirs alone😡
Biggest difference between “now” and “then” for the screw worm is that we didn’t have millions of feral pigs and tons of fenced-in exotics throughout the state. The pigs and exotics are human avoiders, cattle weren’t then and aren’t now. Those two will be the superspreader.
Thanks for this informative comment,
Good lord...every. single. day more disturbing news. It never stops. Vote Blue! Boycott anyone and everyone that has anything to do with this administration.
Is anyone keeping a list of everything that has to be undone when Democrats take the house and the presidency? I've lost track!!!
Just another day in the Trump administration. Let's let go of 8,000 civil servants, let's downsize DNI with Bill Pulte "who likes to break things". The Republicans for the most part remain spineless. He and the feckless Republicans are making this country weaker with each passing day especially when it comes to our security. I'm not sure what's going to be left by the time Trump leaves office. The mid-terms can't come soon enough.
Michael - That’s why when I am in a particular mood I call the current republicans in congress the Republican’ts. They can’t do what is necessary for the betterment of our country and can’t find the will to stop T and the illegality of his actions. They can’t pass legislation that will help us and they can’t call themselves fiscal conservatives anymore.
Given Trump's penchant for breaking laws, rules, norms, and the 10 commandments, how is it that he maintains high levels of support from many Christian leaders?
There is s difference between Christian Nationalists and true Christian leaders. It is the first that support Trump and his cruel immoral behavior
GigiDashes - While true between Christians and Nationalists there sure seems to be a lot of preachers, pastors and fathers who have been involved in trying to get their congregations to accept the horrible things that are currently happening. Not just the ones with mega churches either. At least the Pope sees T for what he is.
Get religion the hell out!!! And start taxing all of it!
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was ... well, both depressing and infuriating. I'm nostalgic for Nixon at this point. Please keep on keeping on, Adam.