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Judy Fjell's avatar

Thank goodness for you, Mary, and all the people who continue to address, report and condemn the fascism of Trump et al. We are living in an American nightmare.

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Carol Pladsen-Bloom's avatar

It's wonderful we've got Mary and it's wonderful she has Marz.

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Bruce Wilder's avatar

Why is there only a handful of Members of the House of Representatives who are doing anything to impeach? How can we get the behavior of this president before the International Criminal Court?

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Katy Bolger's avatar

AAAAaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh. And yet, if I imagine I am reading a novel, it's fucking awesome! Because in the novel the bad guy will get it and the good guy will win. When JD puts his big boy pants on and becomes president, he will be hated way more than even the orange turd. The Magaverse will implode, the old Republican guard will run for the exits, the Democrats will do some soul searching, closet cleaning and pushing and reshuffling. It may be glorious. It may be that Trump has changed things for the better because we have seen how vulnerable our government is. Like Germany after defeat, and Japan after annihilation, our country will have a come to Jesus moment and say: Never again and this time we mean it.

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Mary Jane Huth's avatar

Wow I so Hope you are Right!

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TJ's avatar

Okay came in from a long cold walk outside due to the fact this dimwit Felon decided to post on that Truth Social (which is by far the greatest of oxymorons) this:

“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT

DONALD J. TRUMP”

Are you f’ing kidding me! Is he declaring war on Venezuela via a Truth Social post - warning all to stay away from an impending strike? Honestly WTF is this?!?

So time to get outside and work off the frustration, walk with the dog who loves this 20 degree weather.

Then decided to read a touch of financial news. Totally wrong move.

The U.S. government spent $284.4B more than it collected in October 2025, the first month of its fiscal 2026, exceeding the Bloomberg consensus of $230B, and rising from $257.5B in the same month a year ago, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury on Tuesday.

The Treasury reported $404.4B of receipts and $688.7B of outlays in October. That compared with $326.8B of receipts and $584.2B of outlays a year ago.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-posts-284-billion-october-190438160.html

Good God this isn’t even putting our nation in the poor house - it’s worse than being just flat broke it’s a deep hole the size of an inverted Grand Canyon in the ground no where near even on the surface of Terrafirma to build a house .. This is impossible to get out of…

Then other news along with your writing.

This whole sh*t storm of a family can’t be put on trial enough. No where near enough, it needs to be a global tribunal to sentence and convict them all including this entire regime to some island that has a good dose of leprosy bacteria. A high dose and they can rely on Bobby Jr. to help them all out. They can pack Eric’s vodka, one bottle and fight over it. A few of those ballpoint pens of his that he markets as the “Bullet Pen” so they can stab each other as most obnoxious bully children do that learned their behaviors from their parents. Pete a half bottle of whiskey cause that’s enough for a liar who said he’s not an alcoholic, and they all can wear those ridiculous red baseball hats that have “whatever contemptuous slogan” on them. He knows he’s getting cornered and will try to burn our nation down and even some of these MAGAites are starting to peel off like fleas trying to find another host to latch on.

Thank you for your writing going to go back out and take another walk with the dog, she’ll be happy it’s still cold.

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Robert Scott's avatar

So, I'm in the UK and I read this;

"...a federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting ICE from moving her out of Massachusetts, let alone the country. ICE ignored it."

Can Someone explain why the judge doesn't order the US Marshalls, who I believe they can use, to go to the relevant ICE centre and arrest the ICE officers who ignored a court order? I appreciate it's not quite as simple as that but, if there's no sanction for ignoring a court order then the rule of law has completed evaporated. Maybe it's already evaporated with Pam Bondi as AG.

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Carol Pladsen-Bloom's avatar

Climate Change and not enough water to survive for way too many living things will make some of what Mary describes seem like bumper cars.

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Marick Payton's avatar

Hang in there, Mary. We all depend on you for an entertaining and yet accurate account of the horror show unfolding around us.

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bob stronge's avatar

Mary, Marz knows the score!

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David Nelson's avatar

Surely the logical conclusion will be that SCOTUS has aided and abetted this POTUS crime spree

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Linda Allewalt's avatar

On top of all this.... the holidays are usually a big trigger time for people who are suffering from mental health issues. I don't even know now what to fear the most from Trump.

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Beverley's avatar

This nightmare will soon be over, if the majority of his followers abandon him, how and when

will his crazy regime be over what has to happen next, if everyone agrees that his mental health has slammed his front door and left in a purple rage, what legally has to happen next?

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Samuel Coulbourn's avatar

Mary, after reading this, I wish I could go for a romp here on Front Beach in Rockport, MA. I was wondering what you thought of the discovery of corruption in Zelensky's office: Putin and Trump must be "shocked--shocked".

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Nick Minorsky's avatar

Illegalities and corruption blast out of the White House as if from a water cannon. There is so much malfeasance of every kind, everywhere, all at once. What is one to do - prioritize calamities? Journalists and leaders and anyone else with a mind and heart hunker side by side in triage. We want to act, to help. I pray to God-please join in. The authors huddled in Philadelphia in 1776 and gave us a repair manual to be used in emergencies such as we are in now-but I think it is lost in the glove compartment. Seriously, there are provisions, aka Amendments, to rescue us from our current President. I’m thinking of Impeachment. I’m thinking of the 25th Amendment. What about resuscitation of the three equal branches of our government? Two of the three are as feckless as “Igor” is inside Frankenstein’s laboratory.

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Ken C's avatar
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Trump is politically rabid! Congress is our animal control officer, impeachment is the remedy. How bad does Trump's foaming at the mouth need to get before he is contained?!

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