A mined strait, a gilded capital, a Watergate rewrite, and a war-powers vote treated as scenery. America at 250, and the people who could pull the plug are pretending they can't see the switch.
Just as it was often claimed that the US President was a great deal maker (he wasn't and isn't), it has been (and still is) often claimed that the US Vice President is a highly intelligent man and an intellectual thinker. He isn't. Both, however, have tactical skills at debating, where a win is to have the last word, with tactics of social suppression being very much part of the technique set. Debates exercised on the basis of social power don't result in intelligent policy, however. True to their nature, though, they determine those who win and lose access to unfettered power.
Trumpviscation has been the process of all things touched by Trump turning into shit. His snake oil has passed its expiration date, and the gashes from the reality iceberg of all his failed policies and delusional fantasies is taking on serious water, about to sink his entire presidency.
Trump’s loyal Congressional co-conspirators are reading the tea leaves but continue to believe they have the power to create reality rather than capitulate to it. One’s lived experience cannot be erased or magically replaced. It is the economy, stupid, as well as the mountain of abuses and corruptions that are undeniable.
Accountability is a bitch and will be extracted. Mike Johnson should be quaking in his boots. November 2026 will move us from resistance to transformation.
This is one of your best posts to date. It should be sent to everyone in Congress. They have the power to stop this madness and need to exercise that power. They can vacate the chair and make it happen.
The Republican Party itself is no longer anything but a fully Fascist, Racist Party; it cannot be altered to make it less so; it must be destroyed top to bottom, which should include imprisoning or executing it's higher members - trump, hegs, witless cof, many others - after conviction for Seditious Treason, Murder, and Human Trafficking.
NONE of these people can be 'reasoned' with; we have at least 10,000 Active military members who are now guilty of Murder on the High Seas due to actually following illegal orders - it appears a large percentage of our military are also fascists, racists, and bigots. Just this alone means thousands of trials, with most receiving long prison sentences.
However, I have zero hope that America, the public itself, has the courage (or attention span, or economic freedom) to make ANY of that happen.
We are, IMHO, just inches from either a Civil War (people vs people), a Revolution (people vs Gov't), or an unholy combination of the two, leading to a fracturing of the USA into (guessing here) 4-7 Regional States, each with it's own laws, Rights, and economic system differences.
We are almost there now - a woman driving from Portland to Florida will LOSE, then GAIN, then LOSE again her Human Rights to her own body; many such things are now directly tied to which State one lives in; we might as well make it official and remove the U from the title USA.
And, for me, that is the most likely outcome over the next 10 years, and possibly very much sooner.
I wondered aloud in an earlier comment if trump was sending help to Venezuela. I saw this morning that US Military is there helping. I wish them and everyone else in Venezuela safety and progress.
I heard on the news yesterday about Bolton's plea agreement guaranteeing he won't get more than 60 months. Plus fine of $2.25 million. Plus forfeiting his pension. Plus 100 hrs community service. Sentencing is in October. Hope the current administration is noting this and wondering what their own futures are. They are definitely out on limb ... a very slim limb!! Jamie Raskin is ready for that limb to break (Jamie Raskin was awesome on the Jan 6 committee).
Vance has such a smarmy smile. No wonder they've all turned on him.
Not only is Congress not seeing how Trump is unraveling in public, they are blind to the fact that the good people of this country are unraveling because of Trump and his administration. Congress and/or the Judges need to step up and help us.
Just as it was often claimed that the US President was a great deal maker (he wasn't and isn't), it has been (and still is) often claimed that the US Vice President is a highly intelligent man and an intellectual thinker. He isn't. Both, however, have tactical skills at debating, where a win is to have the last word, with tactics of social suppression being very much part of the technique set. Debates exercised on the basis of social power don't result in intelligent policy, however. True to their nature, though, they determine those who win and lose access to unfettered power.
Thank you Mary! Once again, you have wrapped up all the nasty fragments of our insane government into a ball of insightful and ingenious writing!
Trumpviscation has been the process of all things touched by Trump turning into shit. His snake oil has passed its expiration date, and the gashes from the reality iceberg of all his failed policies and delusional fantasies is taking on serious water, about to sink his entire presidency.
Trump’s loyal Congressional co-conspirators are reading the tea leaves but continue to believe they have the power to create reality rather than capitulate to it. One’s lived experience cannot be erased or magically replaced. It is the economy, stupid, as well as the mountain of abuses and corruptions that are undeniable.
Accountability is a bitch and will be extracted. Mike Johnson should be quaking in his boots. November 2026 will move us from resistance to transformation.
This is one of your best posts to date. It should be sent to everyone in Congress. They have the power to stop this madness and need to exercise that power. They can vacate the chair and make it happen.
The Republican Party itself is no longer anything but a fully Fascist, Racist Party; it cannot be altered to make it less so; it must be destroyed top to bottom, which should include imprisoning or executing it's higher members - trump, hegs, witless cof, many others - after conviction for Seditious Treason, Murder, and Human Trafficking.
NONE of these people can be 'reasoned' with; we have at least 10,000 Active military members who are now guilty of Murder on the High Seas due to actually following illegal orders - it appears a large percentage of our military are also fascists, racists, and bigots. Just this alone means thousands of trials, with most receiving long prison sentences.
However, I have zero hope that America, the public itself, has the courage (or attention span, or economic freedom) to make ANY of that happen.
We are, IMHO, just inches from either a Civil War (people vs people), a Revolution (people vs Gov't), or an unholy combination of the two, leading to a fracturing of the USA into (guessing here) 4-7 Regional States, each with it's own laws, Rights, and economic system differences.
We are almost there now - a woman driving from Portland to Florida will LOSE, then GAIN, then LOSE again her Human Rights to her own body; many such things are now directly tied to which State one lives in; we might as well make it official and remove the U from the title USA.
And, for me, that is the most likely outcome over the next 10 years, and possibly very much sooner.
PS: I am not an Optimist.
I wondered aloud in an earlier comment if trump was sending help to Venezuela. I saw this morning that US Military is there helping. I wish them and everyone else in Venezuela safety and progress.
I heard on the news yesterday about Bolton's plea agreement guaranteeing he won't get more than 60 months. Plus fine of $2.25 million. Plus forfeiting his pension. Plus 100 hrs community service. Sentencing is in October. Hope the current administration is noting this and wondering what their own futures are. They are definitely out on limb ... a very slim limb!! Jamie Raskin is ready for that limb to break (Jamie Raskin was awesome on the Jan 6 committee).
Vance has such a smarmy smile. No wonder they've all turned on him.
Laurie, his smarmy smirk and whiny voice makes my skin crawl. The way he patted his wife's knee at the reading event was so cringey.
Keep the heat on and we'll try to do the same!
Not only is Congress not seeing how Trump is unraveling in public, they are blind to the fact that the good people of this country are unraveling because of Trump and his administration. Congress and/or the Judges need to step up and help us.