Donald Trump and the entire Republican ecosystem have normalized and celebrated hate, fear, and violence against the majority that is rising to confront their reign of terror.
You could hear in Walz's voice he knew the victims were targeted bc they are in his State. He felt terrible bc he's a kind, decent human being. Can't decency be the lowest bar ? Why does the bar have to be bellow Satan's ballZ?
This weekend was tough. It's been a long time since I was really concerned about a nuclear war, but here we are. The juxtaposition of Trump's "Dear Leader" Birthday flop with missiles flying between Israel and Iran was like something out of a Adam McKay film. Preposterous and deeply frightening.
Saturday morning I woke up early to walk my pup before heading to a protest, and the first thing I saw was the news in Minnesota. It made me sick and worried about every single sane elected official at every level in this country. Republican or Democrat, if you speak the truth, you have a target on your back, pure and simple. This new era of cruelty and MAGA mob insanity reminds me of any number of dystopian fictions, pick almost any one and it's a snapshot of now.
Sen. Mike Lee and that giant POS Alec Lace are mocking the deaths of Melissa Hortman, her husband, and her sweet dog Because that kind of sadistic merriment is shared and celebrated by so many of Trump's base. I know it's not half of the country, but it's 77 million too many people.
All these things are indicative of a real profound epidemic of ethical and moral decay. I say ethical, because I do not believe one needs to believe in a higher power to do what's right. And there is an objective right, and a definite wrong. It makes sense to be a community and support one another, to help those less fortunate and to strive toward equality and inclusiveness. It's just right.
We need a seismic sea change in this country (if not the world) that celebrates justice and equality and condemns cruelty and xenophobia. I fear that even if by some miracle we got rid of Trump tomorrow, the many-headed hydra of hatred would regenerate another monstrous head.
With the ineffectual democrats stumbling into one another without direction or purpose, I fear a Trump power vacuum would be replaced by more of the same.
The Democratic Party bashing has gotten old. There are strong Democratic Party governors who are doing stand up work notwithstanding the feckless GOP enablers who know better but have no guts. Time to stop ripping ourselves apart when there is a very real threat to the rule of law that won’t be effectively addressed in the US House at least until January 2027.
Not all Dems are feckless and I should've clarified that. It was a generalization based on the current leadership, and they most certainly have enabled the GOP.
We cannot wait for 2026 or 2027. It's been five months and look where we are! If that POS Mitch McConnell were in Chuck Schumer's position you know the GOP would be tripping up the Dems like a room full of banana peels. I'm sorry but all I see (from leadership) is shoulder shrugging and half-baked comments about "meeting the moment."
We do need unity: Dems, Independents, Republicans, ex-MAGA - I honestly do not care. So long as we build a cohesive resistance that stops the gleeful destruction of democracy we're seeing everyday.
I didn't see any Democratic Party bashing in Leah Anderson's post but now that you brought it up the Democratic Party has shown us for way too long that most of them are just spinless twits, not all but definitely a good percentage of them. It makes the Democratic party seem paralyzed to get us out of this authoritarian mess. What we need is for the Democrats to throw away that old play book because it DOESN'T work anymore, seriously!~ New tactics are in order to get the 77 million that didn't vote in this last election to get out and vote in 2026. We can only hope.
…ineffectual democrats stumbling into one another without direction or purpose - Characterize that however you choose.
I concur with Anderson that we need unity and a cohesive resistance, which means rejecting purity tests and finding common ground to overcome the imbalance on the SCOTUS and the loss of both chambers in the US Congress and in too many State Houses as well as in state courts.
Americans are still sleepwalking, including many, if not most of our elected officials from all political parties. If they're not sleepwalking, they're criminally complicit in this global plan of the elite to re-order society. ... I've been warning about this since tRump 1.0 and I have been labeled a delusional alarmist, amongst many other less flattering things. The signs are right in front of us! Read the Georgia Guidestones (aka The Pyramids of the South)! The 1st order of business is what? To reduce the world population AND MAINTAIN it at 500,000 people. Items 2-10 on their wishlist is this utopia they want to build at the expense of 6.7 Billion lives. This, I believe, is the goal of the global chaos that is presently being unleashed. Justice and Equality doesn't fit into this equation.
Yes and they had the audacity to accuse him of being involved! If anyone was involved it would be the orange felon! It’s such a senseless shame lives loss for what! Just Appalling! And yet he’s still allowed to write executive orders! They s/b thrown in the trash immediately from now on along with Steve miller! 😡
Good article WA. You bring to the forefront what is happening in real time. But I tell you this. The resistance is growing. I attended a protest in Texas this weekend. Texas has never known as a bastion of fast progressive movement. Don’t get me wrong. We have a hell of a lot of good, common sense, & loving people down here. But, we have a lot of stone cold hard headed deaf folks down here also. But hear me. The tide is turning. When you feel the tide turning in Texas, that means it is turning everywhere. People are tired of the BS & the meanness. It is old, very old! The good folk are coming forward. That is one hell of a good sign!!! Keep the good work coming Brother!!!
Republicans, the media and t are complicit in planting the seeds of fear in their constituents. They've been doing so for decades. Instilling fear of the government services and social programs. And demonizing entire cultures like immigrants, people of color or the LGBTQIA community. They knew long ago that their words would have real-world consequences. Any excuse they give now is pure weapons grade bull-onium.
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." ~ Yoda
You could hear in Walz's voice he knew the victims were targeted bc they are in his State. He felt terrible bc he's a kind, decent human being. Can't decency be the lowest bar ? Why does the bar have to be bellow Satan's ballZ?
This weekend was tough. It's been a long time since I was really concerned about a nuclear war, but here we are. The juxtaposition of Trump's "Dear Leader" Birthday flop with missiles flying between Israel and Iran was like something out of a Adam McKay film. Preposterous and deeply frightening.
Saturday morning I woke up early to walk my pup before heading to a protest, and the first thing I saw was the news in Minnesota. It made me sick and worried about every single sane elected official at every level in this country. Republican or Democrat, if you speak the truth, you have a target on your back, pure and simple. This new era of cruelty and MAGA mob insanity reminds me of any number of dystopian fictions, pick almost any one and it's a snapshot of now.
Sen. Mike Lee and that giant POS Alec Lace are mocking the deaths of Melissa Hortman, her husband, and her sweet dog Because that kind of sadistic merriment is shared and celebrated by so many of Trump's base. I know it's not half of the country, but it's 77 million too many people.
All these things are indicative of a real profound epidemic of ethical and moral decay. I say ethical, because I do not believe one needs to believe in a higher power to do what's right. And there is an objective right, and a definite wrong. It makes sense to be a community and support one another, to help those less fortunate and to strive toward equality and inclusiveness. It's just right.
We need a seismic sea change in this country (if not the world) that celebrates justice and equality and condemns cruelty and xenophobia. I fear that even if by some miracle we got rid of Trump tomorrow, the many-headed hydra of hatred would regenerate another monstrous head.
With the ineffectual democrats stumbling into one another without direction or purpose, I fear a Trump power vacuum would be replaced by more of the same.
The Democratic Party bashing has gotten old. There are strong Democratic Party governors who are doing stand up work notwithstanding the feckless GOP enablers who know better but have no guts. Time to stop ripping ourselves apart when there is a very real threat to the rule of law that won’t be effectively addressed in the US House at least until January 2027.
Not all Dems are feckless and I should've clarified that. It was a generalization based on the current leadership, and they most certainly have enabled the GOP.
We cannot wait for 2026 or 2027. It's been five months and look where we are! If that POS Mitch McConnell were in Chuck Schumer's position you know the GOP would be tripping up the Dems like a room full of banana peels. I'm sorry but all I see (from leadership) is shoulder shrugging and half-baked comments about "meeting the moment."
We do need unity: Dems, Independents, Republicans, ex-MAGA - I honestly do not care. So long as we build a cohesive resistance that stops the gleeful destruction of democracy we're seeing everyday.
I didn't see any Democratic Party bashing in Leah Anderson's post but now that you brought it up the Democratic Party has shown us for way too long that most of them are just spinless twits, not all but definitely a good percentage of them. It makes the Democratic party seem paralyzed to get us out of this authoritarian mess. What we need is for the Democrats to throw away that old play book because it DOESN'T work anymore, seriously!~ New tactics are in order to get the 77 million that didn't vote in this last election to get out and vote in 2026. We can only hope.
…ineffectual democrats stumbling into one another without direction or purpose - Characterize that however you choose.
I concur with Anderson that we need unity and a cohesive resistance, which means rejecting purity tests and finding common ground to overcome the imbalance on the SCOTUS and the loss of both chambers in the US Congress and in too many State Houses as well as in state courts.
Americans are still sleepwalking, including many, if not most of our elected officials from all political parties. If they're not sleepwalking, they're criminally complicit in this global plan of the elite to re-order society. ... I've been warning about this since tRump 1.0 and I have been labeled a delusional alarmist, amongst many other less flattering things. The signs are right in front of us! Read the Georgia Guidestones (aka The Pyramids of the South)! The 1st order of business is what? To reduce the world population AND MAINTAIN it at 500,000 people. Items 2-10 on their wishlist is this utopia they want to build at the expense of 6.7 Billion lives. This, I believe, is the goal of the global chaos that is presently being unleashed. Justice and Equality doesn't fit into this equation.
This essay is as good a starting point for discussions about the urgent global social sea change that is needed. It suggests that we are all infected, to a greater or lesser degree, by a mind virus that expresses in various forms of destructive cannibalism: https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/seeing-wetiko-on-capitalism-mind-viruses-and-antidotes-for-a-world-in-transition/
As far as Guilty Donald thinks, his early investment in stochastic violence is paying off.
But no matter how innocent he pretends to be and in spite of his co-conspirators' gaslighting attempts, we still all see it's him giving the orders.
How about we tar and feather this mfer????
Yes and they had the audacity to accuse him of being involved! If anyone was involved it would be the orange felon! It’s such a senseless shame lives loss for what! Just Appalling! And yet he’s still allowed to write executive orders! They s/b thrown in the trash immediately from now on along with Steve miller! 😡
Good article WA. You bring to the forefront what is happening in real time. But I tell you this. The resistance is growing. I attended a protest in Texas this weekend. Texas has never known as a bastion of fast progressive movement. Don’t get me wrong. We have a hell of a lot of good, common sense, & loving people down here. But, we have a lot of stone cold hard headed deaf folks down here also. But hear me. The tide is turning. When you feel the tide turning in Texas, that means it is turning everywhere. People are tired of the BS & the meanness. It is old, very old! The good folk are coming forward. That is one hell of a good sign!!! Keep the good work coming Brother!!!
Republicans, the media and t are complicit in planting the seeds of fear in their constituents. They've been doing so for decades. Instilling fear of the government services and social programs. And demonizing entire cultures like immigrants, people of color or the LGBTQIA community. They knew long ago that their words would have real-world consequences. Any excuse they give now is pure weapons grade bull-onium.
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." ~ Yoda
Good points all, Waj , and will reStack ASAP 🙏
Boelter was a Tim Walz appointee. The victims were moderate Democrats. This blood is on the Left's hands. As usual.
Boy is someone making a lot of over the top assumptions in this rant.
May cooler heads prevail.
What rant are you talking about?
I found this opine very over the top with lots of opinion but certainly much lacking in hard facts. That's my opinion of this -rant-