He’s a disgrace. It’s so embarrassing, but beyond that, he’s damaging to the lives of so many 😢
Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, as well as those in others. Use your voice and make some “good trouble” ❤️🩹🤍💙
Remember the old days when both parties ran real Americans for President? We knew we would have a law abiding, Constitution following person leading us and didn't have to worry about a human wreck, mentally, emotionally and psychologically out of control in the White House?
How could we have possibly voted such a classless and unqualified man as our President again? It boggles the mind!
MAGAs told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, we'd be at war within 6 months of Inauguration Day. I did and here we are... 🙄
Oh! It only took Trump 5 months 🤦♀️
This "Don't blame me, I voted for her" shirt goes everywhere with me now 👇
He's really going to melt down and flip out Sunday night when Mike Pence gets his award. Trump is not going to get the Nobel Peace Prize he so obsessively and desperately wants, and then...the VP he tried to have hung is getting a very prestigious award in a very public ceremony.
My domestic partner, of 25 years, knows how much all this burns me, saddens me, engulfs me, engages me and isolates me.
I’ve been on a decade crusade of learning to understand MAGA, Trump, political issues, hypocrisy, religious extremism, neo-reactionaries, enter tech, division, racism, propaganda, how to control your incoming, navigate discourse, the endgames, the corruption, convicted offenses, more support for more convictions, cognitive dissonance, the victim, the others, the within and infrastructure, I admit, wasn’t a previous thing of mine!!
Now, I began to express an anger so deep about SCOTUS decision on Monday, until I was stopped.
He asked me do I really hate America that much? Look around people are living life and you can’t seem to manage your emotions, anxiety, and talk about your concerns to whom? I’m not interested. Good for Trump for attacking Iran.
I froze. The man has never voted for Trump. He knows this is deeply personal for me and I’m guilty for only beginning this quest in my late 30’s.
I turned to him and said I love my country, defects and all, and you’re obviously oblivious to everything I’ve ever said. I hate what is happening to the country.
I still am swallowing the bile that rose in my throat.
To top it off he said move to Canada. What have they done? Italy moving gold bars is idiotic as what power do they have? When you’re on top you’re a target and he’s the leader of the free world.
I’m writing mad AF, I don’t know this person or where TF he gets his information, apparently not my suggestions, and I want to burst into tears but refuse.
If this happened, right now, after all my unheard words, concerns, facts, I think is he defending the indefensible? Is he poking the bear? WTAF.
No, he’s like so many who until he is living under a bridge he doesn’t know what is happening or what is coming.
How TF does one navigate a stranger when calmly and not calmly been trying to talk to him with apparently zero success.
That’s my share. It fkn gutted me. He knows my story well and that I have no time to waste on him anymore.
Oh, and I stopped speaking to my born again Obama voter, now Trump supporting mother in 2020.
It’s so toxic. Toxic to my soul. I guess he’s ok being the end of the poem from the Nazi era..then they came for me…..
I hear you. We hear you. So very sorry what you just dealt with. “Agent Orange” is successful at one thing, vengefully dividing people, even those we are closest to.
Thank you so much for replying, Karen. It made my day much better. It is embarrassing to admit this because I've never nose-dived into politics this way. I knew the candidates, the issues, but not a psychopath bent on destruction and revenge for his own guilt, and take it out on human lives, and so many who enable it.
The "It won't happen here" thing. Ironically, I've read so much and taken post grad classes, in psychology, on HITLER but, didn't know the Trump back story was so dangerous. It's worse with the internet and SM. I have hopeful days and very doomsday days. Life, right?
It became a past time until it became a frustration that with no platform all I could do was write, call, learn and now I'm "obsessed" and "hate my country". I was shell shocked.
I appreciate your encouraging words as I know I'm definitely not alone. It only feels as if!
Aww, I'm so glad I was of some help. You are right, you are not alone. I had a conservative friend in 2012, who was kind, reached out to everyone in the neighborhood who needed any kind of help. I will always be grateful to her for a job referral when my mom passed, after I had been her caretaker. Well a long story short, she changed from a reasonable person who saw both sides, we used to joke about our political differences. Those days are long gone, the kind person I knew has amazingly turned into a bully, mean and sarcastic. Our friendship came to a final clanging close this year. It really is scary how easily Sociopaths can manipulate people like her. But anyways, our shared experience has happened all across the Nation. This posting by Walsh gives us some understanding of why. But I still think we are the majority, the silent majority who are decent people. So please don't hate your Country, fight for it however we can.
I don't hate my country. Just the opposite. This journey to learn and to talk to people began when I believed that DJT was going to be trouble, back in 2016, and it's worse now. I almost wish he'd have won in 20. That should make sense.
He's a vile example of the Federalists and The Robert's Court immunity decision was just as vile.
I'll keep at it. Right now I just hate my partner!!! It won't last because my brain spins hot and I'll be back at something else regarding the daily developments and hopefully he learned that this country has suffered over the last fifty years to get to this moment. The internet has done no good in this realm.
We have much to do and we will get it done. It takes communities not militaries. Willingness not threats. Revenge is only resentments of one's own makings. DJT has many, way too many!
This feels like one of the most clear-eyed breakdowns I’ve read lately. That Will Stancil quote is a gut-punch in the age of algorithmic delusion—"We’ve invented a world where it is increasingly difficult to be wrong and know you are wrong." That line alone deserves to be etched above every cable news set and comment thread.
Thank you for not just naming the chaos, but also showing the cracks where actual civic hope might still grow. We need more voices willing to challenge all sides without retreating into cynicism or false balance.
The algorithms of social media, including Substack unfortunately, are designed to keep us “engaged”, translation: reading and clicking. We are predisposed to read things we agree with. It takes significant effort to read something you generally disagree with, such as me reading Orin Cass (he often makes a good point). We won’t get out of this predicament until we can overcome that.
I suspect that every one of the topics used to illisyrate the thesis that Trump doesn't know what he is doing has a counter-argument. I'll just mention the first one, regarding Iran.
The counter-argument goes like this: Trump, during his first term, failed to keep his promise to bomb Iran's nuclear program, so "they" pulled the plug on him and threw the election to their chosen Deep State Senator, from tiny postage-stamp Delaware, a suburb of Wall Street.
This time around, "they" made Trump aware of the price of failure when he lost a chunk of his ear. So Trump, like Zelensky before the big war, fell into line and got it done, sort of but yess it's really super done, believe me, cuz I really want to believe me, and if I bloviate hard enough then maybe "they" won't insist on a follow-up strike.
There, see? Counter-argument delivered, have a nice day.
But now we know it was simply that insane, sociopathic ego of his that made him do it. He was against it until his state run Fox News was for it and extolling his alter ego Netanyahu.
I'll suggest without endorsing an alternative explanation: Trump got his arm twisted behind the scenes and Fox simultaneously received their marching orders.
Perhaps. It is hard for me to believe anyone was able to twist Trumps arm though. He is all about only one person - himself. It appears he delusionally believes only he has the power, and carefully chooses only the most slavishly loyal as his enablers. I believe that is how he has gotten away with a lifetime of criminality. Seriously, look at those closest to him, Miller and Bove. True psychopaths if ever there was one.
Hatred?? No, just the facts. I encourage you to look at his background, how many people he has scammed. Then take a look at Bove, he literally said they were not going to follow the judiciary's orders. And he followed through on that. And now Trump wants to appoint him as a judge??? It doesn't get anymore unlawful than that.
"He Doesn’t Know What TF He’s Doing"
I'm actually more concerned that he doesn't CARE what TF he's doing.
Or he does. And that's even worse...
He doesn’t know and he doesn’t care.
Kim,
Books have been written to say little more than you just expressed.
Thank you.
He’s a disgrace. It’s so embarrassing, but beyond that, he’s damaging to the lives of so many 😢
Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, as well as those in others. Use your voice and make some “good trouble” ❤️🩹🤍💙
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
💯💯💯
Remember the old days when both parties ran real Americans for President? We knew we would have a law abiding, Constitution following person leading us and didn't have to worry about a human wreck, mentally, emotionally and psychologically out of control in the White House?
How could we have possibly voted such a classless and unqualified man as our President again? It boggles the mind!
MAGAs told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, we'd be at war within 6 months of Inauguration Day. I did and here we are... 🙄
Oh! It only took Trump 5 months 🤦♀️
This "Don't blame me, I voted for her" shirt goes everywhere with me now 👇
https://libtees.dashery.com/products/74030236-dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-harris
Harris did warned us!
He's really going to melt down and flip out Sunday night when Mike Pence gets his award. Trump is not going to get the Nobel Peace Prize he so obsessively and desperately wants, and then...the VP he tried to have hung is getting a very prestigious award in a very public ceremony.
This just happened. No, really. Just now.
My domestic partner, of 25 years, knows how much all this burns me, saddens me, engulfs me, engages me and isolates me.
I’ve been on a decade crusade of learning to understand MAGA, Trump, political issues, hypocrisy, religious extremism, neo-reactionaries, enter tech, division, racism, propaganda, how to control your incoming, navigate discourse, the endgames, the corruption, convicted offenses, more support for more convictions, cognitive dissonance, the victim, the others, the within and infrastructure, I admit, wasn’t a previous thing of mine!!
Now, I began to express an anger so deep about SCOTUS decision on Monday, until I was stopped.
He asked me do I really hate America that much? Look around people are living life and you can’t seem to manage your emotions, anxiety, and talk about your concerns to whom? I’m not interested. Good for Trump for attacking Iran.
I froze. The man has never voted for Trump. He knows this is deeply personal for me and I’m guilty for only beginning this quest in my late 30’s.
I turned to him and said I love my country, defects and all, and you’re obviously oblivious to everything I’ve ever said. I hate what is happening to the country.
I still am swallowing the bile that rose in my throat.
To top it off he said move to Canada. What have they done? Italy moving gold bars is idiotic as what power do they have? When you’re on top you’re a target and he’s the leader of the free world.
I’m writing mad AF, I don’t know this person or where TF he gets his information, apparently not my suggestions, and I want to burst into tears but refuse.
If this happened, right now, after all my unheard words, concerns, facts, I think is he defending the indefensible? Is he poking the bear? WTAF.
No, he’s like so many who until he is living under a bridge he doesn’t know what is happening or what is coming.
How TF does one navigate a stranger when calmly and not calmly been trying to talk to him with apparently zero success.
That’s my share. It fkn gutted me. He knows my story well and that I have no time to waste on him anymore.
Oh, and I stopped speaking to my born again Obama voter, now Trump supporting mother in 2020.
It’s so toxic. Toxic to my soul. I guess he’s ok being the end of the poem from the Nazi era..then they came for me…..
I hear you. We hear you. So very sorry what you just dealt with. “Agent Orange” is successful at one thing, vengefully dividing people, even those we are closest to.
Thank you so much for replying, Karen. It made my day much better. It is embarrassing to admit this because I've never nose-dived into politics this way. I knew the candidates, the issues, but not a psychopath bent on destruction and revenge for his own guilt, and take it out on human lives, and so many who enable it.
The "It won't happen here" thing. Ironically, I've read so much and taken post grad classes, in psychology, on HITLER but, didn't know the Trump back story was so dangerous. It's worse with the internet and SM. I have hopeful days and very doomsday days. Life, right?
It became a past time until it became a frustration that with no platform all I could do was write, call, learn and now I'm "obsessed" and "hate my country". I was shell shocked.
I appreciate your encouraging words as I know I'm definitely not alone. It only feels as if!
Thanks again!
Aww, I'm so glad I was of some help. You are right, you are not alone. I had a conservative friend in 2012, who was kind, reached out to everyone in the neighborhood who needed any kind of help. I will always be grateful to her for a job referral when my mom passed, after I had been her caretaker. Well a long story short, she changed from a reasonable person who saw both sides, we used to joke about our political differences. Those days are long gone, the kind person I knew has amazingly turned into a bully, mean and sarcastic. Our friendship came to a final clanging close this year. It really is scary how easily Sociopaths can manipulate people like her. But anyways, our shared experience has happened all across the Nation. This posting by Walsh gives us some understanding of why. But I still think we are the majority, the silent majority who are decent people. So please don't hate your Country, fight for it however we can.
I don't hate my country. Just the opposite. This journey to learn and to talk to people began when I believed that DJT was going to be trouble, back in 2016, and it's worse now. I almost wish he'd have won in 20. That should make sense.
He's a vile example of the Federalists and The Robert's Court immunity decision was just as vile.
I'll keep at it. Right now I just hate my partner!!! It won't last because my brain spins hot and I'll be back at something else regarding the daily developments and hopefully he learned that this country has suffered over the last fifty years to get to this moment. The internet has done no good in this realm.
We have much to do and we will get it done. It takes communities not militaries. Willingness not threats. Revenge is only resentments of one's own makings. DJT has many, way too many!
Thanks again!
OK, Now you are my cheerleader! Very well said.
👍
Take care!
You as well!!!:)
Excellent article and really appreciated the Will Stancil Tweet. Thank you
Yes that tweet is pretty accurate and it is on both sides of the aisle
Truth.
"There's battle lines being drawn
And nobody's right if everybody's wrong." Buffalo Springfield
This feels like one of the most clear-eyed breakdowns I’ve read lately. That Will Stancil quote is a gut-punch in the age of algorithmic delusion—"We’ve invented a world where it is increasingly difficult to be wrong and know you are wrong." That line alone deserves to be etched above every cable news set and comment thread.
Thank you for not just naming the chaos, but also showing the cracks where actual civic hope might still grow. We need more voices willing to challenge all sides without retreating into cynicism or false balance.
So how can we Stop the madness when Republicans shot down impeachment hearings? Any thoughts on how?
The algorithms of social media, including Substack unfortunately, are designed to keep us “engaged”, translation: reading and clicking. We are predisposed to read things we agree with. It takes significant effort to read something you generally disagree with, such as me reading Orin Cass (he often makes a good point). We won’t get out of this predicament until we can overcome that.
I suspect that every one of the topics used to illisyrate the thesis that Trump doesn't know what he is doing has a counter-argument. I'll just mention the first one, regarding Iran.
The counter-argument goes like this: Trump, during his first term, failed to keep his promise to bomb Iran's nuclear program, so "they" pulled the plug on him and threw the election to their chosen Deep State Senator, from tiny postage-stamp Delaware, a suburb of Wall Street.
This time around, "they" made Trump aware of the price of failure when he lost a chunk of his ear. So Trump, like Zelensky before the big war, fell into line and got it done, sort of but yess it's really super done, believe me, cuz I really want to believe me, and if I bloviate hard enough then maybe "they" won't insist on a follow-up strike.
There, see? Counter-argument delivered, have a nice day.
But now we know it was simply that insane, sociopathic ego of his that made him do it. He was against it until his state run Fox News was for it and extolling his alter ego Netanyahu.
I'll suggest without endorsing an alternative explanation: Trump got his arm twisted behind the scenes and Fox simultaneously received their marching orders.
Perhaps. It is hard for me to believe anyone was able to twist Trumps arm though. He is all about only one person - himself. It appears he delusionally believes only he has the power, and carefully chooses only the most slavishly loyal as his enablers. I believe that is how he has gotten away with a lifetime of criminality. Seriously, look at those closest to him, Miller and Bove. True psychopaths if ever there was one.
You appear to be full of vitriolic hatred.
Hatred?? No, just the facts. I encourage you to look at his background, how many people he has scammed. Then take a look at Bove, he literally said they were not going to follow the judiciary's orders. And he followed through on that. And now Trump wants to appoint him as a judge??? It doesn't get anymore unlawful than that.