Quite right, the GOP has been plotting this control of the country for decades. To be a part of the GOP is to subscribe to that plot and acquiesce. They are indeed evil in every sense. Per the Cambridge Dictionary: Evil is generally defined as profoundly immoral, wicked, or harmful behavior
I'd go back further, to the now-infamous (Lewis) Powell memo of 1971 (which was anti-New Deal and very pro-corporation) and to Nixon's "southern strategy" -- and don't discount the opposition to Roe v. Wade (1973), which culminated decades later in the Dobbs decision (2022), once the Supreme Court was jam-packed with far-righties.
With the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, the white Southerners had lost control of the Democratic Party -- and hence of Congress: the Southern Dems had racked up serious seniority (i.e., power) in both Senate and House because they generally ran unopposed.
The wealthy and corporate had long gravitated to the Republicans (who helped precipitate the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Depression), but alone they didn't have the votes to turn elections. They got that by harnessing the white grievance vote and electing Reagan, whose administration was far kinder to the corporations than to white people but they cleverly concealed this by bashing DEI, "welfare queens," etc.
Now it's looking like the Republicans have crashed the whole country, or at least its standing in the world -- and once again the Democrats are supposed to clean up the mess. In the past they've then handed the country back to the Republicans, but I'm not sure that's going to work this time.
Trump is threatening primaries for disloyal senators in 2028. By then he will be so enfeebled politically and physically that he will not be a factor. He's dying before our very eyes no matter what the bullshit pronouncements from the WH or the scripted pronouncements from Walter Reed say. Weekend at Bernie's is coming...
He keeps spiraling and spiraling and spiraling....and yet he never hits bottom. He's still there, maybe asleep a lot of the time, but still destroying something of value in this country every day, to the endless delight of his hard-core worshipers. The truly terrible part is that one American out of three STILL loves the idea of crushing black civil rights, taking away women's rights, harassing and tormenting immigrants, persecuting homosexuals, despoiling the environment, eliminating vaccine mandates, destroying Social Security and Medicare, restoring Confederate statues, invading and taking over other countries, etc, etc. etc. Have said before and will say again: he will be a vicious, destructive menace until the day he's pronounced DEAD!
Yes! And there's also yet another young, bleach-blonde woman who helps him write the more grammatically correct of his "truth"-social screeds. I've forgotten her name, but saw an article about her recently, in which it was speculated that she's also his "paramour." As if that reeking pile of rotting pig-shit could get it up with a derrick!
I see no reason why Netanyahu would be pleased -- especially since Israel is not benefiting from the Iran war either. Netanyahu is not an enemy of the U.S. He is only an enemy of his own people.
Has anyone else had the unsettling thought of what would happen if one of our major enemies attacked us right now? Who the hell would be "leading" the country?
Yes, and it terrifies me. Not even one of our major enemies, but many of them. The World Cup. The Olympics. The thought of multiple terrorist attacks. I lived through 9/11 when we at least had all the good will of the entire world. Now we are isolated. There is no one in charge to trust. No security. Low on ammunition. The world knows it. They know he threatens and blusters then does nothing. What a nightmare 🙏
So true. And we have no allies, no friends, except putin (?) and possibly North Korea. Netanyahu is only an ally of t's, the rest of us mean nothing to him.
I have! And it's frightening! He has his finger on the nuclear trigger! Thank God that a nuclear exchange favors no one and even with this moron and this administration that will be a bridge too far!i
Another grand-slam from the insightful master writer in Milford Pa! Wow, how you detail a spade being a spade is brilliant. Thank you too Tracy, Ruby and felines.
You don't want it faster. You want him to last until the next Congress is sworn in. At this time Trump's poor management gives us an advantage. A take over by the VP is the last thing we want in the next 7 months. Give some thought about that possible sequence of events.
There's little doubt that Trump is a complete mess! If I'm not mistaken I think it was Napoleon that said, and I'm paraphrasing, if your opponent is making a mistake don't do anything to help him or correct it. Let him keep going! In this case, I don't want to see him kick the bucket until after the next Congress is seated. Then if he wants to take a hike, that would be the best gift of 2027!
Trump is so feeble, he may not last that long, but he is still the devil you know versus the devil you don't know.
I met a woman several weeks ago in April and she studied nursing. She said it's likely that he has kidney disease and probably won't last until the midterms! He does not look well at all.
I went out to dinner tonight with some friends and someone said perhaps the DJT we are currently seeing is AI! What do you think of that? The real one is almost dead or already dead!
The real problem is his demise - not the actual one necessarily, but the one where he’s declared dead by whoever is pulling e the strings - could be the reason the election is canceled. The country is in mourning etc etc.
Thr second real problem
Is the succession statute. It’s full of incompetent slime-buckets, and one not incompetent but without a teaspoon of decency - and he leads the succession list.
I twitch at the thought of Vance being the next POTUS. He would probably go the same way as Charlie Kirk, however, even with secret service protection. And I guess Grassly is next on the list. He’s only age 92.
I personally think it’s cardiac. Blood thinners can cause those random purple bruises.
One possibility is
FTD complicated by HTN, CHF, AFIB and Stage 3 kidney failure. In isolation most of his chronic illnesses could be managed. The combination of all of them is potentially lethal.
He could also have type 2 DM.
Essentially anybody who reaches the age of 70 will have at least 2 chronic diseases.
Things that could worsen his dementia include
Elevated blood glucose
Poorly managed HTN
Electrolyte imbalances
The last three contribute to the development of vascular dementia.
He is standing by his grave with one foot on a banana peel.
Just hope that Trump remains as President until the new Congress gets to work in January. The $ price of letting him have the last fling at playing with his toys is pretty small potatoes.
What we don't need is a takeover by Thiel's gang in the middle of the '26 election process.
You are probably right. But keep in mind that his "team" has a vested interest in keeping him "alive". I doubt the new president will have any interest in Trump"s people.
Every single sycophantic member of his cabinet and inner circle knows how fast they will be on the street when Not-King Donald finally collapses. None of them wants that to happen before they have a parachute and a safe landing spot. Imho the IV bruises on his hands are because he is receiving daily infusions of whole blood or something (doctors please comment) that are keeping him (sort of) alive, along with the Adderall that makes him intermittently semi-cogent, at least enough to read off a teleprompter. The whole inner circle at this point has to be very busy propping up Donnie the UnDead. I hope they can keep a simulacrum of him sort of functioning until January when the next-please god-Blue Wave Congress is seated.
Trump’s inability to articulate how he wants to end this war, and his inability to stick with what he says, is a danger to our country and the world. Everyone including Iran, China and Russia sees this and will take advantage of us. And he’s spending us into further bankruptcy with ballrooms, reflecting pools, UFC fights, slush funds that we’re going to pay for. Just total incompetence from him and his Cabinet.
The devil is coming for him soon! As his niece Dr. Mary Trump has stated many times her uncle Don the Con in her professional opinion has not one single redeeming quality!!! My champagne is on ice!!!
If it were anyone else, this would be elder abuse. However, like a bad TV show about a really bad family that has amassed money and power and now can't hurt enough people, this has viewer interest, and if we're lucky it will be canceled this Fall. However, you and I both know that the people who most badly want to hurt the poor and non-white are armed, and I don't think we're getting out of this one without a few Sanctuary Cities under siege by the Sons of Well-Compensated Insurrectionists.
I was thinking the other day about whether the Trolley Problem is included in cognitive tests, and if so, whether Trump asked which way he'd have to throw the lever to kill everybody.
Pretty soon we won't understand a single word he utters...Right now, he doesn't understand a single word anyone else utters. He just fills in the blanks with superlatives.
We really need to listen to psychiatrists like Dr. John Gardner when he says this Cornered Animal will use a nuclear weapon. Listen to his podcasts, for God’s sake.
I can imagine he would try. But I can't imagine that any of his aides would let him. They don't want the immediate payback strike from whatever country he hits to be aimed squarely at him, and them.
That is my biggest fear. There is no bottom with this regime and the likelihood of his launching a nuke increases every day as his ability to “win” in Iran decreases.
And god only knows what he has in mind for Cuba. The oil blockade is already destroying life on the island.
Lucian, as you so well (and tirelessly; earning our gratitude) document, this country has gone from having a POTUS to a NCMOUS. Non Compos Mentis Of US/us.
As taco spirals downward , into a babbling mass of orange protoplasm, we should ponder for a moment on his, “next up.” That would be Mr Nobody, JD, a wholly artificial person, created by a billionaire for this moment. Everything about Vance is fake, even his name! Taco has treated him more like a pet, running him back and forth, and housing him whenever he threatened to get in the way.
But the time is coming when JD will be numero uno. Of course he won’t be alone, and he won’t be off the leash. They have spent a lot of money have the billionaires to buy themselves a country, we are about to see how good they at running one.
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” -James Baldwin
GOP, et al.
That would fit except that the GOP are actually wicked.
Quite right, the GOP has been plotting this control of the country for decades. To be a part of the GOP is to subscribe to that plot and acquiesce. They are indeed evil in every sense. Per the Cambridge Dictionary: Evil is generally defined as profoundly immoral, wicked, or harmful behavior
- Karen Cooper
Going all the way back to Reagan. boosted by Gingrich, McConnell, et al.
I'd go back further, to the now-infamous (Lewis) Powell memo of 1971 (which was anti-New Deal and very pro-corporation) and to Nixon's "southern strategy" -- and don't discount the opposition to Roe v. Wade (1973), which culminated decades later in the Dobbs decision (2022), once the Supreme Court was jam-packed with far-righties.
With the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, the white Southerners had lost control of the Democratic Party -- and hence of Congress: the Southern Dems had racked up serious seniority (i.e., power) in both Senate and House because they generally ran unopposed.
The wealthy and corporate had long gravitated to the Republicans (who helped precipitate the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Depression), but alone they didn't have the votes to turn elections. They got that by harnessing the white grievance vote and electing Reagan, whose administration was far kinder to the corporations than to white people but they cleverly concealed this by bashing DEI, "welfare queens," etc.
Now it's looking like the Republicans have crashed the whole country, or at least its standing in the world -- and once again the Democrats are supposed to clean up the mess. In the past they've then handed the country back to the Republicans, but I'm not sure that's going to work this time.
The "Resurrection" of Confederate statues is telling!
When the neo-Confederates swore that "the South will rise again," they weren't kidding -- and they've been at it since around 1876.
The United Nations has defined evil as the inability to show empathy.
Empathy is what separates us from the reptiles... but then...
"I told you I was a snake before you took me in."
He's circling the drain. May his whole ship of fools be sucked down with him.
Then we can get on with the business of forming a more perfect Union.
YES!
There is that.
Trump likely has made a pact with the Devil, in some sense beyond the literal notion of that, and has feckless GOP helpers engaged in the same thing.
Al Bellenchia, Do you have where he said or wrote this?
According to goodreads — the quotation comes from _The Fire Next Time._
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7942310-a-civilization-is-not-destroyed-by-wicked-people-it-is
Trump is threatening primaries for disloyal senators in 2028. By then he will be so enfeebled politically and physically that he will not be a factor. He's dying before our very eyes no matter what the bullshit pronouncements from the WH or the scripted pronouncements from Walter Reed say. Weekend at Bernie's is coming...
It's here. He's rolled out in a golf cart and doesn't even know where he is.
He keeps spiraling and spiraling and spiraling....and yet he never hits bottom. He's still there, maybe asleep a lot of the time, but still destroying something of value in this country every day, to the endless delight of his hard-core worshipers. The truly terrible part is that one American out of three STILL loves the idea of crushing black civil rights, taking away women's rights, harassing and tormenting immigrants, persecuting homosexuals, despoiling the environment, eliminating vaccine mandates, destroying Social Security and Medicare, restoring Confederate statues, invading and taking over other countries, etc, etc. etc. Have said before and will say again: he will be a vicious, destructive menace until the day he's pronounced DEAD!
As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
He is propped up and controlled by his cohorts like Stephen Miller.
President Miller, you mean
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Yes! And there's also yet another young, bleach-blonde woman who helps him write the more grammatically correct of his "truth"-social screeds. I've forgotten her name, but saw an article about her recently, in which it was speculated that she's also his "paramour." As if that reeking pile of rotting pig-shit could get it up with a derrick!
He does love his blondes!
Natalie Harp, she is as sick as Hope Hicks was.
Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu must be so pleased. Seems as if the US military shot its wad in exchange for our food, healthcare, education, and more.
It’s beyond the time to wonder what’s going on here.
I see no reason why Netanyahu would be pleased -- especially since Israel is not benefiting from the Iran war either. Netanyahu is not an enemy of the U.S. He is only an enemy of his own people.
Let's see how long it takes for Bibi and Trump to fall out.
Can't see that happening. Bibi loves Donald and Donald gives Bibi everything he wants.
Perhaps because he and Lindsay Graham started it?
https://martindvasquez.substack.com/p/lindsey-graham-started-a-war-bragged
Has anyone else had the unsettling thought of what would happen if one of our major enemies attacked us right now? Who the hell would be "leading" the country?
Yes, and it terrifies me. Not even one of our major enemies, but many of them. The World Cup. The Olympics. The thought of multiple terrorist attacks. I lived through 9/11 when we at least had all the good will of the entire world. Now we are isolated. There is no one in charge to trust. No security. Low on ammunition. The world knows it. They know he threatens and blusters then does nothing. What a nightmare 🙏
So true. And we have no allies, no friends, except putin (?) and possibly North Korea. Netanyahu is only an ally of t's, the rest of us mean nothing to him.
Neither Putin nor Netanyahu have actual friends, they only have tools.
I worry about that too. We are on our own and anything is possible.
I have! And it's frightening! He has his finger on the nuclear trigger! Thank God that a nuclear exchange favors no one and even with this moron and this administration that will be a bridge too far!i
Hopefully, they who ever they is gave him the wrong code!
We’ll see.
I've thought about it quite often and I wonder which of our enemies (of which we now have so many) will be the first to realize it's the moment.
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Very scary!
I have often had that thought, yes.
Major Major Major Major Hegseth...as our favorite German Colonel said...It's a Bingo!!!
Another grand-slam from the insightful master writer in Milford Pa! Wow, how you detail a spade being a spade is brilliant. Thank you too Tracy, Ruby and felines.
Tracy proofreads Lucian's postings. Ruby and The Felines provide comfort and stress relief.
They all make quite a team
Agree!!!
How can we make it go faster?
You don't want it faster. You want him to last until the next Congress is sworn in. At this time Trump's poor management gives us an advantage. A take over by the VP is the last thing we want in the next 7 months. Give some thought about that possible sequence of events.
There's little doubt that Trump is a complete mess! If I'm not mistaken I think it was Napoleon that said, and I'm paraphrasing, if your opponent is making a mistake don't do anything to help him or correct it. Let him keep going! In this case, I don't want to see him kick the bucket until after the next Congress is seated. Then if he wants to take a hike, that would be the best gift of 2027!
Trump is so feeble, he may not last that long, but he is still the devil you know versus the devil you don't know.
I met a woman several weeks ago in April and she studied nursing. She said it's likely that he has kidney disease and probably won't last until the midterms! He does not look well at all.
I went out to dinner tonight with some friends and someone said perhaps the DJT we are currently seeing is AI! What do you think of that? The real one is almost dead or already dead!
AI Donald wouldn’t have hand bruises or neck rashes.
The real problem is his demise - not the actual one necessarily, but the one where he’s declared dead by whoever is pulling e the strings - could be the reason the election is canceled. The country is in mourning etc etc.
Thr second real problem
Is the succession statute. It’s full of incompetent slime-buckets, and one not incompetent but without a teaspoon of decency - and he leads the succession list.
I twitch at the thought of Vance being the next POTUS. He would probably go the same way as Charlie Kirk, however, even with secret service protection. And I guess Grassly is next on the list. He’s only age 92.
Mike Johnson is third.
Then I think it is Marco Rubio….
The FTD is more likely to kill him first.
He could also have afib and CHF.
I personally think it’s cardiac. Blood thinners can cause those random purple bruises.
One possibility is
FTD complicated by HTN, CHF, AFIB and Stage 3 kidney failure. In isolation most of his chronic illnesses could be managed. The combination of all of them is potentially lethal.
He could also have type 2 DM.
Essentially anybody who reaches the age of 70 will have at least 2 chronic diseases.
Things that could worsen his dementia include
Elevated blood glucose
Poorly managed HTN
Electrolyte imbalances
The last three contribute to the development of vascular dementia.
He is standing by his grave with one foot on a banana peel.
I like that idea!
Just hope that Trump remains as President until the new Congress gets to work in January. The $ price of letting him have the last fling at playing with his toys is pretty small potatoes.
What we don't need is a takeover by Thiel's gang in the middle of the '26 election process.
Too late regarding Thiel.
Captain Bonespurs is a walking corpse.
Reminds me of the movie Weekend at Bernie’s.
You are probably right. But keep in mind that his "team" has a vested interest in keeping him "alive". I doubt the new president will have any interest in Trump"s people.
That would be the only good thing to come of it, if he ousted Herr Nosferatu Miller.
The Miller. A separate category. A subhuman life form that has hijacked a human body. An interesting subject for future scientific research.
Agreed, a scientific anomaly.
Every single sycophantic member of his cabinet and inner circle knows how fast they will be on the street when Not-King Donald finally collapses. None of them wants that to happen before they have a parachute and a safe landing spot. Imho the IV bruises on his hands are because he is receiving daily infusions of whole blood or something (doctors please comment) that are keeping him (sort of) alive, along with the Adderall that makes him intermittently semi-cogent, at least enough to read off a teleprompter. The whole inner circle at this point has to be very busy propping up Donnie the UnDead. I hope they can keep a simulacrum of him sort of functioning until January when the next-please god-Blue Wave Congress is seated.
Trump’s inability to articulate how he wants to end this war, and his inability to stick with what he says, is a danger to our country and the world. Everyone including Iran, China and Russia sees this and will take advantage of us. And he’s spending us into further bankruptcy with ballrooms, reflecting pools, UFC fights, slush funds that we’re going to pay for. Just total incompetence from him and his Cabinet.
The devil is coming for him soon! As his niece Dr. Mary Trump has stated many times her uncle Don the Con in her professional opinion has not one single redeeming quality!!! My champagne is on ice!!!
If it were anyone else, this would be elder abuse. However, like a bad TV show about a really bad family that has amassed money and power and now can't hurt enough people, this has viewer interest, and if we're lucky it will be canceled this Fall. However, you and I both know that the people who most badly want to hurt the poor and non-white are armed, and I don't think we're getting out of this one without a few Sanctuary Cities under siege by the Sons of Well-Compensated Insurrectionists.
I was thinking the other day about whether the Trolley Problem is included in cognitive tests, and if so, whether Trump asked which way he'd have to throw the lever to kill everybody.
Pretty soon we won't understand a single word he utters...Right now, he doesn't understand a single word anyone else utters. He just fills in the blanks with superlatives.
Dr. John Gartner, author of “Duty to Warn”, is convinced trump will use a nuclear weapon. It’s all he’s got left to exert his idea of dominance.
We really need to listen to psychiatrists like Dr. John Gardner when he says this Cornered Animal will use a nuclear weapon. Listen to his podcasts, for God’s sake.
I can imagine he would try. But I can't imagine that any of his aides would let him. They don't want the immediate payback strike from whatever country he hits to be aimed squarely at him, and them.
I think there are others in the administration that would approve of nuclear bomb use.
Miller, and Vance, but Vance will at least lie about it.
Yep
That is my biggest fear. There is no bottom with this regime and the likelihood of his launching a nuke increases every day as his ability to “win” in Iran decreases.
And god only knows what he has in mind for Cuba. The oil blockade is already destroying life on the island.
Another fine column—well done, sir! Blessings, Bob
Lucian, as you so well (and tirelessly; earning our gratitude) document, this country has gone from having a POTUS to a NCMOUS. Non Compos Mentis Of US/us.
As taco spirals downward , into a babbling mass of orange protoplasm, we should ponder for a moment on his, “next up.” That would be Mr Nobody, JD, a wholly artificial person, created by a billionaire for this moment. Everything about Vance is fake, even his name! Taco has treated him more like a pet, running him back and forth, and housing him whenever he threatened to get in the way.
But the time is coming when JD will be numero uno. Of course he won’t be alone, and he won’t be off the leash. They have spent a lot of money have the billionaires to buy themselves a country, we are about to see how good they at running one.
👆🎯