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Charlotte Firth's avatar

Oh my that was a scary read.

The thing is that Trump is in a position financially and politically to say what he wants and it is so dirty. Vile and vicious lies against decent people who try and stand up to his lies.

But please guys scary as it is the Democrats must stand up to it, counter back without the need to abuse, but strongly to prove the lies.

I have just read what Pete Buttigieg has just been through with the false allegation involving his children and I am sickened. Trumps regime is so seriously dangerous and will stoop further into the gutter than any rat.

Stay strong and I am holding my breath for the midterms.

Pamela S.'s avatar

Charlotte, I am so comforted to see your comments each day assuring us that you are paying attention and stand with us on the right side of history. I know there are many citizens of countries around the world who also support us as we try to navigate our way out of our national mess. Thank you. ❤️🫶🏻

Charlotte Firth's avatar

Always with love and a huge desire for the world to right itself and put paid to greedy unlovable billionaires and trillionaires who could not give a care in the world to others who do need help through not fault of their own.

Karen Livolsi's avatar

I just read the Buttigieg family’s outrageous experience with swatting using the Dept of Children and Youth. Beyond reprehensible!

Up & Down The Lane w/Elle Lane's avatar

Let’s hope and pray he doesn’t get Musks help this time to change the votes. And white female democrats did not show up last time. Let’s make certain to remind them what is at stake!!

TripleNana7's avatar

“The desperation is the tell.” Imagine any of the great former, actual Speakers of the House saying any such a thing as Mike Johnson; even a watered-down version!

Mike Hammer's avatar

MAGA Mike is a sad, sorry little johnson.

TripleNana7's avatar

Now that, my friend, is funny! Thank you.

Karen Livolsi's avatar

I’m still laughing at the use of antiquated language. Communism? Ask anyone between the ages of 18 and 40 to explain communism. They’ll tell you it’s a sandwich from Primanti Brothers.

Not the cudgel used by Senator Joseph McCarthy to frighten Americans, falsely accuse innocent people of imaginary crimes they might commit, and a litany of behavior so unbelievably disgusting that Congress, sensing the inevitability of their demise (finally) did a brake stand on McCarthyism. It just stopped. McCarthy a well known for being a heavy drinker, died of an acute hepatitis at the age of 48, and unceremoniously dumped in a hole in the ground for all of posterity.

As the McCarthy Spector is being summoned from the long ago, heed his warning Mr Speaker, none of this bodes well for the amoral homunculus’ holding down chairs in this administration.

I Resist's avatar

I was a kid, but I remember McCarthy’s hearings. The Orange gang are a much greater threat because they already have control of over half of the government. PLEASE JOIN THE RESISTANCE. IT’S GOING TO TAKE MILLIONS OF US STANDING UNITED TO TURN THIS AROUND. AND WE WILL TURN IT AROUND BECAUSE WE NEVER GIVE UP AND WE NEVER GIVE IN TO DICTATORS. 💪❤️‍🔥🗽🫶🏼❤️‍🔥🇺🇸💜💪

Up & Down The Lane w/Elle Lane's avatar

He sounded like a crazed person. After many months of thinking it thru,I am convinced beyond a doubt that Drumpf has threatened to kill their families if they don’t bend the knee and do as he says. They are caught between his ego need to be like Hitler or a mafia Don, and the Nazis that wrote Project 2025. I was clueless until I saw the look on Lisa Murkowskis face when she came out of that last meeting they had with her to get her to change her vote and bend the knee. it was on tv and it’s burned in to my memory banks. L

David Hulse's avatar

You made me remember that day in 1963 I was 8. A strange car had followed my grandmother and I home from our church on a Sunday morning, Claremont CA. It was a Unitarian church. We did not talk about any Gods there. My parents and grandparents talked about helping our neighbors. My parents had a folk music club, The Golden Ring. Some of the musicians were black.

When I went out on Monday morning I saw a bumper sticker on my grandmother’s 1961 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors “COMMUNIST”. I asked my Nana what it meant and why it was on her car. 10 years later I was told by my country that I was going to go to fight the communists in Vietnam because they were going to take over our country. My grandfather assured me he and I were leaving for Canada before I would be drafted into that war. I lived in Oakland then, I went to Berkeley with my High School friends, we protested against the war and our government. We were tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets. We ended the fake war against the communists. Yeah that word triggers me.

I loathe the people who are again contorting what I have been taught and learned about the good in people. Sorry for the long comment it needed to be memorialized. I’m ready for the final chapter.

Pamela S.'s avatar

Thank you for sharing your story, David. No wonder this is so real and triggering to you.

David Hulse's avatar

Thank you Pamela. I forgot to add that my grandmother was the chairwoman of the Republican women’s voter league in Claremont. My grandfather was a registered Democrat. We always watched Walter Cronkite during dinner there, on TV trays. 😂

Pamela S.'s avatar

You and I are within a year of the same age. Those days seem like a distant memory in some ways, but they are the days that built who we are now.

Diana's avatar

Thank you David for sharing that story- you remembered a lot from that time - stuff like that you never forget! ♥️

Vince Konig's avatar

I’ve visited the USA on many occasions, both for business and vacation. What has always amazed me is how little the average person knows about other parts of the world. Don’t let the little Mike Johnsons of this world fool you into believing there is such a thing as the radical left or socialism (let alone communism) in the US. The democrats would be considered right wing or maybe on the political centre in Europe. Don’t let the Republicans scare you with their misleading rhetoric and please do accept that there is nothing wrong with being social (not to be confused with socialistic). Being social means you stand for a fair distribution of wealth, so the strongest shoulders carry the heaviest load. The Republicans want the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer or better even, to disappear. With this administration you are on the road to destruction. Authoritarianism always ends with disaster and has to be stopped. Unless you change the political climate, there will be nothing left than claiming that you did not know when it is all over. That is what happened in WW2 in Europe. And that is why you have to think before you believe politicians. In general, but certainly when it involves money obsessed Republicans, who confuse Christianity with Christian Nationalism and these two things could not be more different. People like Mike Johnson are dangerous. Don’t be trapped into believing their disgusting interpretation of the Bible, it is wrong on so many levels. To strive for a fair distribution of wealth is not left wing, let alone radical. It is just the right thing to do.

Chris G Day's avatar

I couldn’t have put it better myself and being a Brit looking in from the outside and having a keen interest in the political machinations of all kinds of administrations, I feel implored to add one further warning (for the umpteenth time), which is:

The more time you allow the Trump administration to dismantle your democracy, the harder it will be to prevent it and recover when the last desperate dominoes fall. NOW (4th July) is the time ALL fair-minded Americans must show up to fill the streets with their voices to PROTECT DEMOCRACY while it is still possible! November may be too little, too late!

Get out on the streets to show your disappointment, your disapproval and your disgust -do NOT let Trump claim you are on the streets to support HIS disgraceful policies and behaviour (as he surely will if his favourite media twist reality as they will also be forced to do).

It’s going to get dirtier and true Americans must turn up to be counted NOW!

Up & Down The Lane w/Elle Lane's avatar

Why isn’t anyone talking about the facts that Drumpf is the communist here. Drumpfs (the original spelling of his family’s German name) whole family before him were all German Hitler followers and communists who worshipped Hitler. Ivana Drumpf, in her divorce deposition testified to the fact that Hitlers book Mein Kampf was on Drumpfs bedside table the entirety of their marriage and that he read it over and over again, always telling her that he wanted to be just like Hitler.

Since the beginning of his second presidency he has been working his way down the table of contents of Mein Kampf. Read them. Familiarize yourself and what he is doing, from murdering citizens to jailing others in gulags across our country. He is secretly working on either consolidating or putting his people in charge of all of the major news agencies in his quest to make a state run news agency under his control. This man thinks he is the reincarnation of Hitler, beyond just being an enthralled devotee, he thinks he is him. His dementia addled brain has taken him off the rails and into the communism that Johnson spoke about. It is his dream come true. We must not let them get away with this. We must show up at the polls in the millions this time. NO SITTING THE MIDTERMS OUT. And that means everybody, including white female democrats who didn’t vote in 2024, must show up and vote this time.

The republicans are joined in solidarity when it comes to helping Drumpf get what he wants. The Nazi party, otherwise named The Project 2025 authors, are gunning for just this to happen. They are trying their damndest to get judges to stop mail in voting or anything else they can do to quash this upcoming election. We are voting for our lives here. We are voting for our country, and our democracy. We can’t let our reputation and our years of fighting for freedom be taken away by power crazed communist Nazis.

WE MUST GET OUT THE VOTE. START AS SOON AS YOU CAN BEFORE THEY FIND A WAY TO MAKE OUR VOTES DISAPPEAR LIKE THEY DID THE LAST TIME.

VOTE 💙💙💙💙💙BLUE💙💙💙💙💙!!!!!!!!!

Please share this far and wide. We must reach every democratic person in this country.

Charlotte Firth's avatar

Sadly cannot share it but wholeheartedly agree with all you are saying. Good luck fight hard and decently as the other side are fighting dirty.

BJ Zamora's avatar

You can call Donald Drumpf many, many names, but a Communist no. His family has been proudly fascists and cowards for generations. Think who in his family has ever served any government in any war. Rich greedy men have always used the threat of communism while the Don has always cozied up to Putin and his Russian version of more modern version of it.

But Americans who oppose this Republican effort to create a White Christian (as defined by them) Nation may be anti capitalist and certainly anti fascist (hence “ANTIFA), but they are NOT communists or fascists.

Republicans, get over it. It is you who want a fascist, Nazi like country run by only you and your buddies.

Up & Down The Lane w/Elle Lane's avatar

After looking up the difference, now I’m confused, because I was using Putin in my minds definition of communist. I reread it a couple more times and also different cites and have come to a new conclusion that Drumpf wants to be both, Adolph Hitler and the a communist for his project 2025 buddies.

John Foster's avatar

Oh dear oh dear throughout this article I get the impression that when looking at this great country of mine Republicans would see us as a Marxist communist state-I’m sorry we’ve got a healthcare system which is free at the point of delivery but most of us like it that way. in a few minutes time I’ll be off to catch a bus which is free to pensioners which will take me to my little Welsh Bordertown where I’ll meet my chums and some will talk about how they rushed off to hospital when they had a stroke or had a free knee replacement operation or had a great cataract operation at one of the nations greatest regional of ophthalmic surgery hubs. all of this and not a red flag in sight.

George McCully's avatar

Right on, Heather! The Trumpists, having put their heads together in desperation from the poll numbers and election results, have decided that their only hope now is to revert to what worked long ago, in the days of the Cold War: fear of communism! This is laughable, and deserves to be properly ridiculed. Make it a laughing stock, nothing to be afraid of.

Patrick Bates's avatar

It’s funny that communism is the concern when Trump LOVES and is “close friends” with Putin, Jinping and Un.🤪

Suel J's avatar

Nothing they say can be trusted at all.

Christina Stuart's avatar

History repeating itself is a bit like weeds in the garden. Certain unhealthy elements pop up time and again, and if not pulled by the roots, they will return and multiply, taking over a multicoloured flowering garden. These new McCarthyistic weeds, need pulling out, so our landscape garden can grow and breath again. This only needs good, honest strong hands willing to work a bit harder than usual.

Craig Rockwell's avatar

The Republican Party of right wing extremism. Trying to kill a democracy that has stood for 250 years. It has to be stopped.

TJ's avatar

Seems MAGA Mikey thinks he is some “capos” in the La Cosa Nostra… Frankly at the point that Felon along with all his loyalists have been running our government like the “family business” with all the grift going on…

Watched that Felon today as these foul words were spewing out as he was literally throwing out raw meat rhetoric to the masses of those “Christians sitting in that audience”. It was Joseph McCarthy on steroids and way too close to Hitler’s references to "Bolshevism" (Communism) which was a central component of Nazi ideology, synthesized into a single, fabricated conspiracy theory known as "Judeo-Bolshevism". In Hitler’s worldview, Communism was not a legitimate political or economic system, but a biological and racial weapon manufactured by Jewish people to conquer and destroy the world. In our current world don’t think it’s a stretch that Trump is synthesizing the current political party of the Democrats to Communists…

Will also say they fear us all and will stop at nothing to squelch our votes and voices.. They know that they have already lost.. and will pull out anything and everything. Stay safe and healthy and hold on… only 128 days til midterms.…

Suel J's avatar

He is a shameful piece of shit. He might as well be drinking Kool aid in Guyana with Jim.

Steve Below, Burst of Empathy's avatar

They have the one party.

They have the despot.

They have the conflict of interests.

They have the 4 trillion dollar fiasco of an administration without anything but disaster to show for it.

Barbara Wilkinson's avatar

At 71 years old, this very well be the most frightening 13 minutes of my life. Words matter. Labels matter. And talking about labels, he’ll go beyond communism. It will be a new, harsher form of government. Trumpism. His ego would have it no other way.

What we need is more people like Gavin Newsom. Vocal and in a position to be heard nationwide, making sure everyone is paying attention to what is really going on here.

Derek Smith's avatar

We should not forget that Johnson is a true adherent to the Seven Mountain Mandate, an extreme Dominionist form of ‘Christianity’ far removed from the teachings of the compassionate Christ. He and his Republican sociopaths are only in it for the money and power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

do'daa's avatar

There once was a saying about the “golden rule”, I.e., “those who have the gold, rule”. Yes, it sounds like they have reached desperation times. Maybe the light of the truth is beginning to melt the gold down.

Djt has only brought out into the open what was always present. It was present but hiding in plain sight.

But djt, due to his blind heart, seems to have brought it tumbling out haphazardly because he’s a dipshit, and now his enablers and handlers are trying to scramble and circle the wagons.

But this is indigenous land and the land is on our side. Here the air knows us, the wind knows us, and the sunlight.

Once thievery and deceit is revealed, it will not stand a chance.

Chris G Day's avatar

FEAR destroys Democracy!

No one (not even a dyed-in-the-wool Republican) should see Johnson’s play as anything but FEAR for the outcomes of this administration’s disgraceful behaviour. He knows what’s coming and he’s already become the cornered rat that will do anything to protect himself (and his ‘rat-pack’ of criminals).

We can only hope that, even under the pressure from Johnson and Trump, no self-respecting Republican will stick around for much longer to have their reputation ruined by association to this kind of despicable propaganda. If they do, when they lose in November, they WILL deserve whatever is coming to them!

Americans who believe in the power of a FREE and FAIR Democracy MUST use their vote to end this charade of normality and bring TRUE democracy back to the nation.

I have been warning that these next few months would be used to prevent as many Democrats as possible from voting and THIS shows just how low and dirty it’s going to get!

Get out on 4th July and show the desperate Repugnant-licans what decent Americans are prepared to DO to protect the country they love!

GET OUT and PROTECT (not protest) your very life!

Suel J's avatar

As of now all Republicans are painted with the same brush of ignorance and stupidity. Incapable of independent thought. Bet their constituents didn't know they were not working for them, but for trump, helping him trash America.

Jo's avatar

You wrote, "We can only hope that, even under the pressure from Johnson and Trump, no self-respecting Republican will stick around for much longer to have their reputation ruined by association to this kind of despicable propaganda."

There are no self-respecting Republicans left. Hasn't that been clear for the past 17 months?

Count on them all going along with the administration.