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Ken Chapman's avatar

When this crisis is all over, and it will be, you Heather, will need (and I'm not the least bit religious) an industrial strength exorcism to purge you of all the horrors you've encounted, and had to enumerate.

On behalf of the rest of the world, thank you for your selfless work.

Jack Carter's avatar

The only way against any bully boy is to beat him. He gonna learn his real place very quickly. Fair and square, if possible. Fight back, baby, fight back. Lock him up. There will be enough places in all those ICE warehouses to lock corrupt traitor congress and scotus.

Sky Blue's avatar

The four most effective words to say to a Bully??

"FUCK YOU..MAKE ME!!"

Jack Carter's avatar

Yes. Well… but taking into account that behind him he (still) commands the SS (like in Germany…), the FBI, all so called intelligence agencies and the Army (still) probably a more nuanced and diplomatic approach might be necessary. But if just two of us in a dark alley. A totally different matter. Or you are a very good sniper. The basic question remains if you (anybody in fact) is / are ready to sacrifice yourself to save many more. And his replacement JDV will not better. Pew. Tks!

Jenna bognar's avatar

I have dreamed of having the courage

Mike Hammer's avatar

Exactly. 2Big2Rig

Barbara Baldwin's avatar

I am one of those who lost my health care as a result of Trump’s policies. I am also a brain tumor survivor with continuing neurological issues, and with a family history of cancer. And I’m a retiree on a fixed income. I’m now reduced to rationing my healthcare. I’ve had to cancel my mammogram and my colonoscopy because I cannot afford to self pay. Both my parents died of cancer. I’m playing Russian roulette with my own health because I’m being persecuted by my own government for speaking out. They revoked my passport, costing me my job and my access to affordable health care. Welcome to hell. This is America in 2026. I no longer want to be a part of it. And maybe I won’t even have that choice for much longer given my circumstances.

Gin's avatar

I am so very sorry to read about your struggle. I hope you live to see a turnabout in the healthcare system. It's so distressing to add to your already difficult situation. I wish you well.

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

I am so sorry! I too had breast cancer (1991) and colon cancer (2017). I was lucky I had health insurance through my work in 1991, but in 2017, all I had was Medicare that covered only hospital stays. I ended up not getting chemo because I couldn’t afford it. No one is more surprised than I am that I’m in my 10th year of survival, and now living in the U.K. There’s an awful lot of cancer in my family too!

Barbara Baldwin's avatar

You’ve been through your share, for sure. I was fortunate to have insurance back when I needed my skull cut open. But I’ve spent years uninsured or underinsured since, because my company fired me after I had the audacity to survive the surgery. Only after first denying me disability and access to the retiree health plan, of course.

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

That is appalling! It might have happened to me too if I hadn’t changed jobs right before the breast cancer diagnosis was confirmed. I was incredibly lucky that a colleague at my new job had just gone through chemotherapy and she supported me and advocated for me. I kept working all the way through as I was terrified of losing that job—but I didn’t, and stayed in it for nearly 23 years, when I retired.

Janet Currie's avatar

Barbara, I feel for you. I'm also retired on a fixed income, have a brain tumour (benign), am awaiting a colonoscopy and an ultrasound scan. The difference being that I'm from the UK and medical care is free and has been since I was six years old. Prescriptions are also free for over 60s.

I'm very suspicious of the orange buffoon's 3 time annual checkup. Donald, annual checkups are only once a year. Do you think we're all idiots?,

Diana's avatar

Holy Toledo Barbara!! That is terrible- I hope you can get those tests soon! You read about it- but you’re the first one I’ve read suffering the consequences! I hope things change in November 🤞

Elizabeth Newberry's avatar

I am so sorry that you have been so personally affected. It is clearly WRONG. Everything that Trump has done to our county and our people is CLEARLY WRONG!

George McCully's avatar

Trump is, of course, deep inside his bubble of insanity, where he alone matters to himself, and through its distorting lens he sees the outside world only in terms of himself. No surprise there. Outside the bubble, in the real world where Cornyn, Massey, and other ordinary mortals live, things like the Republican Party, the coming mid-terms, the Iran war and its costs, health care, fuel, our federal government, the Constitution, etc. all "matter" to us but not to the lonely man inside his self-protective bubble. Two worlds, weakly connected by sycophants. Ours is 'way bigger and stronger than his, as we shall soon see. It is excellent help for Heather to microscopically illuminate the differences.

Jenna bognar's avatar

So well said I think that is exactly what we do need to see…a wall of democrats standing up at the White House and saying enough insanity. We have an ill president. He must b charged w crimes against humanity. Arrested and tried now! Where is that wall????

Lynne de Lacy's avatar

This man is truly despicable He cares for no one but himself - who did not even attend his son’s wedding despite initially having just a golfing weekend in his diary

Although I do like the suggestion that he didn’t go because the Bahamas don’t allow convicted sex offenders into their country

Also Dr Gartner a psychologist as a guest on the Daily Beast said ‘the Trump we have today is the best we will ever have as his illnesses mental and physical are degenerative’

Equally disturbing is that Dr G reckons he will use the nuclear button. A malignant narcissist is his diagnosis- that he actually thrives on mayhem and destruction and he will continue to ramp things up just because he can

Look out Cuba you’re next again because he can and as a distraction from all of his failures plus Epstein

And talking of Epstein his Pyrrhic victory of getting rid of Massie means he is now unfettered to read out redacted names one by one on the floor of Congress. He’s outed 3-4 people before but no one associated with Trump administration has been prosecuted- so far but every name will be on record ready for the Democrats to follow up

So thank you again Heather for investigating and writing up all the criminal misdemeanours

Whatever will we do when the world is back on its axis?

Hopefully overhaul the Constitution and the checks and balances so that no one man has this power again Get his face and name off currency ,passports and national buildings ,railway stations and airports and scrape away every last bit of ‘fools gold’

Lynne de Lacy's avatar

I know I’m just quoting the latest commentary

Gin's avatar

Read Bandy X. Lee's substacks. Psychiatrists have been writing about his mental status for some time now.

Shary Essig's avatar

Thank you!!! You deserve the best that life has to offer for your even spoken, honest delivery of the news in a way that reminds us of the way our world used to seem…One of common decency, respect for all who deserve it and love for those who brought us hope and purpose and joy. That world seems to have disappeared… you brought me hope tonight. Thank you for a clear-eyed view that paints the whole picture. I am going to hang on to this moment and pray it will grow…❤️

Frank Comstock's avatar

It’s all scary, Heather, and I thank you for keeping us apprised of all of his machinations. I am particularly disturbed this morning by something that many might have overlooked. In the screen shot of Trump with the gun, part of the URL for truth social reads “1776WeThePeople1776Q”. Q at the end of that part of the URL? That can’t be pure chance. That has to mean something. Are we back to this whole Q conspiracy thing again? The republicans have enough crazies in their midst without that particular group being back in the good graces of those in power.

I served 24 years in the Air Force and I may be the only military person who voted for Jimmy Carter (twice). This current administration scares me. I have never seen anything like this before and yet I lived through the Nixon years. I fear for our democracy and for our country. There are days now when I wonder if my service has meant anything.

Elizabeth Newberry's avatar

Yes! Your service means a lot. Most of us know that. We are just all questioning our future on the same planet with Trump and his craziness. One an be crazy, but they should not have the nuclear codes. They should be in a mental hospital where they belong and are unable to affect others.

Derek Smith's avatar

His fate should be a massive stroke, leaving him in a locked-in syndrome, unable to speak or to bleat from Truth Social, but with perfect sight and hearing. I’m not one to be cruel, but the level of pain and destruction he’s wreaking on our fellow citizens and the citizens of other countries leads me to imagine this awful fate for him. Simply dying and going to Hell isn’t enough: he needs to suffer. (I’m an atheist, so the concept of Hell is a stretch for me. Others who believe in the literal existence of Hell are welcome to respond.)

Elizabeth Newberry's avatar

Isn't it awful that we are all thinking of what ways he can suffer to be equivalent to the suffering he has caused others? I have never been a vindictive person, but so want this man to be gone - however it happens. But you are right - he should suffer as well.

TJ's avatar

During tRump’s first term (2017–2021), the national debt increased by approximately $7.8 Trillion. Nonpartisan budget groups estimate that the legislative changes and executive actions approved during that first term “added roughly $8.4 Trillion” to the 10-year borrowing, driven largely by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the COVID-19 pandemic relief packages.

Now some may argue that Biden added to the debt, yes his administration did a net $4.7 Trillion in new 10-year debt. Now how does that compare to tRump’s $8.4 Trillion?

Now during the first year of tRump’s second term, the federal government added approximately $2.25 trillion to the total national debt.

The total national debt crossed $39 trillion in March 2026. Nonpartisan budget groups and official government agencies track the fiscal impact of his second term through raw annual deficits and 10-year legislative projections.

Now that’s an accumulation of $10.65 Trillion that he alone has contributed to our national debt of $39 Trillion. That in simple math is he alone along with his loyalists have contributed one-third alone to our national debt. Looking at it another way for every three dollars in your hand he’s spent one of those dollars, and what is utterly amazing is all of us are suppose to have some feeling of loyalty to this grifter for ripping us all off. What’s sheer shocking is there are many that are submissive to this bullshit. Now keep in mind he’s got another two years to go and accumulated over $2.25 Trillion in those first two years to 2026. It’s only May we have seven more months to go til the end of 2026. How much do you think it will be come 2028? Think we all may have only a dollar left in our pockets if we are really lucky by then.

For some who have grown so “accustomed to the chaos” that they barely even react to it anymore. From deportations, unethical practices in concentration camps, all the violence and killing from DHS of our neighbors, to all the magnitude of his unending lies all the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, all of this. Put aside the morality factors, all the virtues that we should expect in profiles of courage from our leaders. Just look at the total grift of his families fortune because as of mid-2026, tracking organizations estimate that he and his family, and all his core businesses have generated “between $4 Billion and $5.1 Billion” in new proceeds, realized profits, and paper wealth since his 2024 re-election. This surge has elevated DonOld Trump’s individual personal net worth to an estimated $6.5 Billion.

So he and his family have gained the majority of their wealth in less than two years all the while he’s suppose to be the President of this country. Maybe sit back and contemplate that it’s always about the economy, your wallet, your financial well being, and what you’ve decided to leave behind by your “submission” to him and his loyalists. Because this is the legacy he leaves behind because you chose to be “submissive”… take a look at the younger members of your family if you can…

His loyalty has and will always be to himself..

Sky Blue's avatar

What DECADES of HISTORY have shown us ALL...

trump has NO LOYALTY to ANYONE ELSE EVER!!

VOTE 'EM ALL OUT!!!!

Paula Mutzel's avatar

Now Cornyn can join Massie and all the other”disloyalists” that he wanted gone and actually do the right thing…speak out against him and his hateful policies which they were afraid to do before…they have nothing to lose.

Be careful what you wish for Donny dump because it’s going to turn around and bite you in that big fat diapered a**…..can’t wait!!

Christina Stuart's avatar

In a strange way, this ‘wrecking ball’ of republican values could be far better news going forward into the Midterms then we might at the moment think. We all know how really ‘ill’ this man is, mentally as well as probably physically, but apparently there are still too many people for a variety of reasons, who are being happily blindly led by his hollow promises.

He is now building a thick wall of protection around himself by those he can count on for absolute subservience. This has nothing to do with loyalty alone, but a pure and blatant attempt to take over the government which he has worked on slowly by promising and buying up every weak wannabe from the SCOTUS on down through all sections of governmental control and last but not least, the billionaires hoping to enrich themselves with contracts to make them richer. All these people are paying into his private ‘slush fund’ and in return are given the keys to the kingdom to manipulate and secure his staying power.

It all shows a frightening loss of ethical and moral judgment by those we have elected to represent our issues, aims and goals. After all, we are the voters who elect these men and women. By promising allegiance to him, they are thumbing their noses at us, who elected them.

I think we needed this and yes the hurt it is causing all around the country and the world. Things sometimes have to get worse before they can change, not just for this one time but for every possible ‘bandwagon’ imitator in future. and we have to change things by instituting and enforcing the rules of law written on a piece of paper 250 years ago. Paper is patient, but we shouldn’t be any longer.

Charlotte Firth's avatar

Robert came up with the wonderful idea of black armbands on July the 4th. I also think you should all wear blue t-shirts.

The cover up regarding this man and the spineless republicans is overwhelming stand up and show you are willing and walk tall for change.

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Juxtaposition in Medicine's avatar

Primum non nocere... first, do no harm. That is the moral code of physicians. If only it applied to politics. Oh, and the doctors who care for him at Walter Reed Medical Center have either gone to the dark side, or they are being misrepresented or misquoted by the spin cycle. Sad.

Douglas Mackay's avatar

When his brain autopsy is completed and revealed, a new name for his dementia will be given. He may have no better legacy.

Richard Dorset's avatar

Remember this-the more outrageous and violent the memes, the increase in frequency of the calls of betrayal, the more money spent to defeat RINOs, the more desperate and ridiculous the declarations of “perfect health”, the greater the rot underneath the so called beautiful house, which will cause the entire foundation to implode. I’m glad Trump is spending so much time and money to defeat the likes of Cornyn and Massie. He is planting the seeds of his own demise. Not only will that Texas Senate seat be lost to the Dems but the Republican Senators who have been tossed from the bus, or have just found some semblance of conscience, have the power to make the life of the felon in chief a living hell between now and November, after which he will be flayed like “nobody has ever seen before “. It will be the greatest flaying in the history of the country