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Giovanni's avatar

Im observing the chaos of the US from overseas and one thing I can’t reconcile is that if Trump is as mentally incapable as you suggest in your many posts ( and as he increasingly appears) who is actually pulling the strings to coordinate these many actions to undermine the midterms and future elections. The response needed to get America back on track seems to go well beyond just removing Trump and hoping it naturally corrects from there

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

It’s probably Stephen Miller and the Project 2025 cabal, who planned all this even before tRump got reelected.🇬🇧

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

It is a group of evil doers.

Trump is a Russian groomed and planted useful idiot conman. He is definitely controlled by Stephen Miller, The Heritage Foundation, EPSTEIN Class, technofascists, Elon, Palantir’s Thiel, Putin, Netanyahu, and more. trump is nothing more than a Nazi, fascist, narcissistic, convicted felon and rapist, conman, sociopath whose Dementia is accelerating along with his physical decline.

These are extremely dangerous times. Our government is full of sycophantic and complicit members, the Administration, Congress especially RepubliKKKans and BeneDickt Fetterman, six corrupt SCOTUS, etc, and ICE Gestapo and their CONCENTRATION Camps to kidnap people of color, “Domestic Terrorists,” communists, anybody anti-MAGA/MAWA KKKult.

Time is NOT on our side.

They have zero intentions of leaving our White House.

SCH's avatar

It's simply terrifying.

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

It’s getting more dangerous by the minute unless we do something soon.

Bc's avatar

The problem is “we” are not doing NOTHING! WTH Congressional Democrats! WTH Supreme Court! Do Something!

Bc's avatar
Jul 11Edited

Trump is stupid enough to be their puppet. Well that and they are helping him fleece the country. They are all anarchists.

kathleen swedlund's avatar

Exactly. And it is probably his goon squad administration. Republicans want America to be like the Romans. Control the people. They should remember Rome only lasted 300 years. Unfortunately, 50 years is more than enough time to destroy the American dream. 🤯😭

Urban Hermit's avatar

First, Trump fails to realize that under the American Constitution and laws presidents don't get to rule from beyond the grave.

Second, Trump must corrupt the midterms to keep Republicans in control of the House and Senate to complete his authoritarian takeover and protect himself and his cronies. He has no moral limits and will do anything, legal or illegal, to achieve his goals. Expect the unexpected. Imagine the unimaginable.

There are two vectors Trump can use to corrupt the midterms. The first is voter suppression. This has received a lot of attention. It includes things like gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, banning mail-in ballots, reducing the number of early voting days, reducing polling places to make wait lines intolerably long etc. Many prominent election attorneys and public interest groups are fighting these in court and they receive a lot of press coverage.

But there is a second, more insidious method Trump may employ to corrupt the midterms. That is to manipulate the vote count. We use election software to scan ballots and tabulate votes. It can be written to flip votes in close votes in select races to favor the desired candidate. Few people other than those who write the code and computer security experts either understand or can detect its use. The only way to combat it is to either turn out in such overwhelming numbers to vote Democratic or to challenge improbable Republican wins by demanding recounts.

Election Truth Alliance and Smart Elections have been trying to expose the possibility that corrupt election software has been in play, but have received no attention from mainstream media and little attention elsewhere. Nor have any election authorities cooperated by investigating their election software or security protocols. Here us a compendium of election vulnerabilities Election Truth Alliance has compiled;

https://electiontruthalliance.substack.com/p/election-security-threats-and-vulnerabilities?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=18auiy

Third, NSPM-7 (Google it) is a presidential memo that identifies anyone who opposes Trump, a domestic terrorist. It gives the Trump regime the authority to arrest, detain and, yes, even deport or kill them. That was part of the point when Trump began referring to Democrats as Communists over the 4th of July and saying they were the greatest threat the country has ever faced. You are terrifyingly correct to point out that Trump's outsized DHS forces, excessive detention facilities and now government run deportation fleet of aircraft won't be used just on undocumented immigrants.

Carol Fletez's avatar

A presidential memo is not a law as you make it appear. Do you get off on frightening people even more? He will not be missed at all and as soon as he's gone just wait for the internecine power grabs. November can't come soon enough.

Urban Hermit's avatar

You're correct. Thanks for pointing out my poor choice of words. I should have written "direction" instead of "authority." Despite that, even a blatantly illegal presidential memo can cause immense damage until it is successfully challenged in court and works its way through the appeals process which can take years.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

That may be true, but his minions are already doing it - DOJ, Blanche, and Perino prosecuting protesters for calling themselves "antifa", ICE and CBP shooting, arresting and holding U.S. citizens without due process (ignoring their proof documents), etc.

Deva West's avatar

Elon has already said it requires changing the code. You know it's coming.

Michele Schaffer's avatar

Heather, I read your wonderful comments every day and am so glad that you are doing such a great job speaking the truth about our flawed president! You write my feelings so beautifully and I am so happy we have you to speak the truth. Very proud of you! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️

Paul's avatar
Jul 11Edited

Heather - your reporting is spot on, and you’re correct about it getting worse.

Shortly after midnight today (July 11) the NY TIMES reported that their journalists who reported on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had departed Turkey on the old Air Force One as a security precaution at the urging of the Secret Service were issued subpoenas to testify in a criminal trial.

Specifics were vague, the Times reported, about the circumstances of the pending criminal investigation, but objected strenuously to the harassment of investigative journalists whose work is protected under the First Amendment.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/business/media/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w1A.60FP.xNQTOKQO59m1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Paul, will it actually happen…just like ever other time they try to get the truth, it never surfaces either by lies, extortion, bribery, fear.

Since he is “being sequestered,” it makes me think…his paranoid Dementia, attention, and/or his time for his treatment, or D. ALL the above.

The bottom line is the extreme danger we are in and our Democrats are NOT united to stop this from unfolding. Most are too busy talking, writing letters, and thinking about what to do instead of DOING and being PROACTIVE instead of Reactive.

It will be up to “WE The PEOPLE.”

Lance Rosen article…https://substack.com/@lancefrosen/note/c-280591987?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Cathy 98280's avatar

I can scarcely tell we’re living in the GODDAMNED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Everything you tell us is so completely bonkers - what a nightmare! The only thing I can hope is that the a$$hole in the White House dies ASAP! After that, I think maybe we can start breathing again. 😞

Cathy 98280's avatar

(I know I’m not supposed to say anything like that.)

Stephen Wunderlich's avatar

I agree - he’s gotta go.🖕🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

TJ's avatar

Thank you Heather.

He ties affordable housing to restrictive voting legislation to Congress. Pressure and threaten to every State election officer on the upcoming 2026 election through the use of the DOJ. He fires and then eliminates the Election Assistance Commission that assists those State election officers to maintain a smooth safe and secure means in all who vote, due to the decision of SCOTUS. Now just not temporary barriers but installing permanent barriers per the Secret Service and Interior Department around the White House, the People’s House to no longer have easy access to our own government. His continuation of making the People’s House into a grotesque palace fit with ornate Corinthian columns that pair with this oversized golden ballroom with the aid of his appointee to the Commission of Fine Arts. This is only in one “Letter From an American” by Professor HCR.. as well as your writing Heather, about the death and unlawful shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and the Department of Homeland Security acquiring their own fleet of airplanes to massively “deport” not just what one would consider “illegals” but let’s just call it “all dissidents” of this ongoing regime to places unknown.

A nation loses its democracy not just when leaders are corrupt, but when citizens grow numb and tired even to the point of exhaustion. Our democracy collapses the moment people mistake just voting for participation — freedom requires engagement, not just a ballot but in the actions of its citizens. It demands vigilance, participation, and a willingness to participate daily in the fight to retain this democracy. Do we as citizens have the wherewithal to sustain the willingness to stand in protest day after day, week after week? Yes we’ve had the massive turnouts at No Kings rallies yet are we all prepared to do the same actions as the people in Albania?

Albania is still “actively protesting”, with the demonstrations entering their second consecutive month in July 2026 as part of what is widely known as the "Flamingo Revolution." What began as an environmental outcry against a $1.6 billion coastal resort project backed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has ballooned into the largest civic uprising the country has witnessed since the fall of communism in 1991. The movement continues to draw tens of thousands of participants who gather nightly in the capital city of Tirana. Demonstrators gather at 6 p.m. everyday in Skanderbeg Square. Rallies have reached over 35 consecutive days of sustained action through the July Fourth weekend.

Am aware of many that are out weekend after weekend standing in protest against this regime and some are even on a daily basis but the question is where are the masses of Americans that don’t want this democracy to perish? Our group is out every weekend, no matter the weather conditions, as others are around this nation. While our numbers may grow and dwindle over the weekends we are as tired and numb as all others, yet we are there. A number of us teach younger individuals to register to vote, to aid older members of our community to check to ensure they are still on the voter roll so they will not be denied their voices come November. Somedays life gets in the way but we continue on. How many Americans have expressed their displeasure to their own elected officials by calling, emailing or writing consistently? Ultimately, democracy survives not on paper or in institutions alone, it survives on the backs of the People. Democracy rests in all our hands and actions.

Democracy does not disappear all at once. It is weakened piece by piece, day by day through intimidation, secrecy, or just in the open as this Felon does, attacks on independent institutions, and efforts to make not just voting harder but everyday life. From affordability at the grocery store, or purchasing a home. To having to pay more for utilities for sustainable healthcare or even being aware that a parasite can make you become ill because the institution of the CDC has been dismantled by this regime.

We have to keep paying attention, speaking up, and protecting the right of every eligible American not just to vote and have that vote counted but live in a democracy daily.

“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in Germany. More often, though, democracies erode slowly, in barely visible steps. One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion. Would-be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters, and especially security threats—wars, armed insurgencies, or terrorist attacks—to justify antidemocratic measures.” ~ Steven Levisky (How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future)

Am grateful for so many who speak and write truth to power, all others and the people in this forum who stand united to fight for this imperfect democracy to protect the country, its people, and the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Hopefully we all find our groups to maintain the fight and do what we can to preserve this government. Yet there is fear that our government may be completely destroyed and there will no longer be trust in moving forward. But that’s what we all have to contend with, isn’t it…

History will remember who defended democracy—and who looked away. Stay safe and healthy, midterms are 115 days away, but use your voice today and the days forward…

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

TJ, what an excellent add to

Heather’s (both of them) writings.

It is literally piece by piece, the rewritten Project 2025 that has been in place for decades as the roadmap, along with the Nazi, fascist, eugenics playbook to take over our government, define the “enemy” and exterminate, expel, disappear them/us…people of color, “Domestic Terrorists,” poor, disabled, LGBTQ+, and now “Communists.”

We are now at the point in the poem, “…and then they came for me.”

Time is NOT on our side.

Thank you for you always insightful comments and all that you are doing.

We NEED to become more active.

UNITED WE STAND and DIVIDED WE FALL.❤️‍🩹

TJ, do you think you could please share this comment on Lance Rosen’s Facebook or Substack? I know your comments would be greatly appreciated there as well as here…whichever post you think is most applicable.

Your voice matters and is needed more than just here.

Thank you for considering it. I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t think it was necessary!

This is his latest on Facebook (not on Substack yet)…https://www.facebook.com/100001688856411/posts/pfbid0g1S21yvQXwNNkfjFgYomejPLMabLJHJxM9Q73iSzYaWrA52bysQM1TqYBLPzSDV2l/?

Substack…ICE Gestapo trainers…https://substack.com/@lancefrosen/note/c-290959835?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

TJ's avatar

Done now a paid subscriber to his substack and posted the comment on Substack…ICE Gestapo trainers…https://substack.com/@lancefrosen/note/c-290959835?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Called out your name in the post as to who directed towards his writings.

Today is a new day and will be out and about this afternoon in the rain with all the others using our voices.. Not a person who sees the world with rose colored glasses and unfortunately the gut says it may be getting worse but do believe and have hope that we all will have better days ahead..

It’s stunning that sometimes “You don’t know what you had till it’s gone” at this time when information is readily available as to what Hungary has gone through for years for the people of this nation… The old adage of “it will never happen here” needs to fall on more ears and voices..

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Wow…thank you!

I know he will be truly appreciative. He obviously isn’t in it for the money. And I don’t get anything.

I’m going to say what he keeps telling me…You, TJ, should be writing your own Substack and/or Facebook or wherever….well, I guess you kind of do, but a lot of people put stuff on Facebook to be seen and then put the entire pieces on Substack. I Fucking Love Australia had to start doing this after warnings to be shut down. The good thing about Substack is that you get email notifications.

I agree on all that you said and People are dismissive and also, “it’s not me, it’s them” attitude. Of course there are all those still under the MAGA/MAWA KKKult and Fox News propaganda spell.

He wants to stop this Nazi, fascist Regime.

I think I mentioned to you that he was active in organizations to warn about trump…the first time.

Thank you.

And please be safe…we are all communists and Domestic terrorists now.❤️‍🩹

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Hi TJ,

I hope your day was safe and impactful.

Thank you for sharing your writings.

It really matters! We have to keep sharing and doing whatever we can.

Stephen Wunderlich's avatar

God bless you Heather. You’re writing these every night/early morning is keeping my hope for democracy in America alive, still - despite all the nastiness that trump is bringing. Thank you.🙏 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏💙💙

Mary Ann Yaeger's avatar

And I repeat:

NOW will all our elected representation please do their jobs and put a legal end to this madness?????

Kenneth Kaufman's avatar

Today the earth reaches aphelion, our furthest distance from the sun. And I think how far we’ve moved from the most basic tenets of Christian belief. We no longer abide by “love thy neighbor” or “do unto others” or “blessed are the poor in spirit”. And I mourn the last ten years our relinquishing of any moral responsibility of the strong and the wealthy. We continue to maim the dove of peace with the bloody arrows of rapacious greed and heartless violence.

Still, the future is not written and we are the authors of our own fate.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." - Viktor Frankl

Leah D's avatar

Thank you for always leaving us with a hopeful message despite the ongoing horrors. It helps keep in perspective that we do not have to accept this and we can still work towards a better America, even if it is in small ways. Collectively they can all add up to the necessary change.

Cindy Sherrell's avatar

If we were to be able to de-throne 47 bc of the tampering with the 2024 election that has been proven then wouod all of his orders and all the things that Heather has mentioned be moot and be able to be reversed? If he is ousted and his reign ruled illegitimate would all these things hold????

John Goodman's avatar

Why would we believe Israel when they say they’ve uncovered a plot to kill Trump? They certainly have ulterior motives and, I believe, would do anything to get us to escalate their fight with Iran.

Brian Sinks's avatar

It’s time for a nationwide general strike, with protests at every county or city courthouse!

Jane's avatar

"The White House later admitted the switch was part of a strategy of “distraction and misdirection” to protect him."

How can this be when he told everyone about the switch? F'ing clown

Ame's avatar

I have a 3yr old and an 11 year old as granddaughters. I would very much like them to have a future that didn't include that moldy, rotting orange 🍊 that occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave currently. I cannot, for the life of me, comprehend that other people cover for him. He was an asshole in NYC in the 80s and they hate him. Why can't we just get rid of him?

Alan B McConigly's avatar

No one likes living with the constant threat of violence or death. Whether it be from a vicious dog or an abusive partner or parent. After threatening to annihilate the entire civilization of Iran, his assassination would only be justified. They won't only be dancing in the streets of Tehran.