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Judy Guenther's avatar

I don’t believe a word of his saying he donated a million of his own money to Johnson. He never gives anything. He just takes, no matter what it costs everyone else. He’s robbing our tax dollars and will leave this country in default. And he has exposed us all to great risk.

Katy Bolger's avatar

I think when he said "my money" he meant his campaign war chest which I believe has topped a billion dollars. Yes, the president has a campaign fund of over a billion dollars. For those hard of hearing...

Charlotte Firth's avatar

Can someone please explain why all these multi billionaires are so keen to scoop in more money and agree to nobble the real un fettered press so that all the news and money is supporting such an appallingly corrupt group of people who are running USA.

I don’t understand the counting the money in the counting house rather than wanting to live in a country that has happy cared for citizens who have food and medicines and a good life.

We are not talking about small change here, we are talking obscene unspendable money, corrupting a very small number of really greedy people in tech and media.

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

I know it’s rather rhetorical, but these people are barely human. They operate on money, power, control, manipulation, extortion, etc. They have no moral compass and lack empathy, humanity, ethics, values, morals, compassion.

They thrive on their elite status and money and power at any cost. Add to that, favors, extortion, money laundering and all the pieces to get to MAWA. It is a sick, vile, heinous, sadistic group of narcissists who are BLOOD Money hungry elites wanting to exterminate those of color, LGBTQIA, “other,” “Domestic terrorists” at all and any costs.

Many of these criminals are tied to the Epstein files…pedophiles, rapists, sex traffickers, murderers, Eugenics, etc.

Republicans and Fetterman have the power to stop ALL of this.

But they proved who they are on Jan.6…And he we are,an Orwellian, Dystopian, fascist, Authoritarian,Imperialistic, Dictatorship…”1984” meets Project 2025-26 on AI and steroids.

trump=hitler

Katy Bolger's avatar

Right on, Rochelle. You summed it up. It's the Epstein class, whether in the files or protecting those who are. It is money, always money, money, money. And fear. The center cannot hold if the center is rotten and boy is this group of people rotten. Cloaking themselves in the pages of the Bible. That Mike Johnson is putting his down payment on his lair in hell. We will endure and they will sail their yachts off to who the f cares.

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Katy…hell yeah, but I prefer a Nuremberg 2.0!

We can only hope. But in the meantime, we have to hope that he/they are NOT going to start WWlll.

Yes…It is ALWAYS FOLLOW THE BLOOD MONEY.🩸💰

Katy Bolger's avatar

The thing is, there is only a finite amount of money so while they scoop it up, we the middle class and the underclass, are losing what little we had. They take and take and take and have for 50 years until we have nothing and are grateful for the crumbs thrown to us.

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Katy, he/they have drained our country of money and into their own filthy pockets and to the decimation of other countries, their people, and our people.

Inhumane Concentration Rape, Death, Sex trafficking camps run by the ICE Gestapo, are shell companies of wealthy sadistic white “Christian” nationalists, who get paid per head. The police and local authorities and judges are bought and sold. So the more they kidnap and disappear, the more money these scumbags get.

It is vile and heinous and unconscionable that this has been occurring logistically for over a year. It is an extremely dire situation, along with the Executions of Goode, Pretti, and others that the Democrats could and SHOULD be doing something and not just continually just talking.

Katy Bolger's avatar

You are talking the truth. We who have been coddled by our skin color and perhaps a good job and family have ignored this malignant growth in our country thinking we were protected by the bubble we lived in. But boy are we paying for our comfort and crumbs. My students (NYC HS teacher for 25 years) told me over and over again about their lives, their experiences, as best they could articulate to this white lady who constantly said: but we have improved, we have gotten better, things are not as bad. And they rolled their eyes and said, you know nothing. Well, apparently they were right. While I hoped that the white supremacists would stay in their encampments, that militias would remain weekend warriors in the woods and the Christian Nationalists would stay in Texas, they were all coalescing under the GOP tent to gain power. Bam! Pow! Kaboom! Twump is their vessel and the government is now crawling with all of them, all of them. I hope we get the chance to rid the federal buildings and the state capitals of this is ilk. This stinking basket of deplorables.

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Well, the history books are all white-washed, and unless you take psychology and sociology, etc.(I’m a psychology major and almost sociology) and also was a special educator. I grew up part of my time in Miami and now I’m I was born and came back to New England in an extremely white state. I was well aware of some of the differences and injustices to minorities. Our state has a long history of KKK groups.

trump gave permission for all these deplorables to say and do whatever they want with immunity and a pardon. No more hiding under rocks.

We CANNOT let them wear us down with all the chaos and propaganda (“1984”) and crimes against us ALL that are on the right side of history. We DEFINITELY cannot give into violence. Those are the things he/they want to ignite a Civil War and declare Marshall law. We know he with Elon, Putin’s, Thiel, and others rigged and stole the last election and they will do and are doing whatever they can to stop or steal the next elections.

He is an illegitimate president-essentially he and his family are nothing but criminal squatters in our White House, along with his KKKabinet and KKKronies are bleeding our country dry for their own wealth.

Epstein Files

FOLLOW THE BLOOD MONEY.

I highly recommend, Heather Cox Richardson(a perfect complement to Heather Delaney Reese), Lance Rosen, Aaron Parnas, Eyes on ICE on Eyes on ICE(Substack), and some others to help fill in some gaps.

UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL💖

Katy Bolger's avatar

Best headline:

CRIMINAL SQUATTERS IN WHITE HOUSE

You are talking my language. Thanks for the recommendations. For you: Mary Geddry

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Thanks!! You’re welcome!

I do read Mary Geddry, too. There are so many!

If you want another interesting take, “I fucking love Australia”!🙂

Charlotte Firth's avatar

Lovely to see these posts as a follow on from mine from UK.

Know the big NO KINGS march is tomorrow.

Please please all take part but also please please take care. I think ice will be present to try and stir up trouble. Stay in groups of people and make your voices heard xx

Jami Craig's avatar

I’ll tell you what really makes me angry. If Chuck Schumer would sound more like Mr. Krasner, it would actually feel like Democrats are fighting back. But when you see Chuck Schumer standing on the floor of the Senate and reading what is supposed to be outrage and passion for the grievances committed by this administration, with absolutely no outrage and passion, it doesn’t just feel like defeat has already taken hold, it is sickening. If every Democrat sounded like Krasner, what a resistance we would have.

Katy Bolger's avatar

Schumer lost the fire in his belly long ago. He is an old man and has got to go. I wish AOC would challenge him. She is waiting in the wings but she may wait too long. Women are always told to wait their turn when we should push to the front.

Jami Craig's avatar

That last sentence. It needs to be on a T-shirt. ✌️

Andrea Brecker's avatar

Remarkable coverage of news we need to know, as disturbing as it is to take in. For those who provide an audience to his shameful display, and pay significantly for this dishonor, what is broken in them that got them to this place.

I am a host for a No Kings event on Saturday. I hope across the US, and beyond, participation is greater than can be imagined.

Mary Ann Yaeger's avatar

Thank you, District Attorney Krasner!! Someone had to be the first and it was especially brilliant to point out that the President cannot pardon state offenses.

This is my first day with this substack. I hesitated, due to concerns of being overwhelmed by the craziness of the state of our union, but saw that this Heather has her own unique position in the mix of information. Appreciate that.

Richard G Watkins's avatar

Hello from UK. Your future, our future, succinctly put from your diary , after another terrifying performance; CONSCIOUS RESISTANCE VERSUS TRUMP’S ENABLERS

You have laid out America’s challenge . I pray that you rise to it as the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.

Katy Bolger's avatar

Hello from hell aka America.

Fromtheheartland's avatar

All I can say to you Heather, is thank you. Your work is appreciated by me every morning with my first cup of coffee.

Oddwood's avatar

Wonderful reporting, Heather! My wish is that A Murder of Crows finds his new shiny object and drops it on his head.

Lolly Schenck's avatar

Thank you dear Heather Delaney Reese. Thank you for sitting through every obscene moment he speaks (and the sycophantic toads around him), and synthesizing it so that I don’t have to. You bring all the receipts, but one minute of the Squeaker of the House (pax Jimmy Kimmel!) and Dumpo on CSpan was more than I could stomach. You are doing us such a service. Bless you and thanks!

Katy Bolger's avatar

You are right but what a burden we place on the few. That is why when they call us to action we go. No fn kings!

ronald haring's avatar

i wonder who gave him the idea of not calling it a war, could it be his buddy in russia? but that would imply that trump actually remembers things and can reason....

Maureen Staley Cary's avatar

I had no idea just how many psychopaths there are in this world.

Kenneth Kaufman's avatar

The fuse is burning, Hear it in the cackles of the self righteous, the entitled, the shortsighted. Rome burns and towers fall. Have courage. Still, like air, we rise.

Katy Bolger's avatar

Nice, Kenneth. Use the words of those who truly understand oppression, from slavery to modern times, pushed to the ground, still, we rise.

Barnsey44's avatar

He didn’t have to give Johnson $1million to own him. He already owns him. Things they fear most are the attacks from Trump, the dismissals, and the disappearance. Nothing worse for them than losing their position, so much so that they will avoid any ethics or morals to keep it.

Katy Bolger's avatar

Mike Johnson is getting payback for some truly awful things that happened to him as a child like he got pushed out of line in second grade by a girl, or a black boy, or a tall girl.

Jack Carter's avatar

One flew over a cuckoo's nest... with such a zany nutty convict ridiculous snd deeply corrupt creature everything is possible. Amen

Paula Mutzel's avatar

The emperor and his clothes…we’re living that old one now..watching it unfold every day. We’ve seen the history of how it has ended for those like him in the past and it will end for him as well. The biggest questions are of course “how “and “when”. The “how” is up to us…democratically by a massive outpouring of our voices both in protest and then in our votes in November…removing all of his enablers from their positions of power…replacing them with those who still believe in the Constitution and the rule of law not in fealty to him. Then the restoration can begin…we can undo most of the harm he has done fairly quickly once we stop him ..tie his tiny bruised hands..the rest will take more time but it’s not impossible.

The “when” is a little more difficult to answer…obviously as long as he holds all the branches of government nothing will happen but ..looking at him…listening to him..observing him as a medical professional would ..it is highly possible ..maybe even probable ..that we won’t have to wait until November for the “when”…it may happen sooner than we think . Hold that thought..pray for it..have faith that his evil will not be allowed to continue…..karma.

Samuel McKerall's avatar

Astute, thoughtful, well-reasoned, valuable, timely, important.

Like always.

Why I'm here.

Thank you. Don't stop.