At 3:05 this afternoon, the White House press corps was quickly ushered into the Oval Office, where the President of the United States was already seated at his desk with toy airplanes and helicopters carefully placed around him. With more than a dozen men and women in dark suits packed in behind him, Donald Trump spoke for exactly 14 minutes before inviting others to address the press. Within seconds of finishing his remarks, the President had already started to fall asleep. He struggled to keep his eyes open nearly the entire time, occasionally snapping them back open, only to close them once again. Near the end of the event, Trump fully woke up just in time to answer questions, including one people around the world wanted answered, especially after an AI-generated video he posted the night before appeared to show mass-destruction weapons being used against Iran.
A reporter asked the President, “Have you ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran?”
“Well, I would never say that, but, uh, the answer is yes,” Trump snapped back. “What a stupid question that is, actually.”
And thank you for pointing out the similarities in Collins and Roberts, their habit of checking the weather before voting, and not in the interest of constituents. Hoping to vote Collins out this year.
Our state already made a mistake with Platner(many of us reluctantly chose him.)
We have a White supremacist, Bobby Charles who claims he’s friends with Homan and want ICE Gestapo at our polling stations..in plain close and flash their badges to intimidate. Such POS.
"Dr" Oz is not interested in anything but his own disgusting self. Certainly not the health of anyone in America. He's so typical of Trump's team. Generally ignorant, insulated, and removed from anything resembling daily life. Unable to relate at all. I'm sure he doesn't do "grocery shopping" in any real sense or worry about paying for anything. So sure. Let's bust ass and squeeze out another year so that rich men get richer. Hmm.
November will be important, but we must keep in mind that we can never ensure the success of this great American experiment in one election or even one lifetime. The founders who launched this "experiment" in 1776 knew each generation would need to fight anew to keep democracy alive and vital.
Thank you, Ms. Reese, for your role in leading us in this crucial round of the battle. Together we are fighting the same fight that Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt fought against the enemies of democracy, the enemies of self-rule. We fight Trump and MAGA because we believe in the idea of America -- "with liberty and justice for all."
Wrote the following on Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American.
We are watching the commander-in-chief fabricate bombings and victories with AI-generated videos. Comparing himself to George Washington, Eisenhower and Patton. A person who has medals of his past glory pinned to his chest in uniform that never served a day in his real life. He’s in another reality show of pure fabrication like the Apprentice.
A Secretary of Defense that fantasizes as if war is a video game and all players are either “warfighters or warriors” and all those NPC’s that he is sitting in a recliner, using a remote, having a headset on and vocalizing “pew-pew” and “Brrrr simulating the firing of weapons.
The Army Secretary who at least served who resigns. Who knows that what the actual military needs is leadership and is telling not just the commander-in-chief but the most incompetent Secretary of Defense that the war these two insist on continuing is breaking the force. That it’s not sustainable.
We and our military who are sacrificing and serving are sitting in the gap between these two, the fantasy and reality.
When even the people who are suppose to carry out the orders may no longer be able to do so. The rupture occurs.. what is left will not be a fantasy…
The Military has already issued Extensions of Deployment for our troops in Iran.
*******
This is applied to everything this regime does. A fantasy versus the reality. The fantasy of lower prescription drugs until we all go to the pharmacy and now pay more. Which personally am experiencing. What the cost was under the Biden Administration am almost paying double now, along with others.
Fantasy that gas costs “pick a number out of the air” but reality comes knocking, and then we are told to “suck it up” which didn’t go over to well. Then “poof” we are going to get Venezuela oil. Which Venezuela doesn’t even have the infrastructure to provide this oil. Even oil companies affirm this, and the oil is not exactly the grade that is needed. It’s basically sludge in comparison to “black gold, Texas tea” (ask your grandparents about Jed Clampett).
The fantasy is that this regime, this Republican Congress is giving us all “something” - Giving us no “men in women’s sports”, “best economy ever”, “Iran is decimated, they have no weapons”, “We own the Strait of Hormuz and ships are moving at 100%”, etc….
Even just today Trump writes in a Truth Social post. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor”
The reality is when is that Data Center going to be built right next door to Mar-a-Lago.. Think he’s hankering to be backwards and poor?!?
Look at what every Republican Senator who voted Yes an each and everyone of his selections for this regime that are doing to our realities…
We don’t even know if Mitch McConnell is alive or dead but his staff says he’s alive, but we can’t see him face to face or on television or hear from him. At this point he may be an AI-generated version..
That the Chief Justice writes about that ballroom - “That construction is likely unlawful.” so if unlawful ... Shouldn’t be allowed to be built but nope reality comes in with the loyalists to give him what he always wants. Including even immunity.. which is totally against the Constitution.
Damn we can’t even purchase safe food out of a grocery store without a bacteria, that gives us explosive diarrhea. Glass in popsicles, or there’s a parasite in the food. Let alone we have no idea where tons of this mystery meat is coming from and what exactly is this mystery meat..
It’s all fantasy until the reality hits us. That this regime denied the asylum claim and ordered the deportation of a 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family. The boy from the Minneapolis area wearing a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack.. That’s our Reality
The reality is there are 63 days until Midterms, November 3rd. The reality is this will feel longer than this amount of days.
Vote and clean house with a blue wave - both chambers of Congress .. Make that their Reality…
All of what Heather writes is true…all of it IS the reality.
HE is the liar..the snake oil salesman..the carnival barker deceiving the front row Joes…he and his henchmen like Oz whose parents left Turkey for a better life in America.
We can sift through their bullshit because we are actually living the reality while they throw all the shiny destructive..dangerous distractions at us ..we can still see through it.
Our job is to stay focused..hound the press to do their job…hunker down as the late Ben Bradlee said and BRING THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH.
We need another Mike Wallace..Carl Bernstein..Bob Woodward..Walter Cronkite..Dan Rather..Murrow..investigative journalists that pushed and prodded and did not accept the bullshit..they demanded the answers that exposed the lies.
Unfortunately we don’t have much of that today..the bosses upstairs in big media are scared of billion dollar lawsuits if they poke this bear so they skirt and squirm and pussyfoot around him.
Same with the Supreme Court, the House and the Senate.
We’re basically on our own but that’s ok…we’ve done it before..we beat him after his failure the first time..we will diffuse him in November..we have to or there is no going back.
It won’t be over after the 3rd but it will be a start for the reset that will save our Republic.
I always wonder why the dems were not aware of what the repubs were building or working towards.
When I read current writing by just ordinary people, reporters, who are investigating and working on writing the truth of what they see going on.
Why weren’t the elected officials, dems, not aware of the trend the repubs were setting in the work of trying to steal everything right from under us.
I see how they’re talking a big game, of how fired up they seem to be. Of how they’re going to save us and stand up for us if we just give them money and vote for them. But talk is just talk. How could they allow the repubs to get a foothold in cracking the door open to towards authoritarianism.
My biggest clue is how Mitch McConnell was allowed to block Obamas nominations to the doj. I questioned then why that was allowed?
I’m sure there are other tricks the repubs pulled to twist progress. I as a common man not particularly watchful of politics didn’t catch all the tricks.
But the professional dems should have. That is their job. How the hell did they not do their jobs of being watchful if they knew the repubs were as tricky and deceitful as they have revealed themselves to be.
And why the hell do they want our money and votes again if they’re not doing their jobs?
Unless if it is true that they are two sides of the same coin. I guess if Trump keeps winning, they will be two sides of the same trump coin.
Another favorite Nazi slogan was arbeit macht frei, or work makes one free. Not unlike the Japanese prison camp commandant advising the prisoners who were about to start building the bridge over the river Kwai to "be happy in your work." The past is indeed prologue.
Hi Heather - I have been reading lately that actually the Trump administration lied about the ballroom being 65% completed. When they have added up all of the invoices and weighted that against the actual completion cost they came up with a figure of about 24% completed. I am more apt to believe the lower figure.
"Funny how our brains can attach even the most beautiful seasons to painful memories."
Stumbling Toward Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist who studies the nature of happiness, makes the overall point that our brains are very, very strange,and not particularly rational, especially in regard to how we remember events-- happily or sadly. I highly recommend reading it.
The blueprint was there before he was elected . Project 2025 is nearing completion . Read the chapters that relate to food , women, education and count how many times you read ;to promote “conservative values “. It was there in black and white and that WAS his platform despite the denials . We may be doomed by midterms as they enact this platform daily at lightening speed 😔
But we can’t give up…not doomed or defeated, but probably a Civil War, a Second Revolution..We still NEED to VOTE Blue, but be ready for anything and EVERYTHING.
And thank you for pointing out the similarities in Collins and Roberts, their habit of checking the weather before voting, and not in the interest of constituents. Hoping to vote Collins out this year.
Suel, Absolutely!! We NEED to VOTE Susan “Concerned” Collins OUT…this pissed off Mainer was only fooled once, long ago.
We NEED to make sure people VOTE BLUE…Troy Jackson.
Same. I hope Mainers are fed up with her.
People Really NEED to get out and VOTE.
Our state already made a mistake with Platner(many of us reluctantly chose him.)
We have a White supremacist, Bobby Charles who claims he’s friends with Homan and want ICE Gestapo at our polling stations..in plain close and flash their badges to intimidate. Such POS.
Shelley you are right. VOTE. It's the most important thing to do. In huge numbers. I don't see a lot of apathy around so that's a good sign.
I hope you’re right!
It’s hard to truly tell around here, but in Maine it is crucial we VOTE Susan Collins OUT…she is a traitor to Maine and to the U.S.A.
"Dr" Oz is not interested in anything but his own disgusting self. Certainly not the health of anyone in America. He's so typical of Trump's team. Generally ignorant, insulated, and removed from anything resembling daily life. Unable to relate at all. I'm sure he doesn't do "grocery shopping" in any real sense or worry about paying for anything. So sure. Let's bust ass and squeeze out another year so that rich men get richer. Hmm.
His medical license should be revoked…”Dr.” Wizard of Oz.
The comments by Dr Oz are troubling.
I can imagine a slave owner in 1850 saying pretty much the same thing
November will be important, but we must keep in mind that we can never ensure the success of this great American experiment in one election or even one lifetime. The founders who launched this "experiment" in 1776 knew each generation would need to fight anew to keep democracy alive and vital.
Thank you, Ms. Reese, for your role in leading us in this crucial round of the battle. Together we are fighting the same fight that Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt fought against the enemies of democracy, the enemies of self-rule. We fight Trump and MAGA because we believe in the idea of America -- "with liberty and justice for all."
Mmm, yes. The overall point that Trumpism has exposed is the fragility of democracy. Frightening.
Thank you Heather.
Wrote the following on Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American.
We are watching the commander-in-chief fabricate bombings and victories with AI-generated videos. Comparing himself to George Washington, Eisenhower and Patton. A person who has medals of his past glory pinned to his chest in uniform that never served a day in his real life. He’s in another reality show of pure fabrication like the Apprentice.
A Secretary of Defense that fantasizes as if war is a video game and all players are either “warfighters or warriors” and all those NPC’s that he is sitting in a recliner, using a remote, having a headset on and vocalizing “pew-pew” and “Brrrr simulating the firing of weapons.
The Army Secretary who at least served who resigns. Who knows that what the actual military needs is leadership and is telling not just the commander-in-chief but the most incompetent Secretary of Defense that the war these two insist on continuing is breaking the force. That it’s not sustainable.
We and our military who are sacrificing and serving are sitting in the gap between these two, the fantasy and reality.
When even the people who are suppose to carry out the orders may no longer be able to do so. The rupture occurs.. what is left will not be a fantasy…
The Military has already issued Extensions of Deployment for our troops in Iran.
*******
This is applied to everything this regime does. A fantasy versus the reality. The fantasy of lower prescription drugs until we all go to the pharmacy and now pay more. Which personally am experiencing. What the cost was under the Biden Administration am almost paying double now, along with others.
Fantasy that gas costs “pick a number out of the air” but reality comes knocking, and then we are told to “suck it up” which didn’t go over to well. Then “poof” we are going to get Venezuela oil. Which Venezuela doesn’t even have the infrastructure to provide this oil. Even oil companies affirm this, and the oil is not exactly the grade that is needed. It’s basically sludge in comparison to “black gold, Texas tea” (ask your grandparents about Jed Clampett).
The fantasy is that this regime, this Republican Congress is giving us all “something” - Giving us no “men in women’s sports”, “best economy ever”, “Iran is decimated, they have no weapons”, “We own the Strait of Hormuz and ships are moving at 100%”, etc….
Even just today Trump writes in a Truth Social post. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor”
The reality is when is that Data Center going to be built right next door to Mar-a-Lago.. Think he’s hankering to be backwards and poor?!?
Look at what every Republican Senator who voted Yes an each and everyone of his selections for this regime that are doing to our realities…
We don’t even know if Mitch McConnell is alive or dead but his staff says he’s alive, but we can’t see him face to face or on television or hear from him. At this point he may be an AI-generated version..
That the Chief Justice writes about that ballroom - “That construction is likely unlawful.” so if unlawful ... Shouldn’t be allowed to be built but nope reality comes in with the loyalists to give him what he always wants. Including even immunity.. which is totally against the Constitution.
Damn we can’t even purchase safe food out of a grocery store without a bacteria, that gives us explosive diarrhea. Glass in popsicles, or there’s a parasite in the food. Let alone we have no idea where tons of this mystery meat is coming from and what exactly is this mystery meat..
It’s all fantasy until the reality hits us. That this regime denied the asylum claim and ordered the deportation of a 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family. The boy from the Minneapolis area wearing a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack.. That’s our Reality
The reality is there are 63 days until Midterms, November 3rd. The reality is this will feel longer than this amount of days.
Vote and clean house with a blue wave - both chambers of Congress .. Make that their Reality…
Agree 1000%!
The Evil Ones want us healthy and working while they make us sicker and sicker. Did I understand correctly?
Eugenics! Nazi fascist playbook and Project 2025…100%.
Lance Rosen wrote…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/who-thought-it-was-a-stretch-to-say?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
As horrific as the content is, this is an excellent article, Heather.
All of what Heather writes is true…all of it IS the reality.
HE is the liar..the snake oil salesman..the carnival barker deceiving the front row Joes…he and his henchmen like Oz whose parents left Turkey for a better life in America.
We can sift through their bullshit because we are actually living the reality while they throw all the shiny destructive..dangerous distractions at us ..we can still see through it.
Our job is to stay focused..hound the press to do their job…hunker down as the late Ben Bradlee said and BRING THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH.
We need another Mike Wallace..Carl Bernstein..Bob Woodward..Walter Cronkite..Dan Rather..Murrow..investigative journalists that pushed and prodded and did not accept the bullshit..they demanded the answers that exposed the lies.
Unfortunately we don’t have much of that today..the bosses upstairs in big media are scared of billion dollar lawsuits if they poke this bear so they skirt and squirm and pussyfoot around him.
Same with the Supreme Court, the House and the Senate.
We’re basically on our own but that’s ok…we’ve done it before..we beat him after his failure the first time..we will diffuse him in November..we have to or there is no going back.
It won’t be over after the 3rd but it will be a start for the reset that will save our Republic.
VOTE.
I always wonder why the dems were not aware of what the repubs were building or working towards.
When I read current writing by just ordinary people, reporters, who are investigating and working on writing the truth of what they see going on.
Why weren’t the elected officials, dems, not aware of the trend the repubs were setting in the work of trying to steal everything right from under us.
I see how they’re talking a big game, of how fired up they seem to be. Of how they’re going to save us and stand up for us if we just give them money and vote for them. But talk is just talk. How could they allow the repubs to get a foothold in cracking the door open to towards authoritarianism.
My biggest clue is how Mitch McConnell was allowed to block Obamas nominations to the doj. I questioned then why that was allowed?
I’m sure there are other tricks the repubs pulled to twist progress. I as a common man not particularly watchful of politics didn’t catch all the tricks.
But the professional dems should have. That is their job. How the hell did they not do their jobs of being watchful if they knew the repubs were as tricky and deceitful as they have revealed themselves to be.
And why the hell do they want our money and votes again if they’re not doing their jobs?
Unless if it is true that they are two sides of the same coin. I guess if Trump keeps winning, they will be two sides of the same trump coin.
The votes weren't there on the Democratic side to stop McConnell. Simple.
Like minded. I think this myself Every.Single.Day.
Another favorite Nazi slogan was arbeit macht frei, or work makes one free. Not unlike the Japanese prison camp commandant advising the prisoners who were about to start building the bridge over the river Kwai to "be happy in your work." The past is indeed prologue.
Yes, that was posted throughout the Nazi death camps. I suppose death is the ultimate freedom.
Hi Heather - I have been reading lately that actually the Trump administration lied about the ballroom being 65% completed. When they have added up all of the invoices and weighted that against the actual completion cost they came up with a figure of about 24% completed. I am more apt to believe the lower figure.
"Funny how our brains can attach even the most beautiful seasons to painful memories."
Stumbling Toward Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist who studies the nature of happiness, makes the overall point that our brains are very, very strange,and not particularly rational, especially in regard to how we remember events-- happily or sadly. I highly recommend reading it.
The blueprint was there before he was elected . Project 2025 is nearing completion . Read the chapters that relate to food , women, education and count how many times you read ;to promote “conservative values “. It was there in black and white and that WAS his platform despite the denials . We may be doomed by midterms as they enact this platform daily at lightening speed 😔
Definitely Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, Eugenics, Nazi fascist playbook.
You’ll appreciate this article from Lance Rosen…Project 2025-Eugenics..
https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/who-thought-it-was-a-stretch-to-say?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
But we can’t give up…not doomed or defeated, but probably a Civil War, a Second Revolution..We still NEED to VOTE Blue, but be ready for anything and EVERYTHING.
This article as well…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/what-will-trump-do-to-steal-the-midterms?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
Thank you Heather…they are literally practicing Eugenics, the Nazi fascist playbook, Project 2025, and the Big Ugly Bill.
We Have to VOTE Blue like our lives depend on it…Because our lives depend on it.
We NEED to be ready for anything and EVERYTHING they are throwing at us, but don’t fall into their traps.
We have a rough road ahead.
Here’s article by Lance on Hitler’s-Eugenics…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/who-thought-it-was-a-stretch-to-say?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
Hitler’s playbook…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/from-beginning-to-end-this-regime?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
They might as well be cracking our backs with the whip now. The slaves will be able work an extra year to feed the greed of their owners.
Heather, it’s the beginning of Autumn; it’s not Fall until the leaves fall, in late Autumn. All else perfect. “Sleepy Don”?