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Carolyn Clark's avatar

Heather I just want to tell you that I read every single one of your daily updates. I even restack some. I am a 63 year old woman in the uk who has never previously been interested in American politics. Your work is so important and I want you to know that I am in awe of what you manage to achieve daily. I also want you to know that I am truly sorry for what Americans are going through at this time. Of course, the actions of Trump and his enablers are affecting the UK (and the rest of the world). This is plain to see in our prices. Every person is affected.

I can not plan a visit to the States because I believe I would be refused entry due to my social media posts and shares. I was in India in March and there were many restaurants closed because they could not buy the bottled gas to cook, so I have no idea how those business owners and staff were surviving and paying their bills. The actions of this band of unethical sociopaths are being felt worldwide.

You have my deepest sympathy and admiration Heather. Thank you for shining a light on these atrocities 🙏

Diana's avatar

Thank you Carolyn- I totally agree with you on how Heathers writing has helped during this crazy nightmare. Read her post everyday and pass it on.

It’s been happening since 2016 this nightmare- when you think it can’t get worse- yup it does. I thought on Jan. 6 when the Capitol was invaded by his followers and people died and were injured- it might be over and he would he held accountable- nope wrong again! It’s unbelievable! It’s a nightmare!

I don’t know how long this will last- hopefully in Novembers midterm elections the people will go to the polls and vote. Then we can start getting our Country back and reassure our Allies that we are back.

Thanks for listening- I’ve managed to type all this without a swear word- it is possible to talk about this 🤭nightmare without having many F words- who woulda thought??

Carolyn Clark's avatar

My thoughts are with you. In my humble view it boils down to 2 main drivers: the insanely narcissistic psychopath at the helm; and the bunch of enabling money-and-power hungry sychophants he surrounds himself with. Of course it's far more complicated than that, and I haven't studied fascism enough to make a more intelligent observation. But, please understand that we know that this sickness of MAGA has not infected the majority of you. With love x

PAUL WISKEN's avatar

Hear, hear. From a 72 year old British man.

Lenni Nyberg's avatar

It will take generations to repair the damage these criminals have done to our country. I worry for my daughter’s family. I’ll be gone but I’m afraid of what they might have to endure with this twisted regime.

Joseph Jacobs's avatar

That photograph of the sycophants surrounding their Fearless Leader... you can almost hear one of his advisors say, "Those of you with dentures might want to take 'em out. He's gonna want a real soft one when this shit gets posted."

You can imagine just how much dumber than a post Trump is... and then he tops himself in the Stupidity Department. His comment on Inflation truly does reveal him for the cruel, heartless bastard he is happy to be. "Ignorance is bliss", they say, so you can imagine Trump's level of happiness. This is his idea of "Winning".

Diana's avatar

Crazy isn’t it Joseph??

Joseph Jacobs's avatar

I'm 73, Diana. When Kennedy was assassinated and the Vietnam War was just getting started and Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway with his wife and kids inside the house... in my early teens, I was baptized as a News Junkie. In all my years of paying attention, I've never seen another heartless bastard the equal of Donald Trump.

I live in a constant state of anxiety for fear of who he's hurting or what he's changing for the worse that I don't know about or am not aware of.

Trump is the stooge. He can easily manipulated because of his ego and his narcissism. I would not be surprised to find out that the Russians are "The Man Behind the Curtain".

"Crazy" doesn't begin to cover it.

If you don't already subscribe to "I Fucking Love Australia". You should sign up. Free or Paid subscription, you get it all. The authors there write with what I am feeling. Their manner of expression is one of biting satire and sarcasm. It has a fair amount of profanity to it... and they're proud of it. To them, the situation is so bad, it demands it. I agree.

Keep reading, Diana. Knowledge is power.

P.S. Beautiful cat you have there. The brightness in the eyes and the condition of the fur tell me that somebody is taking very good care of that little animal spirit. Nice markings, too.

Diana's avatar

Thank you for your reply- it went right to my heart. Liking my Charlie doesn’t hurt either- was looking for a pic of Ruby our gray tabby ( SPCA- away from other cats) she’s the boss! When they’re near each other for any length of time we take a picture- because it’s rare without hissing and tufts of hair flying.

Back to keeping abreast of the news and trying to sift thru the lies. We’ve stopped watching TV news and get our news online. We pass it along to others across the country- otherwise than that we are homebodies- puttering on our postage stamp front and back yards and read- since retirement we’ve been cooking together so that’s great- should of done that years ago- it was always I cooked - he cleaned! He still loads the dishwasher- while I do the inside cats and our “ diner” outside on the porch for our homeless cats ( possums and a few skunks) - good for the heart and they keep the bugs down as well!

I will definitely look up the Australians- I love their sense of humor and their accents!

Well it’s a hot one in New York- hope it’s cool where u are🌻

Take care Joseph

Diana

Ana Hudson's avatar

Donald 💩miserable 💩trump is a total parasite who lives by eating others and he is an idiot too thinking that everybody loves him. He is mentally ill. I am waiting for him to wake up from his hallucinations. What a joke!

Joseph Jacobs's avatar

Trump is not right mentally, Ana. If you're waiting for him to wake up from his hallucinations, you may be waiting a very long time. Meanwhile, the Republicans are allowing a lunatic to be in charge of the Nuclear Codes.

Janet Currie's avatar

How can the sycophants surrounding the orange Hitler when he said that he loves inflation keep straight faces? Every day Trump shows how dumb he is. It's so embarrassing to listen to him; he doesn't seem to realise just how stupid he actually is. I just wish him a very unhappy birthday on Sunday.

Diana's avatar

I hope it rains and rains and rains… oh and windy too‼️

Madeline Boskey, PhD's avatar

Maybe some lightning, too ...!

Jacobs-Meadway Roberta's avatar

How? These greedy momzerim are making fortunes, doing very little work, and enjoying the perks of power. Neither they nor the Orange offal they protect and empower give a rat’s rear about the people who voted for Trump or Thune or Johnson or anyone else unable to make large donations or influence the base of the base.

George McCully's avatar

Covering insanity journalistically is extremely complex and difficult—what weight should be given to his words?

Our problem is that a stupid and ignorant man occupying the highest office in our land is a raving narcissistic lunatic, talking to himself about what he fantasizes is true, from inside the bubble of his insanity. Owing to his office he is closely surrounded by a coterie of self-seeking but incompetent opportunists, currying his bountiful favor by implementing wherever possible his crazy and often destructive and effectually cruel wishes, creating national and global crises.

I believe our focus should be not on what he says but on what is done in his name by the sycophants—the points at which his fantasies are translated into reality, naming names and building the historic record for future prosecutions.

TJ's avatar

Thank you Heather for all you do.

So for the slow MAGA’s in the back of the room who just love everything he says and does. Since the annual rate of inflation went from 3.8% to 4.2% in just a month and he just “loves inflation” that higher inflation means your money “buys fewer goods and services” than it did before.. apparently he loves that for us all, including you….

Oh btw the current price of oil is $94/barrel, not $85 he just loves lying about everything…maybe it’s that inflation that he just “loves”…

As a side note, the National Park Service is allowing feedback of the Arc d' Trumpe until 11:59 Mountain Time on June 15. Share your thoughts. In my opinion it’s like adding a theme park obstruction to our sacred capital…

https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=151576

Here was my comment if you’d like to have a reference…

Over a century ago architects mulled where to put a new memorial to the late President Abraham Lincoln, one location stood apart: the western edge of the National Mall, on what was then the marshy mudflats of the Potomac River. That site stood on the “same axis as the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument” this formed a straight line between the government, the president who founded it and the president credited with saving it.

It is also directly across the Potomac river from Virginia's Arlington House, the former home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that sits on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.

This was not a coincidence as to where these monuments were carefully thought about before building. It’s not about the memorials or monuments themselves but their spatial meaning between all of them. There are different memorials that carry so much symbolic meaning. The Potomac River was the border between the North and South, nominally, during the Civil War; It's literally crossing the border and it symbolizes the healing of a time when our nation fought brother to brother during our Civil War. Our past wounds as memorials were placed there to remember.

This 250 feet tall, “triumphal arch” is more than double the height of the Lincoln Memorial that obstructs the site line from what was well thought out over a century ago — “a straight line between the government, the president who founded it and the president credited with saving it”. This is an abomination of all our fallen whose resting place is Arlington Cemetery to the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, two presidents that one the founder to the one who saved this nation to remain whole. It benefits nothing no significance other than a grotesque large arch that obstructs the view and meaning of our capital to appease a persons ego.

Shelly Rellim M.'s avatar

Thanks for this add to Heather’s piece. He is a dumber version of Hitler, He is a Nazi, fascist, narcissistic, sociopath, serial rapist and pedophile(still waiting on the EPSTEIN FILES because we can’t believe the thousands of now women survivors), wannabe authoritarian , imperialist king.

All the distractions, nobody realizes or is privy to all that is going on in the background.

That’s all the real smoke and mirrors while he/they are taking over our government, dismantling our Democracy and shredding our Constitution. He/they are literally and figuratively starving and strangling people to a slow death…”extermination.”

He/they are desperate and the Project 2025-26 is accelerating at an alarming speed.

We may not have much time before a Civil War is forced upon us….Jan.6-2.O.

We know he/they have ZERO intentions on leaving.

And add now that, as before people are disappearing from ICE Concentration Camps and now pregnant RAPED teens that were sent away to another facility are now Missing.

Where the Hell is Congress?? FFS.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/pregnant-minors-texas-ice-facility

Katy Bolger's avatar

My local Berkshires NPR roundtable this morning was a discussion of the systemic disappearance of women from this administration. Four cabinet members gone, all women, replaced with men. Leon Musk took an a chainsaw to Black women in government, shedding over 100 thousand. Hogsbreath is diminishing the armed forces of its capable women. In the U.S. China meeting with Xi and Trump last year, the room included three women from America, one from China. This year, no women anywhere.

Katy Bolger's avatar

Thank you for publishing the above link to the comments regarding the "Triumphal arch" Twump want stop build in DC. Comments close on June 15th!! It bears repeating:

https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=151576

Richard's avatar

Trump is such an evil piece of shit… the whole world cannot wait till he is fkn dead… 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Terry McConnell's avatar

My mother once sat me down in front of the old black and white TV so I could watch a vital and inspirational young leader tell me that I should not ask what my country could do for me; rather, what could I do for my country? My God, what has happened to that country? How are parents to raise kids now, when every day the example set before them is an empty sack of vainglory?

Jacobs-Meadway Roberta's avatar

Remember, that country was not as nostalgia may have it although the government was certainly less of a threat to the people living in this country.

There was segregation and voter suppression. There were fewer rights recognized for women. There was widespread discrimination against Jews and any non-Christian and non-white persons. Jobs had started to migrate to the non-union southern states to avoid paying union wages in what is known as the rust belt before those jobs were sent overseas by the corporate owners to be able to pay even lower wages in foreign planes where worker safety was none of their concern. Abortion rights? If you could afford one, you could find one, but there were risks on both sides of the equation. Inter Alia.

JayTay's avatar

Those ingratiating grins on the people behind him says it all, sickening ! He is a tiny person behind a curtain that when it is torn back will reveal all the levers and pulleys and wires that people worse than him use to operate him.

Paul's avatar

Poor, poor Donald J Trump, a once majestic real estate tycoon and an image-generated tough guy CEO of a reality show is now reduced to a stooped over, increasingly frail, much older and weaker man.

This version is unaware of the inconsistencies in what he says, and, like many senior citizens, do not get corrected by those around him - but, unlike them, those people around DJT are staying silent about his delusions and inconsistencies, not because of civility, but because they have their own agendas getting realized, in spite of their puppet rapidly weakening in front of their eyes, and in front of the entire Nation.

The slumlord practices of providing substandard living conditions while gouging payments from those trapped in a quagmire they can’t control is akin to what the Trump administration is perpetrating on those who rely on Social Security, Medicare and/or Medicaid for their livelihood.

These folks, who are casually dismissed by the upper class elites, however, are capable of taking control via the spread of information regarding the Truth of what is happening.

So, thank you, Heather - and thanks to those who support your efforts and the efforts of other journalists of integrity, as Knowledge is Power - and it is what we all need to rely on to stem the tide of stupidity that is attempting to ruin our democracy.

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

Thank you, Heather. Your writing is so important, even to us Brits.🇬🇧

Derek Smith's avatar

I appreciate all you report about the felon in the People’s House. For the love of everything holy, please stop posting so many images! We all know what the demonic lump of feces looks like. Sometimes I scroll past so fast I hurt myself. ☺️

JayTay's avatar

I mute the sound when he is speaking and have subtitles.

Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

Even better, turn it off!

JayTay's avatar

Know your enemy !

deborahstamper's avatar

Thank you for your daily analysis. I’m a Brit and we’ve just returned from a few days in the USA - for a wedding. We love many (not all) things about your country and have travelled extensively there but the wedding was the only reason we would visit right now. And a wedding was not the time nor place to engage in political conversation but I was struck how life everywhere appeared to be carrying on, with no obvious signs of people being perturbed by what’s going on. Contrast with outside the USA where the situation is a regular topic of conversation and anger in our experience. On the upside we were heartened to turn on the tv to CNN late one night and see a commentator giving a very frank assessment of the war in Iran. Good to see that sort of criticism can still be accessed. I admire your work and dedication- thank you.

Ellen Daley's avatar

Hey MAGATs! Do you “love the inflation” as much as your moronic leader does?!

Ann Panda's avatar

Yesterday my rethug Maga congress critter in WI 03 sent out an email newsletter with a headline about how rump is saving the country. Refuses to hold an in person town hall and is still desperate to curry rump's favor. This is the same guy who recently made an appearance with Bobby Brainworms. So infuriating.

Paula Mutzel's avatar

Keep repeating..reminding..rebuffing..reiterating..reinforcing…

This is our truth..we’re well aware of who and what he is..of what he’s doing to OUR country..of how he’s destroying it for those who come after us ..of how he MUST BE STOPPED.

And after you do that…do it AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN until he IS stopped.

This is on us..we have the power….USE IT.

Jonann Hall's avatar

You live in my area! Great read today…as usual.