At 10:34 this morning, Donald Trump was inside the Oval Office of the White House in a meeting with one of his Commissioners, a meeting that directly affects the survival and well-being of millions of senior citizens, children, and disabled Americans. But instead of focusing on that responsibility, his anger over losing yet another vote put before the American people got the best of him, and he lost control. Because after a night where millions of Virginians showed up and made their voices heard, Donald Trump did what he always does when the outcome slips beyond his control. He went to the one place where he can distort reality, control what's said, and protect himself. Truth Social. And without evidence and without hesitation, he wrote, A RIGGED ELECTION TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA! And the lie was just the beginning...
The amount of money sloshing around at the top and the courts and their henchmen must be making a fortune too. How on earth is it possible of Joe Public to survive in such a dog eat dog world.
My mantra for the moment is every day pay a bit forward. Be kind to someone, help an elderly person in your area, make a donation to a just cause. Not for you but to help someone who may be feeling even more scared and dissolutioned than we all do.
Smile at the sun and see if you can make someone else smile.
Bless you Heather for making sense of a mad world.
Thank you. I was never a fan of Mc Cain but always respected his integrity and fairness. He was a true acceptable republican politician. But that was the good ‘ol days, forever gone. There is no turning back. To stay in power and consolidate it the actual corrupt rep congress will do anything imaginable (and not yet imaginable) to achieve their goals. No voting anymore, true dictatorship, mixing God in the common human disgusting affairs. A thorough manipulation of We the people Will. Fuck ‘em all.
Heather, you're on a roll now. Two of your traits I most admire are that you think on the basis of evidence, and that you have a sense of balance between positive and negative aspects of things. Just what we all need in these dark times. We are all so grateful for you.
This self-described “extraordinarily brilliant person” has disrupted us far too long and I hope we are finally preparing to show him the door. It’s almost unbelievable so many have been conned and held captive by one sick man’s lust for power and money. Thanks for what you do, Heather.
You wrote, “…there has always been a baseline of dignity, a floor, that every person who held that office understood was required of them, regardless of party or ideology…”
47 dignifies nothing, never has. He now represents the family party, the good wife will stay home and have more babies party. AND yet, 47 cheated on all three of his wives. Many can turn a blind eye to a dalliance, even when the knowledge of it may break someone’s heart, but few will accept making a mockery of marriage itself. There is no longer an ill thought to someone who is divorced, there are very few ill thoughts to couples who live together but are not married. 47 deludes himself into thinking his financial pursuits and his lifestyle are envied. How pathetic. He knows not even a baseline of dignity in any arena.
Why is he not asked by a reporter …” if the Republicans had won in Virginia on Tuesday would the election still have been rigged and would you have challenged it in court?” Make him answer a simple question ..see what he says. The press is not..nor has not.. done their job with this man from the beginning and that has been a major contributor to his ability to get away with the things he does, Everything he tweets is a test..then he tries it and the pushback is very weak from both the press and the Democrats. There is a lot of pearl clutching and gasping but no follow up. This is a big part of the reason we’re in the situation we’re in and it should stop NOW. If the mainstream media can’t do what the independent voices on Substack do they should quit and come over to where people aren’t afraid to ask the real questions and hold truth to power. Where are the Woodward’s and Bernsteins of this generation? We have a lot of fighting to do until November and we need cooperation from a press and a party to DEMAND the truth no matter what the cost. Hold his feet to the fire the way the Hungarians did to Orban…don’t let him get away with any more.
This is an astute psychological analysis of Trump; his base motivation, and the actions that emerge from those motives. Would that mainstream reporters venture down this path because it is all that matters. While these “very serious people” are parsing his actions, with the assumption that, like all Presidents before him, they have legitimacy, you are analyzing the foundation of his truly sick mind. This is where the real action is. Please continue down this path. It’s why I became and remain a subscriber
Jan6 was the successful test he and stephen miller hoped for so why not continue with that playbook? Every insidious thing they do is testing just how much they can push limits and how far they can go. It’s a necessary game plan for this regime. It allows them to work out the obstacles because republicans have always been exceptional at the long game …ALEC and voter id; Roe v Wade, etc. Democrats should have been policing this more closely especially since it’s all done right under their noses. Fox News is a terrorist organization. Bringing down their advertisers is an excellent starting point for meaningful and serious resistance. Consequences make impressions.
Jami, all that and more. Jan6, also showed us exactly who the RepubliKKKans are, sycophantic and complicit BLOOD Money hungry MAGA/MAWA- Make AmeriKKKa White (“christian”) Again, with trump, his family, Epstein Class, wealthy KKKronies, Eugenics, ICE Gestapo and Concentration Camps with Mass deportations. Don’t forget the Project 2025-26 architects and the Heritage Foundation “fixing” what went wrong during their trump tool’s first term and the crazy AI Palantir, Thiel and others with their MAWA, Nazi fascist, oligarchy agenda.
Damn, as Tears for Fears put it, “Everybody wants to Rule the World,” at least those crazy, MAWA, blood money hungry , narcissist motherf-ers sure as hell do…And WE the PEOPLE CAN NOT Let Them!
The lesson I draw from this is that every action that Republican’s take is to seize and amass power for its own sake while Democrats assume we are in normal times where political parties are supposed to act in the greater interests of the country and its citizens. They shrewdly focused on rigging the Supreme Court, which has both backstopped their interests and subsequently gone beyond that by creating the monster of the infallible President who has virtually unlimited power.
Don’t forget who made this all inevitable when he declined to impeach tRump—Mitch McConnell. His goal all along was not to allow the democrats to ever get elected again.
This is a great post that covers the waterfront and lays out what lies ahead. I like remembering that honorable moment when John McCain called out that supporter. I was an Obama supporter but couldn’t help but admire McCain in that moment and those are the type of people who should be leaders as Heather says. The crybaby Republicans are deceitful and remind me of a bully who finds himself confronted by someone tougher and starts whining when they lose.
Heather, these last posts are so spot on. You and Heather Cox Richardson, Lance Rosen, IFucking Love Australia, Aaron Parnas and others have to keep spreading the truths. It is vital to our survival of what’s left of our Democracy at this point and moving forward.
I would caution some other things. His reference to Sherman, although I am not much of a historian, seems to apply both domestically, here in the US as well as globally Iran and his/their Imperialistic conquests.
IMO, trump and his fellow Nazi fascist Epstein Class and complicit KKKabinet, RepubliKKKans and Benedict Fetterman are waiting to create a state of Emergency by some FALSE Flag, inciting a Civil War with his J6’ers and ICE Gestapo leading the way, and/or a domestic terrorist incident he/they will blame on Iran/Muslims, “Domestic Terrorists,” “Paid radical left democratic scumbags,” to invoke Martial Law and create more chaos to Cancel Elections they are already trying to rig and steal. All the while extorting and laundering money, manipulating the stock market, Polymarket, “real estate,” “BORED of Peace” laundering money into his account in Qatar with the stolen oil money, etc., etc.
Chaos, exhaustion, fear, propaganda, strangling the weak, poor, immigrants, citizens, kidnappings and mass deportations…the the Nazi fascist Playbook, to try and wear us down Can NOT happen.
The amount of money sloshing around at the top and the courts and their henchmen must be making a fortune too. How on earth is it possible of Joe Public to survive in such a dog eat dog world.
My mantra for the moment is every day pay a bit forward. Be kind to someone, help an elderly person in your area, make a donation to a just cause. Not for you but to help someone who may be feeling even more scared and dissolutioned than we all do.
Smile at the sun and see if you can make someone else smile.
Bless you Heather for making sense of a mad world.
Exactly how I feel!
Thank you. I was never a fan of Mc Cain but always respected his integrity and fairness. He was a true acceptable republican politician. But that was the good ‘ol days, forever gone. There is no turning back. To stay in power and consolidate it the actual corrupt rep congress will do anything imaginable (and not yet imaginable) to achieve their goals. No voting anymore, true dictatorship, mixing God in the common human disgusting affairs. A thorough manipulation of We the people Will. Fuck ‘em all.
Heather, you're on a roll now. Two of your traits I most admire are that you think on the basis of evidence, and that you have a sense of balance between positive and negative aspects of things. Just what we all need in these dark times. We are all so grateful for you.
Hi Heather,
Thank you for this clear commentary, as always. Trying to rig the elections, by claiming they are rigged?!!!
Thank you for that reminder of what John McCain said. These flashbacks of integrity bring tears to my eyes.
Another wonderful piece of writing, Heather. This is precisely why l subscribed. I am proud to be a supporter.
This self-described “extraordinarily brilliant person” has disrupted us far too long and I hope we are finally preparing to show him the door. It’s almost unbelievable so many have been conned and held captive by one sick man’s lust for power and money. Thanks for what you do, Heather.
That little bit of self-aggrandizement leaves me wanting to throw up! There’s no low point he won’t sink to.
Hi Heather,
You wrote, “…there has always been a baseline of dignity, a floor, that every person who held that office understood was required of them, regardless of party or ideology…”
47 dignifies nothing, never has. He now represents the family party, the good wife will stay home and have more babies party. AND yet, 47 cheated on all three of his wives. Many can turn a blind eye to a dalliance, even when the knowledge of it may break someone’s heart, but few will accept making a mockery of marriage itself. There is no longer an ill thought to someone who is divorced, there are very few ill thoughts to couples who live together but are not married. 47 deludes himself into thinking his financial pursuits and his lifestyle are envied. How pathetic. He knows not even a baseline of dignity in any arena.
Why is he not asked by a reporter …” if the Republicans had won in Virginia on Tuesday would the election still have been rigged and would you have challenged it in court?” Make him answer a simple question ..see what he says. The press is not..nor has not.. done their job with this man from the beginning and that has been a major contributor to his ability to get away with the things he does, Everything he tweets is a test..then he tries it and the pushback is very weak from both the press and the Democrats. There is a lot of pearl clutching and gasping but no follow up. This is a big part of the reason we’re in the situation we’re in and it should stop NOW. If the mainstream media can’t do what the independent voices on Substack do they should quit and come over to where people aren’t afraid to ask the real questions and hold truth to power. Where are the Woodward’s and Bernsteins of this generation? We have a lot of fighting to do until November and we need cooperation from a press and a party to DEMAND the truth no matter what the cost. Hold his feet to the fire the way the Hungarians did to Orban…don’t let him get away with any more.
This is an astute psychological analysis of Trump; his base motivation, and the actions that emerge from those motives. Would that mainstream reporters venture down this path because it is all that matters. While these “very serious people” are parsing his actions, with the assumption that, like all Presidents before him, they have legitimacy, you are analyzing the foundation of his truly sick mind. This is where the real action is. Please continue down this path. It’s why I became and remain a subscriber
Finally, some good news! Thanks Virginia!
Jan6 was the successful test he and stephen miller hoped for so why not continue with that playbook? Every insidious thing they do is testing just how much they can push limits and how far they can go. It’s a necessary game plan for this regime. It allows them to work out the obstacles because republicans have always been exceptional at the long game …ALEC and voter id; Roe v Wade, etc. Democrats should have been policing this more closely especially since it’s all done right under their noses. Fox News is a terrorist organization. Bringing down their advertisers is an excellent starting point for meaningful and serious resistance. Consequences make impressions.
Jami, all that and more. Jan6, also showed us exactly who the RepubliKKKans are, sycophantic and complicit BLOOD Money hungry MAGA/MAWA- Make AmeriKKKa White (“christian”) Again, with trump, his family, Epstein Class, wealthy KKKronies, Eugenics, ICE Gestapo and Concentration Camps with Mass deportations. Don’t forget the Project 2025-26 architects and the Heritage Foundation “fixing” what went wrong during their trump tool’s first term and the crazy AI Palantir, Thiel and others with their MAWA, Nazi fascist, oligarchy agenda.
Damn, as Tears for Fears put it, “Everybody wants to Rule the World,” at least those crazy, MAWA, blood money hungry , narcissist motherf-ers sure as hell do…And WE the PEOPLE CAN NOT Let Them!
The lesson I draw from this is that every action that Republican’s take is to seize and amass power for its own sake while Democrats assume we are in normal times where political parties are supposed to act in the greater interests of the country and its citizens. They shrewdly focused on rigging the Supreme Court, which has both backstopped their interests and subsequently gone beyond that by creating the monster of the infallible President who has virtually unlimited power.
Thank you, Heather. I needed this today.
I feel better after reading Heathers posts- making sense in this nightmare
Don’t forget who made this all inevitable when he declined to impeach tRump—Mitch McConnell. His goal all along was not to allow the democrats to ever get elected again.
This is a great post that covers the waterfront and lays out what lies ahead. I like remembering that honorable moment when John McCain called out that supporter. I was an Obama supporter but couldn’t help but admire McCain in that moment and those are the type of people who should be leaders as Heather says. The crybaby Republicans are deceitful and remind me of a bully who finds himself confronted by someone tougher and starts whining when they lose.
Heather, these last posts are so spot on. You and Heather Cox Richardson, Lance Rosen, IFucking Love Australia, Aaron Parnas and others have to keep spreading the truths. It is vital to our survival of what’s left of our Democracy at this point and moving forward.
I would caution some other things. His reference to Sherman, although I am not much of a historian, seems to apply both domestically, here in the US as well as globally Iran and his/their Imperialistic conquests.
IMO, trump and his fellow Nazi fascist Epstein Class and complicit KKKabinet, RepubliKKKans and Benedict Fetterman are waiting to create a state of Emergency by some FALSE Flag, inciting a Civil War with his J6’ers and ICE Gestapo leading the way, and/or a domestic terrorist incident he/they will blame on Iran/Muslims, “Domestic Terrorists,” “Paid radical left democratic scumbags,” to invoke Martial Law and create more chaos to Cancel Elections they are already trying to rig and steal. All the while extorting and laundering money, manipulating the stock market, Polymarket, “real estate,” “BORED of Peace” laundering money into his account in Qatar with the stolen oil money, etc., etc.
Chaos, exhaustion, fear, propaganda, strangling the weak, poor, immigrants, citizens, kidnappings and mass deportations…the the Nazi fascist Playbook, to try and wear us down Can NOT happen.
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ALWAYS FOLLOW THE BLOOD MONEY🩸💰
trump=Hitler
November is NOW
UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL❤️🩹
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It’s a Never-ending supply of money to keep their power and control and national and global takeovers.