I agree with you, but would like it if you explained the link between the hired clown and the Heritage Foundation. Yes, he's Putin's choice. But he's also the Heritage Foundation's frontman.
The Heritage Foundation has been in operation since 1973 and flourished under Ronald Regan in the 1980s with the agenda to fundamentally change how our government functions. It was their conscripting of the conservative Christians to overturn Roe v Wade way back in the 1980s. It was far less about abortion (for the HF) than about enticing conservative Christians to support the foundation's policies and plans. The Heritage Foundation was developed (and caused) specifically for today's political climate and Trump fit the bill. Trump doesn't understand or even know he's being used. And the foundation doesn't care that he's uncontrollable. They simply needed the distractor-in-chief to keep us all busy while they placed their loyalist in charge all over the country. ALEC has been in operation since at least the 1990s writing legislation for local and state governments paving the way for the next election.
There is a much larger threat to our country than Trump and Putin. It's the Heritage Foundation's plan (Project 2025) to overthrow our way of governing and placing themselves at the head of their new government. Trump tells us what he's learned and "let slip" in his rallies by his HF handlers. Don't forget, he's not that smart. But he's mailable as long as you flatter him and feed him the language. People like Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors founded the organization and grew to include others like Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry,Scott Pruitt, Jeff Sessions, and so many others who were inserted into Trump's first administration, have been plotting for decades are standing on the precipice success. We can't let them win!
Reed, your essays are beautifully written and passionate. When you write about the bullying, I almost tear up. Most disappointing are his followers that cheer the ugliness. These grownups have for the past 8 years been showing their dark empty souls to the world in their adoration for a soulless, false prophet. Trump moderating? Some saying he will restore justice for all American's who have been unfairly treated.!?#*? (Hmm, does that mean restorations of the voting rights act.?) I think if you are all following Reed, it means we are on the same page. I know I need reach to reach out to more folks, not MAGA's, who are not on this page with us. There is a volume of them out there. Let's talk with them. Again, thanks Reed, for your leadership.
It is not enough that people decline to vote for the 45th president. It is essential that sufficient numbers of them vote for Biden.
The example of Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary John Lehman – two Republican stalwarts who have disavowed the 45th president and also have rejected President Biden – is a source of profound dismay. Further, it is unconscionable.
The 45th president and his campaign may have nowhere else to go. But voters who turn away from him do: to No Labels, a write-in, or an abstention. Pence, Lehman, and many others are, deplorably, leading the way.
*****The former vice president declined to say whether he would vote for Mr. Trump in the November election, but answered, “I would never vote for Joe Biden.” He also ruled out running for president as a third-party or independent candidate, saying he remained a Republican.*****
Let's cut to the chase here. Trump is an awful candidate (and human being) and will turn off many voters. But what keeps me up at night are the double threats of voter suppression and manipulating the voter rolls, and third-party candidates. We have got to come up with a plan to combat these. Please help!!!!!
Donald is a "weak sister". The Press gives him deference and legitimacy he doesn't deserve. Even a tiny portion.
Of all the writings about Trump (Woodward, Cheney, Haberman, Bolton, et al) this 92 page ruling by Judge Engeron reveals Donald's smallness the best. The stupidity. The self-destruction. The bluster. The Three Stooges slapstick dark comedy. The striving for the appearance of greatness "like the world has never seen" and falling flat on his face. Over and over again. He's been a loser for decades. Now he's pushing away 90% of the voters in a mad dash for the chasm.
It must be awfully satisfying to him when he rejects Haley's and Romney's voters, because he's reducing his own chances at electoral success by doing so. He just can't seem to abandon his stiff-necked, prideful, self-destructive ways, even to save his own skin.
You’re right on. The pressure is on and getting more intense as courts and polls come down on him. As for me, I’m a little numb to his act now. It’s even funny to a point. Maybe humorously pathetic is better description. I’m not naive, but confident truth and justice will prevail.
I enjoyed your chat with Kara Swisher so much that I've subscribed to her pod too. Grateful to learn about current events from smart, like-minded people.
When analysts and pundits say that the country "is just waking up to the fact" or "just coming to understand the reality of a Biden-Trump rematch" I think what they mean is, people who thought Trump was gone - diminished and inconsequential, cosplaying his former role at his MAL clownpark, dinner and a show for his red-hatted customers - is not, in fact, gone.
Who wouldn't assume, in the normal order, that a successful and healhty President Biden wouldn't run again? That's just norrmal politics.
But a Trump rematch? As he's facing 80+ felony convictions, etc.? People are shocked that *Trump* is on the ticket again. And I suspect it's because we have mass PTSD about his last (🙏🤞🤞last) term. We're waking up to the living nightmare that the ghost we thought we buried and could forget, is back, literally out for revenge.
The fact that his numbers are soft and the Bannon Line is shifting is evidence that the country is about to have an "Aw, HELL naw!" moment. Meanwhile, Trump will keep reminding us, with rising intensity as he decompensates, why we should - and how we can - make him a losing loser yet again. Put his insanity on display and vote like hell.
You're right, he has nowhere to go. Every day that he spews his usual unhinged words (what else to call them but 'words'?), the path opens another trapdoor.
I agree with you, but would like it if you explained the link between the hired clown and the Heritage Foundation. Yes, he's Putin's choice. But he's also the Heritage Foundation's frontman.
The Heritage Foundation has been in operation since 1973 and flourished under Ronald Regan in the 1980s with the agenda to fundamentally change how our government functions. It was their conscripting of the conservative Christians to overturn Roe v Wade way back in the 1980s. It was far less about abortion (for the HF) than about enticing conservative Christians to support the foundation's policies and plans. The Heritage Foundation was developed (and caused) specifically for today's political climate and Trump fit the bill. Trump doesn't understand or even know he's being used. And the foundation doesn't care that he's uncontrollable. They simply needed the distractor-in-chief to keep us all busy while they placed their loyalist in charge all over the country. ALEC has been in operation since at least the 1990s writing legislation for local and state governments paving the way for the next election.
There is a much larger threat to our country than Trump and Putin. It's the Heritage Foundation's plan (Project 2025) to overthrow our way of governing and placing themselves at the head of their new government. Trump tells us what he's learned and "let slip" in his rallies by his HF handlers. Don't forget, he's not that smart. But he's mailable as long as you flatter him and feed him the language. People like Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors founded the organization and grew to include others like Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry,Scott Pruitt, Jeff Sessions, and so many others who were inserted into Trump's first administration, have been plotting for decades are standing on the precipice success. We can't let them win!
Yes!!
Reed, your essays are beautifully written and passionate. When you write about the bullying, I almost tear up. Most disappointing are his followers that cheer the ugliness. These grownups have for the past 8 years been showing their dark empty souls to the world in their adoration for a soulless, false prophet. Trump moderating? Some saying he will restore justice for all American's who have been unfairly treated.!?#*? (Hmm, does that mean restorations of the voting rights act.?) I think if you are all following Reed, it means we are on the same page. I know I need reach to reach out to more folks, not MAGA's, who are not on this page with us. There is a volume of them out there. Let's talk with them. Again, thanks Reed, for your leadership.
Consider the essay that Mona Charen put up today. I commented on and linked to it in the note at the following link: https://substack.com/profile/4352563-eric-brody/note/c-52003376
It is not enough that people decline to vote for the 45th president. It is essential that sufficient numbers of them vote for Biden.
The example of Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary John Lehman – two Republican stalwarts who have disavowed the 45th president and also have rejected President Biden – is a source of profound dismay. Further, it is unconscionable.
The 45th president and his campaign may have nowhere else to go. But voters who turn away from him do: to No Labels, a write-in, or an abstention. Pence, Lehman, and many others are, deplorably, leading the way.
https://substack.com/profile/4352563-eric-brody/note/c-52003376
Here is the New York Times report on Pence's statement to Fox:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/mike-pence-trump-endorsement.html
*****The former vice president declined to say whether he would vote for Mr. Trump in the November election, but answered, “I would never vote for Joe Biden.” He also ruled out running for president as a third-party or independent candidate, saying he remained a Republican.*****
Let's cut to the chase here. Trump is an awful candidate (and human being) and will turn off many voters. But what keeps me up at night are the double threats of voter suppression and manipulating the voter rolls, and third-party candidates. We have got to come up with a plan to combat these. Please help!!!!!
Donald is a "weak sister". The Press gives him deference and legitimacy he doesn't deserve. Even a tiny portion.
Of all the writings about Trump (Woodward, Cheney, Haberman, Bolton, et al) this 92 page ruling by Judge Engeron reveals Donald's smallness the best. The stupidity. The self-destruction. The bluster. The Three Stooges slapstick dark comedy. The striving for the appearance of greatness "like the world has never seen" and falling flat on his face. Over and over again. He's been a loser for decades. Now he's pushing away 90% of the voters in a mad dash for the chasm.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f203be39-020c-4f82-a423-96aa20c08e3a.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_3
It must be awfully satisfying to him when he rejects Haley's and Romney's voters, because he's reducing his own chances at electoral success by doing so. He just can't seem to abandon his stiff-necked, prideful, self-destructive ways, even to save his own skin.
You’re right on. The pressure is on and getting more intense as courts and polls come down on him. As for me, I’m a little numb to his act now. It’s even funny to a point. Maybe humorously pathetic is better description. I’m not naive, but confident truth and justice will prevail.
Yes, sometimes humorously pathetic. Well, just pathetic.
I enjoyed your chat with Kara Swisher so much that I've subscribed to her pod too. Grateful to learn about current events from smart, like-minded people.
When analysts and pundits say that the country "is just waking up to the fact" or "just coming to understand the reality of a Biden-Trump rematch" I think what they mean is, people who thought Trump was gone - diminished and inconsequential, cosplaying his former role at his MAL clownpark, dinner and a show for his red-hatted customers - is not, in fact, gone.
Who wouldn't assume, in the normal order, that a successful and healhty President Biden wouldn't run again? That's just norrmal politics.
But a Trump rematch? As he's facing 80+ felony convictions, etc.? People are shocked that *Trump* is on the ticket again. And I suspect it's because we have mass PTSD about his last (🙏🤞🤞last) term. We're waking up to the living nightmare that the ghost we thought we buried and could forget, is back, literally out for revenge.
The fact that his numbers are soft and the Bannon Line is shifting is evidence that the country is about to have an "Aw, HELL naw!" moment. Meanwhile, Trump will keep reminding us, with rising intensity as he decompensates, why we should - and how we can - make him a losing loser yet again. Put his insanity on display and vote like hell.
You're right, he has nowhere to go. Every day that he spews his usual unhinged words (what else to call them but 'words'?), the path opens another trapdoor.
Vote, vote, vote!