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Meredith Godwin's avatar

I couldn't have said it better myself. You hit all the key points including codifying Roe. Well written!

Kate Schroeder's avatar

In a nutshell the Democrats listened to everyone except the people who were voting. A meet and greet in any state would have bought that home .

OpheliaPG's avatar

💯🔥Summation on the dumpster fire called The Democrats! 👊🏼

Chris N's avatar

Concisely covers the main points. Thanks.

william howard's avatar

if you can't see how much better the first Trump adm. was than Buyden/Harris then you don't have much of a grasp of reality

Claire Drouault's avatar

Fighting misinformation and disinformation by using disinformation and misinformation doesn't exactly work like fighting fire with fire.

Larry's avatar

Meet the new boss same as the old boss-Who's Next

Anteros Astrology's avatar

One helpful change would be having a national press that did their job instead of being run out of CIA and FBI headquarters. The same places are social media algorithms, de amplifications, and censorship all come from. I wrote a very interesting note about why the deep state can’t control Trump. You’d think I’d get a little bit of interaction out of that one don’t you think? but interestingly enough like most of my notes nobody seems to ever see them. but if I’m an 89-year-old grandma from Dearborn, who doesn’t write any articles for Substack I can get hundreds of interactions for a note that doesn’t really say much.

Patricia's avatar

Indeed:

They’ve planned this carefully and slowly over the last 4 decades. Now it appears to come to fruition. However?, it seems they’ve grown so very confident in their ability to succeed;

they fail to see where they’ve failed: and where they will continue to fail. That will lead to their proverbial “house of cards” being swept away with the next crises that will inevitably arise.

It’s painful process for us, but it will be fascinating to watch as they watch powerlessly as their 3-Mile Island and Chernobyl melts down:

And takes/melts them down with it .

Redeemed Dissident's avatar

Everything that is balancing precariously that the moderates and repubs (& RHINOS) think is somehow going to be magically "handled" by executive order and rhetoric under the Trump "leadership" is going too fast in the wrong direction for the momentum already present to be diminished. At best, a temporary delay and a still near term implosion of the entire system upon which the fragile remnants of this once Constitutional Republic rests seems inevitable. There are too many globalists already in the ranks, too many whose interests lie not in the preservation of a representative government and rule by law, but instead with reserving for themselves (at least in theory) a }place at the table" with the "big boys" once the dust of a worldwide "reset" falls and settles and the landscape permanently inexorably transformed into somthing completely unrecognizable -- with "liberty" and "freedom" a mere delusion that continues as part of perceived genuine but in reality virtual reality imposed upon the perceptions of those not culled but enslaved in the biodigital panopticon that emerges from the smoke of the final vestiges of decency, law, order and mutual respect and deference to doing the right thing versus taking what you can at whatever cost. That we have for so long contented ourselves with surrendering our responsibility and participation in the affairs of our lives, preferring to simply cast a vote to a person or persons whom we expect to make things better for us (at no cost to us) is a testimony to what has truly been lost and now is too late for recovery and a restoration, IMO. The only (still tarnished, but not yet eradicated) hope is in the spiritual kingdom that is intact and robust and claims on us that which we do not deserve but are offered freely by grace and through the One who paid the price for our inclusion.

Guillermo Calvo Mahé's avatar

But for the obligatory and superfluous anti Trump rhetoric, this would have been a great analysis.

Silent scorn's avatar

Yes the article started out well and really fizzled with the anti trump rhetoric. The broad based coalition of freedom lovers that voted for him will make sure that this country gets turned around. For starters, Hamas signaled its interest in peace terms less than 24 hrs after Trumps victory. ✌️

gigibelser@www.gigibelser.com's avatar

agree...I thought it was well done until I got to the anti Trump material at the end. I just do not see this happening as outlined...there is too much on the line and DT knows it.

Lisa Price's avatar

Thank you, I don’t agree with everything you said, but there should be no role for Mike Pompeo in this administration. If they make one for him, it is a very bad sign. If Trump commutes Ross, pardons Assange, drops charges against Snowden and releases the full JFK files and lets the chips fall on the govt coverup, these would be good signs of something different in governing this time around.

Pym of Nantucket's avatar

Good points, especially the end where you say Trump will not be a saviour. I think reality will become increasingly a constraint so makjng up stories is less workable as a strategy. The physical world comes knocking at the door when the rules based order of coercing tribute to the US empire is ineffective. Historically most empires are unable to reverse decline once it starts. Russia has revived itself 35 years later after shedding the yoke of a system based on narrative instead of reality. China has had many ups and downs. For the US to reverse course, they need to "snap back to reality" as Eminem says.

cauchonpmusic@gmail.com's avatar

Yes! Thank you… and so it is… 🙏♾️

Jim Howes's avatar

I’m always confused but intrigued when I read an opinion piece that hits all the points I agree with on censorship, Patriot Act, warmongering neocons, etc. but then calls Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide. I just… I don’t get it. I’m really curious what sources of news and information you are reading in order to conclude that “genocide” is a factually accurate description of the situation. Wouldn’t it be sufficient to just say that lots of civilians are dying as a result of military action supported by US aid money? Why the hyperbole?

Punditman's avatar

Check out Al Jazeera or Instagram's coverage of Gaza for primary sources of what is actually happening compared to how Western media sanitizes it all. Or look at Chris Hedges' take on it. Those are just a few places to start.