Trashy is when you do not have the character and dignity to stand up and applaud for a 13 year old young man of color who survived brain cancer…trashy is when supposed adults act like idiots and sit on their liberal asses and show the children of America exactly how not to behave in public…trashy is voting against women in favor of transgender men who have no right or privilege to infringe on the life and work of real women and girls…trashy is favoring illegals over veterans…trashy is being a fake Jew and doing nothing for Jews…trashy is being against making America great again just because it is someone else’s idea and you can only hate that someone else…
"Trashy" is basically how "our" President; incidentally elected with both the overwhelming majority of both the Electoral & Popular Votes by We-The-People; described the forever lost souls on the sorry left side last night! They are so dug into their indoctrination agenda, with their heads so buried in it, it's hard to believe that they can still even breath. Isn't it amazing how they "hate" so much, that they refuse to actually "see" that what is happening is NOT a detriment, and is actually to even their benefit! Oh! For a "Dislike", or "Lost Soul" Button!
And, it looks as IF that majority of 28% of eligible Voters that actually voted, thereby giving him the 314 Electoral Votes, doesn't really mean anything to you! 👍 As long as "you" can come up with at least some denigration. It's NOT his fault that more people have decided not to participate in voting due to the massive election fraud anymore. Nor, is it his fault that the same goes for your fellow leftists that failed to Vote in an even smaller percentage!
no, just doesn't represent 'a mandate'...that seems so important to the most radical Right, the folks at the 2025 plan of the HF that hurts Americans, carried by someone who claimed he had never heard of 2025...he is awash in lies, he lied last night like most of us breath!
You well represent those who actually live by and believe the lies of your choice, mostly from like believers and the MSM! Have a good day, IF you are able! I have a life.
For the record: Old Orange received a plurality, not majority, of 49.7% with 77.3 million votes to the Wokester's 48.2% and 75.3 million. And the electoral count for OO was 312, not 314. One doesn't need to be a quant to see that the term "mandate" does not apply electorally.
What you should consider as the "Mandate", is that because of Trump, the Republicans now have the Majority in both the House and Senate of Congress!!! 👍 Is that not a Mandate?
"Trashy" is inviting the widow and two daughters of the man who was killed at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and then drawing all attention back to yourself and declaring that "God" saved YOUR life to "make America great again." So....the rest of that sentence would be, "but YOUR husband/father didn't matter to God like I did."
"Trashy" is exploiting the pathos of a 15 year old with brain cancer wearing a police uniform while pardoning the savagery of those who brutalized real police officers trying to defend the capitol and elected officials, including those who are blindly loyal to you.
Blindness and deafness are a real pandemic in this country these days.
Please, take a few minutes of your lives and watch this; it will help you understand what is happening to you, to the country; it won't hurt you or offend you in any way, but it might enlighten you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ZaXpIn2fg
Trashy is firing young workers for no reason who are getting ready for helping us reduce the threat of fires.
Trashy is the glee in their pain!
Trashy is being supportive of lies and fear that hurt people like saying that 100 year old are getting Social Security!
Trashy is Donny-John and the rest of Musky Sewer Circus!
Trashy seeking god-like retribution on his perceived enemies!
Trashy is the threatening of Zelenskyy and his people in favor of the murderous Putin!
Trashy is Donny committing 34 felonies!
Here's the deal--Christians have been warned that a man like this, who looks fair but feels foul, might trying to fool you...just saying.
Faux/Fuax, Not really News, lies about vets and immigrants..most undocumented people arrived on visas and over stayed (like the Musky-Man)...and they build our houses, clean our houses, take care of our families...and they commit fewer crimes, as percentage, than do white folks. So get a grip!
I assume that your memory has failed because you seem to be oblivious about the trashiness from the GOP during previous State of the Union speeches.
Calling out “you lie!”. And of course the performances of the idiot sisters MTG and Boebert, And the failure to applaud when the speaker is not a Republican.
How did you forget? I sure didn’t. What goes around, comes around.
By the way, how can a party that raises MTG to positions of leadership ever expect respect?
We are "dealing with it." And so are you and so will we all. As Rick Wilson wrote, "Everything Trump Touches Dies." As the member of Canada's Parliament said, "Everything Trump Touches Turns to Crap." You are witnessing the truth of those declarations with each passing day, but your odd sense of victory, "we won," in the face of destruction and death must comfort you while everything that made this country actually special and (in the true sense of the word) awesome is being ruined. Couldn't you and those like you have just sent all your money, your health, your hope and dreams to the organized crime group now in power without having to force all the rest of us to do the same? It is the foundational sadism of this whole mob, the enjoyment of the suffering of others, that has dragged all of us into your world. You "won" - what exactly? The "pleasure" of watching hundreds of thousands of decent, hard-working civil servants become unemployed because of the whims of idiotic sadistic criminals? The "pleasure" of knowing that millions of Americans, old, young, babies, will die because a cruel, vile, heroin-addict, brain-worm infected, serial predator and adulterer, unscientific idiot has the power over once-genius American health and science? The "pleasure" of living through the acceleration of global changes that bring floods, violent storms, fires, destruction and death? The "pleasure" of scarcity of basic foods and goods in once plentiful marketplaces?
You "won" you say. You lost and we all lost and the difference between you and intelligent people is that intelligent people know what has been lost and we are mourning it. Mr. Keillor keeps describing ways in which he is transcending any of the darker moods, but for many of us "out here" that just isn't happening. Maybe we need more rhubarb pie. Spring is coming - we hope - and so will rhubarb. Hope springs eternal....
How does it feel to be a cheerleader for the overthrow of our government and the destruction of our country. It is horrifyingly intriguing to wonder how so many of you came to hate this country so much that it arouses you, seems to thrill you and your ilk, to celebrate its decline and degradation. And do not issue any of your mindless, truly stupid, "orders" to me or anyone else here ("chill"). You are here only to cause trouble but you do represent some sort of un-American failed education result, regardless of your source, backing or motivation. As one of your lunatic leaders might say, he of the heroin-addicted, brain-worm, sexual predator resume, and borrowing from Shakespeare, "a pox on you." And "pox" usually causes fever, so, you know: chill.. Or, call upon your spray-painted fake gold new Jesus to cure what ails you.
Great…we are getting the real America back…where girls play sports against girls…immigration laws are enforced…egg suckers have to work for a living…etc, etc, etc.
Trashy is when you use a 13 year old brain cancer survivor as a political prop while your party suspends and/or cancels U.S. backed funding for organizations that provide lifesaving care and medicine for children and babies in other countries. Trashy is when a supposed adult congressman yells out “You lie!” at the President of the United States during a State of the Union address, showing the children of America exactly how not to behave in public. Trashy is trivializing the discrimination and violence faced by transgender people because it’s easy to vilify those who are different and use them as scapegoats to justify your sense of normalcy. Trashy is repeating talking points that have no basis in reality other than the fact that small-minded people will believe anything as long as the misinformation is repeated enough. Trashy is unwavering support for a leader of the Jewish people who allowed October 7th to occur without questioning how or why it happened in the first place. Trashy is believing that America needs to be restored to some prior iteration of itself when that past history includes genocide, slavery, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Trashy is turning every conversation, comment, and/or response into a platform to defend your own moral confusion and delusion. If GK was Musk and Substack was X, you (PoppiRowe) would have been blocked and banished to Truth Social long ago.
I just read that Trump is deporting 240,000 Ukrainians back to a war zone. They are not dependent on us for support, just for a safe place to wait out the war.
This is mere cruelty and a favor to another dictator.
Who do you think Jesus would pray to change?
If you support this anti-Christian anti-human cruelty and still call yourself a Christian, you are a fraud.
How do you feel about this? If you can square this circle you ain’t no Christian. You may not even be human.
I do not think you have ever raised a serious question on this thread…you are the typical name calling, demeaning liberal who is not capable of having a true dialogue…as for my Christianity Jesus has taken care of that and I could give a flying flip what you think…you are the worst of the worst…and the war will be over before any Ukrainians get deported…
So you blocked me, fake Christian, who tries to hide behind Jesus. Now you have more time to examine that soul of yours. And to wonder why you are afraid to answer my serious and simple question.
Garrison, do you really believe NPR will put you back on the radio just because you are pandering to the political left? Alternately, did you get paid for this? I can't believe I and my family listened to you for 20 years. The only person who died on Jan. 6th was Ashley Babbit, a unarmed veteran who was shot by a police officer with a history of professional misconduct. The doors to the Capitol were left wide open (see surveillance videos) in a classic case of entrapment. There is no way you do not know this. I have stuck up for you for years to a number of people who have stopped listening to you, but now I don't trust you.
They will never believe you they get their information from the liars at NPR or PBS CNN or MSNBC etc. Mr Keillor had a good gig going till he turned into a liberal liar. The folks in Lake Woebegone are sad in how he turned out.
I'm, sorry your family wasted 20 years on my Marxist Communist show about the left-wing radicals of Lake Wobegon. I hope you have your TV locked to Fox News. Your version of the Love Fest at the Capitol varies somewhat from the truth. There were barricades and the mob attacked law enforcement. Take another look. Bye
I don't own a TV and if I did I wouldn't use it to watch Fox News. I do own a radio and have listened to it for years. including your show. I didn't call you a Marxist or Communist. I'd guess you are closer to a White. Christian Patriarch than you think you are.
Judging from your comments, whatever you've been listening to on the radio must be even worse than Fox News, purveyor of the Big Lie. P.S. Have you taken measures to protect your pets from hungry Haitians?
Who needs to engage with ideas when you can disparge unapproved information sources and make ad hominen attacks? I suppose if something isn't reported in the New York Times it didn't really appen? What I listened to on the radio was Prarire Home Companion and I noticed that, over the years, as it became more poltical it became less funny.
Really? Wow! I saw the footage, the people overcoming the police, armed, and watched them rampage inside and outside, throughout the capital...this is where we stand. You believe something to be true and belittle all others folks who disagree...like Donny and Putin. I favor the brave.
Brave....really? On Jan. 6th Officer Michael Byrd shot an unarmed woman in the neck - a 12 year air force veteran named Asheley Babbit - and killed her. That's bravery? This guy was previously investigated for leaving his firearm unattended in a public bathroom. Byrd is walking around free today. Meanwhile Ashley Babbit doesn't even have a Wikipedia page to document her life - I wonder why?
How do you "know" these things when, as you claim, you didn't "see" any of it because, as you claim, you don't have a TV? The rest of us DID see what happened, to our horror, and we KNOW the truth. What you are spewing is lies, falsehood, propaganda and dangerous anti-American un-reality; in other words, in clinical terms, psychosis. Like a cult or any kind of brainwashing, there is a collective psychosis in America and it has put all the rest of us under the control of raving, dangerous lunatics who hold tremendous power.
Congradulations. You must be a professional psychiatrist and very highly trained that you can diagnose my mental state ao accurately from a couple of sentences that I wrote. Your talents are wasted on the internet.
Didn't Tocqueville conclude that Democracy in America worked because simple folks got involved and lead based on local and common knowledge? I wonder what he would say today.
It hurts my soul to see these comments from these Trump supporters because I feel certain that so many of them are kind people who love their families and friends and their country. But I also know that they get their "news" from Fox, Newsmax and right wing radio and won't budge from those silos to see what is happening to the country they love. The NY Times' fact check of last night's speech was so long that I only made it halfway through before I ran out of time. How can people support this person who lies like breathing, is an adjudicated rapist, a convicted felon and has put in charge of our government an unelected bureaucrat who is giving 20 year olds unfettered access to our most personal and sensitive information? (And ridiculously, last night, Trump railed against unelected bureaucrats.) This man who has alienated our closest allies and bullied a hero who gave up his country's nuclear weapons in exchange for security and now is denying him that very guarantee unless he grovels to him and to Putin? This person who has cut off aid to starving children in Sudan, cut off medical research of cancer, looks to strip millions of American of their health insurance? And the list goes on and on. Keep speaking your truth, Garrison. Maybe, just maybe, it might make someone rethink.
Graham, it appears that, like Garrison Keillor, you have your own Substack. May I suggest that you follow the example he sets in his writing and provide clear and irrefutable reasons for the strong opinions you express. It's simply not enough for you to appear in these comments insisting that he not express political opinions, calling him crazy, telling him to give his head a shake, demanding that he wake up, etc., etc. When you don't address anything he's written in his essays you simply come across as a crackpot. P.S. May your cats and dogs remain safe from the barbecues of Haitian migrants.
You’re wrong about where we get our information. You’re spouting the narrative you hear from the MSM. I haven’t watched Fox or any so called conservative news in years. I also don’t not listen to or read or watch anything from the MSM with the exception of the WSJ which is turning into NYT lite. There are tons of independent sources here on substack exposing the lies everyday of the NYT NBC CNN etc. that you admit to getting your facts from known liars is all we need to know.
I notice no actual support for your ideas other than other strange believers...so where do they come from? You just believe? It must be true? Science measures reality as does evidence. So what do you use to describe reality?
The Earth is 4.54 billion years old., the universe three time this. Climate change is due to increased Carbon Dioxide in our shared atmosphere, as is ocean acidification.
If your fealty to a preconceived belief overcomes demonstrable facts, this isn't a shared reality.
It’s not them because I don’t watch…it’s just we share the same facts from many sources, and facts win out! Sorry…if you have to believe something, that’s fine, some people do. I don’t have to follow anyone as such…I do admire those who ground their opinions in practice, skills and experience. So Donny—a professional BS artist, isn’t my idea of brave.
Strange question…but I’ll bit. Gender is complex, 80% of gender surgeries are male breast reductions. And I know folks who feel more comfortable presenting as males and females or even neither. I’m for that for sure. I do wish we had a clearer middle ground, less sexism, less hate, and less puritanical fear. What I won’t do is Willy-Billy impose what I think on them if they are not hurting anyone. So yes. But you are confusing the gender your share with your doctor vs how you present yourself out in the world. Genetics is not gender.
Oh so you've got real class in addition to being a conspiracy theorist. The only justifications you've ever presented for your wacko views are your ridiculous, angry obsessions over the "mainstream media" and wanting to be the arbiter of other people's gender. It's sick, and yet someone pointing out that you're expressing the opinion of QAnon cult members is "such an ignorant idiot."
What you are saying is that you are becoming more and more radicalized. This when you have already shown time and again in your comments here that you are a conspiracy theorist who is not to be taken seriously. One example is your ridiculous claim that RFK Jr. is the only politician willing to tell us the truth. I suppose you are giddy that Trump wants to align our country with the murderous and lying kleptocratic dictator of Russia. Despite the name you've chosen for yourself here you have willingly left reality, and no good will ever come of it.
Thank you. This is so well said. The list does go on, and the rest of the items on the list are similarly disqualifying and unacceptable. For example: The current president of the United States claimed loudly, on television, that Haitian migrants are eating our cats and dogs. He demanded to see Barack Obama's birth certificate. He has never apologized for calling for the Central Park Five to be executed. And still the list goes on. We are truly dealing with a cult, and his cult members are deluded. The country will never unite under Trump. It absolutely should never unite under such a person--only in opposition to him and his ilk.
Give me a break. You’re so unkind to people you do not know. Do you have any idea of how hard it is to type with your two thumbs and with the auto correct functioning many grammatical errors are made. But a kind person would understand that and not use it to degenerate another person
I think you mean denigrate, not degenerate. In any case, we are in a national crisis because of conspiracy theorists like you. Kindness is not at all my goal when communicating with such people. People on the whole have been way too patient with all your bullshit and lies and endangering the rest of us, in my opinion. I hope you have people in your personal life who are reaching the end of their rope with it as well and can help you understand. Please listen to them. I was just giving you a hard time about the autocorrect. The conspiracy theories, the lies, the obsession over other people's gender and the embracing of authoritarianism if not fascism are what I'm really addressing.
Also, since you're so concerned about kindness, what about kindness to the Haitian community Trump falsely accused of eating people's pets? What about kindness to the people whose gender you would presume to arbitrate? Apparently unkindness that seriously hurts people concerns you a lot less than unkindness over your spelling and grammar.
Does that mean you haven’t seen the video of them actually barbecuing one ? I have and it’s part of their culture so why is it so hard for you not to accept it???
I should have read your Writers Digest before that first comment. "It was on this day in 1933 that the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slight majority in the Reichstag. Within three weeks, the Nazi-dominated Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers and ended the Weimar Republic in Germany." Coincidence? I think not!
You never cared about cops when they were defunding them. I trust you preferred the degeneracy of the Biden administration? I doubt Trump will have men dressing as women baring their chests on the White House lawn.
No one "defunded cops." The "degeneracy of the Biden administration"--what a ridiculous thing to write. I guess you're another person willing to sell the U.S.A. down the river unless you get to be the final arbiter of everyone's gender. Why don't you worry about your own gender? Did you have to have anyone help you with that? Why do you think you need to weigh in on other people's gender, and why is it so important to you that you're willing to back a corrupt liar, felon and insurrectionist? There are things more important than your disapproving of people's gender identity, you know.
Democrat women are wearing pink outfits for Trump’s address. It’s ironic, isn’t it? Apparently this is some kind of symbol of unity for women’s rights.
Not one single Democrat voted for the bill to protect women’s sports from men. Incredible.
I know, Graham!!!!! You are so right. Thank you for exuding so much positivity all on your own, and for always putting Garrison Keillor in his place about his inappropriate opinions--he should give his head a good shake and WAKE UP, just like you said!!!! Thanks again! I'm almost tempted to take a glance at your Substack
Oh my gosh you don't say. They're actually wearing pink outfits? OMG OMG that is so ironic, I can't even believe it. P.S. And the Haitians are barbecuing Republican dogs and cats!! STOP THEM NOW, LOCK THEM UP IN GUANTANAMO!!! Some of them are not even conforming to gender norms!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We definitely need a strongman/dictator because THEY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO WORK OUT THEIR GENDER ON THEIR OWN. God bless!!!
My wife and I watched the current space occupier last night blathering on in a place where real past leaders have talked about the state of the country. Last night I felt sad, angry and afraid. Imagine, afraid of my government. The words coming from his mouth bore no relationship to reality, yet the GOP side ate it up. The congressman who was removed showed more courage than any one of them has ever experienced, yet he was mocked. I am sad, angry and afraid for my grandchildren and all of the children who will not know real leadership if this man is allowed to remain.
Since I was a kid, I was always told that the saying was “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people”, and that P.T. Barnum said it. It’s never too late to learn, I guess. Thanks, Garrison!
I like your humor but I do not like your politics. You are a dyed in the wool liberal at the very least.
You turn many people off by your vulgar tirade against a man you really do not know anything about except what you read or listen to from the far left.
Trump was only "convicted" in a far left jurisdiction, actually having broken no law. Said reasons were made up to fit the situation. When the Appeal is finally finished, Trump will be exonerated due to the falsity of the charges, etc. Right now, even the leftist Judge, has put it on hold!
Sky Blue, except for the Chemtrails developing to look like Sierras Clouds. Are yours Black?
BTW, my father was a Battle of the Bulge Veteran too! Earned his Purple Heart there. And, a die Hard Republican as well. Which, I am NOT!
My generation is the 1st where not every one of the males, including in-laws, all uncles and Grandfathers, since the mid 1700s, were all veterans. Including a couple of lifers. Only one of my 4 brothers is also a Veteran. And, we've a few of the female cousins beginning in WWII whom are/were Veterans as well, even in the generation following ours.
👍Right! By a quite liberal inner-city set of jurors given several different ways to convict him, with all of those separate ways boiling down to a conviction on several different irrelevant points. All I can say, just wait and see how it turns out in the end.
Even, the New York State Supreme Court wishes it had never happened and don't look forward to having to overturn it. Far too many biased connections in the lower court, up to the New York Attorney General!
Bruce, your Russian accent is shining through, as usual. Once again you have crawled out from under your rock to express some truly bizarre opinions. May your dogs and cats never fall victim to Haitian barbecue or scary gender ideas. Stay loony!
I know him from his own words. He thinks he's greater than George Washington. He thought January 6 was a love fest. He thinks Canada is part of the U.S. I don't need to listen farther.
Garrison you must only listen to left side info. I behoove you to broaden your reach and actually look at the other side. I have listened to both sides for many years and the Democratic party has gone over the cliff since the time of JFK. It seems you have bought into the narrative a little too deeply. I still love your humor. I love you radio show. I listened to it for years. That is a masterpiece!
Honestly, how can Garrison be so mean in response to all your kindness, Graham? Still, you need to work on presenting rational arguments. Maybe next week.
yeah, this the pain of the drug treatment to off the fear and loathing, the dopamine drips of the rants and fact-free fears of Faux. It's never easy to kick drugs but things will be brighter soon. Trust in truth.
I listen to what Trump actually says, and I watch what he actually does, and I know for sure that he is a liar and a con man who cares for nothing except whatever benefits himself and soothes the gaping wound that is his ego.
I don’t understand how anyone can see the same and think, “that’s my guy.”
I don’t need intermediaries to understand exactly what the truth is about Trump.
Evidence, Graham, evidence. We need to work on backing up our claims in our writing. Remember: fact-check and present evidence that is irrefutable and verifiable. Then Martin will have no choice but to stop being so darn mean!!!!!
Garrison, you touched on many things and your comments that made sense to me. I will reread what you wrote...when I have more time. Eg. I find myself conflicted about Ukraine. We need the
war to end....which Trump talks about. If it doesn't, Russia will keep on ruining the country and people will die on both sides. But his approach?
The arguments from those in this thread who are advocates for Donald Trump are getting tiresome.
My father, like many, fought in WWlI-specifically, The Battle of the Bulge. He was a die hard Republican. He did not fight for the country to be led by a wannabe autocratic.
Apparently all on the right are comfortable with our new alignment with Putin. I grew up believing never to trust Russia. Silly me! Who knew that I am the enemy?!
The Nazi’s rose to power because their propaganda promoted ‘us against them.’
No one is born a bigot-they become one. Trump has given voice to an element in society that has always existed, but has been held in check by society striving to set standards based in liberty and justice for all.
As we witness the denigration of our rights and our constitution, we are also seeing firsthand how easily those on the right have bought into Trump’s party line. Manipulation on steroids!
Garrison has a great book that reminds us that the GOP wasn't always this insane! They were the shop owners who were on the school board to make sure the money was well spent...not working on banning books. And you don't have go back the get to Eisenhower, president when I was born, who too wanted effective and efficient...but the goals were shared for the most part by the nation. And even Nixon created the EPA that the radical court just disabled.
And now they're gleefully making up lies about 200-year-old Social Security recipients. It makes one recall how Trump's doctor claimed that our liar-in-chief was so healthy he'd probably live to 200. I can't remember--did I mention the repugnant lies about Haitians eating our dogs and our cats?
Thank you, Heidi! This needs to be said over and over. And I think we all need to say it to our family members and friends who need to hear it. This flirtation with fascism has been going on for far too long, and I think it's obvious that avoiding confrontations over what some of us are inexplicably still calling "politics" is not going to be the answer to saving our democracy.
“We don’t expect the leader of our country to be hopelessly trashy.”
.. but since this is (unbelievably and tragically) his second go-around, who could’ve expected otherwise?😞
Trashy is when you do not have the character and dignity to stand up and applaud for a 13 year old young man of color who survived brain cancer…trashy is when supposed adults act like idiots and sit on their liberal asses and show the children of America exactly how not to behave in public…trashy is voting against women in favor of transgender men who have no right or privilege to infringe on the life and work of real women and girls…trashy is favoring illegals over veterans…trashy is being a fake Jew and doing nothing for Jews…trashy is being against making America great again just because it is someone else’s idea and you can only hate that someone else…
"Trashy" is basically how "our" President; incidentally elected with both the overwhelming majority of both the Electoral & Popular Votes by We-The-People; described the forever lost souls on the sorry left side last night! They are so dug into their indoctrination agenda, with their heads so buried in it, it's hard to believe that they can still even breath. Isn't it amazing how they "hate" so much, that they refuse to actually "see" that what is happening is NOT a detriment, and is actually to even their benefit! Oh! For a "Dislike", or "Lost Soul" Button!
Amen
Define how 28% of potential voters is a vast majority?
And, it looks as IF that majority of 28% of eligible Voters that actually voted, thereby giving him the 314 Electoral Votes, doesn't really mean anything to you! 👍 As long as "you" can come up with at least some denigration. It's NOT his fault that more people have decided not to participate in voting due to the massive election fraud anymore. Nor, is it his fault that the same goes for your fellow leftists that failed to Vote in an even smaller percentage!
no, just doesn't represent 'a mandate'...that seems so important to the most radical Right, the folks at the 2025 plan of the HF that hurts Americans, carried by someone who claimed he had never heard of 2025...he is awash in lies, he lied last night like most of us breath!
You well represent those who actually live by and believe the lies of your choice, mostly from like believers and the MSM! Have a good day, IF you are able! I have a life.
I'm not convinced.
For the record: Old Orange received a plurality, not majority, of 49.7% with 77.3 million votes to the Wokester's 48.2% and 75.3 million. And the electoral count for OO was 312, not 314. One doesn't need to be a quant to see that the term "mandate" does not apply electorally.
What you should consider as the "Mandate", is that because of Trump, the Republicans now have the Majority in both the House and Senate of Congress!!! 👍 Is that not a Mandate?
Nyet!
Control of all branches of government…that is how!
"Trashy" is inviting the widow and two daughters of the man who was killed at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and then drawing all attention back to yourself and declaring that "God" saved YOUR life to "make America great again." So....the rest of that sentence would be, "but YOUR husband/father didn't matter to God like I did."
"Trashy" is exploiting the pathos of a 15 year old with brain cancer wearing a police uniform while pardoning the savagery of those who brutalized real police officers trying to defend the capitol and elected officials, including those who are blindly loyal to you.
Blindness and deafness are a real pandemic in this country these days.
Please, take a few minutes of your lives and watch this; it will help you understand what is happening to you, to the country; it won't hurt you or offend you in any way, but it might enlighten you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ZaXpIn2fg
Thanks for showing us your thinking.
You are very welcome
28% of potential voters voted for him..
Trashy is firing young workers for no reason who are getting ready for helping us reduce the threat of fires.
Trashy is the glee in their pain!
Trashy is being supportive of lies and fear that hurt people like saying that 100 year old are getting Social Security!
Trashy is Donny-John and the rest of Musky Sewer Circus!
Trashy seeking god-like retribution on his perceived enemies!
Trashy is the threatening of Zelenskyy and his people in favor of the murderous Putin!
Trashy is Donny committing 34 felonies!
Here's the deal--Christians have been warned that a man like this, who looks fair but feels foul, might trying to fool you...just saying.
Faux/Fuax, Not really News, lies about vets and immigrants..most undocumented people arrived on visas and over stayed (like the Musky-Man)...and they build our houses, clean our houses, take care of our families...and they commit fewer crimes, as percentage, than do white folks. So get a grip!
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I assume that your memory has failed because you seem to be oblivious about the trashiness from the GOP during previous State of the Union speeches.
Calling out “you lie!”. And of course the performances of the idiot sisters MTG and Boebert, And the failure to applaud when the speaker is not a Republican.
How did you forget? I sure didn’t. What goes around, comes around.
By the way, how can a party that raises MTG to positions of leadership ever expect respect?
Because we won! Deal with it!
We are "dealing with it." And so are you and so will we all. As Rick Wilson wrote, "Everything Trump Touches Dies." As the member of Canada's Parliament said, "Everything Trump Touches Turns to Crap." You are witnessing the truth of those declarations with each passing day, but your odd sense of victory, "we won," in the face of destruction and death must comfort you while everything that made this country actually special and (in the true sense of the word) awesome is being ruined. Couldn't you and those like you have just sent all your money, your health, your hope and dreams to the organized crime group now in power without having to force all the rest of us to do the same? It is the foundational sadism of this whole mob, the enjoyment of the suffering of others, that has dragged all of us into your world. You "won" - what exactly? The "pleasure" of watching hundreds of thousands of decent, hard-working civil servants become unemployed because of the whims of idiotic sadistic criminals? The "pleasure" of knowing that millions of Americans, old, young, babies, will die because a cruel, vile, heroin-addict, brain-worm infected, serial predator and adulterer, unscientific idiot has the power over once-genius American health and science? The "pleasure" of living through the acceleration of global changes that bring floods, violent storms, fires, destruction and death? The "pleasure" of scarcity of basic foods and goods in once plentiful marketplaces?
You "won" you say. You lost and we all lost and the difference between you and intelligent people is that intelligent people know what has been lost and we are mourning it. Mr. Keillor keeps describing ways in which he is transcending any of the darker moods, but for many of us "out here" that just isn't happening. Maybe we need more rhubarb pie. Spring is coming - we hope - and so will rhubarb. Hope springs eternal....
Chill
How does it feel to be a cheerleader for the overthrow of our government and the destruction of our country. It is horrifyingly intriguing to wonder how so many of you came to hate this country so much that it arouses you, seems to thrill you and your ilk, to celebrate its decline and degradation. And do not issue any of your mindless, truly stupid, "orders" to me or anyone else here ("chill"). You are here only to cause trouble but you do represent some sort of un-American failed education result, regardless of your source, backing or motivation. As one of your lunatic leaders might say, he of the heroin-addicted, brain-worm, sexual predator resume, and borrowing from Shakespeare, "a pox on you." And "pox" usually causes fever, so, you know: chill.. Or, call upon your spray-painted fake gold new Jesus to cure what ails you.
Great…we are getting the real America back…where girls play sports against girls…immigration laws are enforced…egg suckers have to work for a living…etc, etc, etc.
You want ice with that Koolaid?
“…liberal asses……fake Jew…”
Tsk tsk
What would Jesus think?
He would pray for them both to change.
Jesus was a liberal.
If he were to return you originalists would crucify him all over again.
He will return in all His glory…
Trashy is when you use a 13 year old brain cancer survivor as a political prop while your party suspends and/or cancels U.S. backed funding for organizations that provide lifesaving care and medicine for children and babies in other countries. Trashy is when a supposed adult congressman yells out “You lie!” at the President of the United States during a State of the Union address, showing the children of America exactly how not to behave in public. Trashy is trivializing the discrimination and violence faced by transgender people because it’s easy to vilify those who are different and use them as scapegoats to justify your sense of normalcy. Trashy is repeating talking points that have no basis in reality other than the fact that small-minded people will believe anything as long as the misinformation is repeated enough. Trashy is unwavering support for a leader of the Jewish people who allowed October 7th to occur without questioning how or why it happened in the first place. Trashy is believing that America needs to be restored to some prior iteration of itself when that past history includes genocide, slavery, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Trashy is turning every conversation, comment, and/or response into a platform to defend your own moral confusion and delusion. If GK was Musk and Substack was X, you (PoppiRowe) would have been blocked and banished to Truth Social long ago.
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He was not…he was an independent…
I just read that Trump is deporting 240,000 Ukrainians back to a war zone. They are not dependent on us for support, just for a safe place to wait out the war.
This is mere cruelty and a favor to another dictator.
Who do you think Jesus would pray to change?
If you support this anti-Christian anti-human cruelty and still call yourself a Christian, you are a fraud.
How do you feel about this? If you can square this circle you ain’t no Christian. You may not even be human.
Jesus would weep for you.
“he was an independent”. You think you are quite the wit, but you are really a fake Christian and quite the troll.
I can sure get your panties in a wad…it is good cheerful fun…
So the fake Christian, in replying to serious questions, says, “no comment”.
I do not think you have ever raised a serious question on this thread…you are the typical name calling, demeaning liberal who is not capable of having a true dialogue…as for my Christianity Jesus has taken care of that and I could give a flying flip what you think…you are the worst of the worst…and the war will be over before any Ukrainians get deported…
If you do not think I have raised any serious questions, your reading skills are as bad as your ethics. And do I detect some twisted panties?
Do you think it is in line with Christian morality to deport civilians back to a war zone? A serious question.
And don’t fall back on Jesus. He may decide your soul isn’t worth it. And I bet you do give a damn what I think, or you wouldn’t insist on denying it.
So you blocked me, fake Christian, who tries to hide behind Jesus. Now you have more time to examine that soul of yours. And to wonder why you are afraid to answer my serious and simple question.
Instead of focusing on my panties, dude, you should be focused on the state of your immortal soul, because if you aren’t, you are a disgrace.
Jesus is my Lord and Savior and you do not need to concern yourself with my immortal soul…focus on yours…
Garrison, do you really believe NPR will put you back on the radio just because you are pandering to the political left? Alternately, did you get paid for this? I can't believe I and my family listened to you for 20 years. The only person who died on Jan. 6th was Ashley Babbit, a unarmed veteran who was shot by a police officer with a history of professional misconduct. The doors to the Capitol were left wide open (see surveillance videos) in a classic case of entrapment. There is no way you do not know this. I have stuck up for you for years to a number of people who have stopped listening to you, but now I don't trust you.
Yet you trust the liar in chief. Odd.
How did you reach that conclusion? Let me know.
They will never believe you they get their information from the liars at NPR or PBS CNN or MSNBC etc. Mr Keillor had a good gig going till he turned into a liberal liar. The folks in Lake Woebegone are sad in how he turned out.
Why not use your real name, Reality?
Garrison Keillor
I'm, sorry your family wasted 20 years on my Marxist Communist show about the left-wing radicals of Lake Wobegon. I hope you have your TV locked to Fox News. Your version of the Love Fest at the Capitol varies somewhat from the truth. There were barricades and the mob attacked law enforcement. Take another look. Bye
I don't own a TV and if I did I wouldn't use it to watch Fox News. I do own a radio and have listened to it for years. including your show. I didn't call you a Marxist or Communist. I'd guess you are closer to a White. Christian Patriarch than you think you are.
Judging from your comments, whatever you've been listening to on the radio must be even worse than Fox News, purveyor of the Big Lie. P.S. Have you taken measures to protect your pets from hungry Haitians?
Who needs to engage with ideas when you can disparge unapproved information sources and make ad hominen attacks? I suppose if something isn't reported in the New York Times it didn't really appen? What I listened to on the radio was Prarire Home Companion and I noticed that, over the years, as it became more poltical it became less funny.
You would be well advised to drop the conspiracy theories and QAnon talking points.
Right on cue, here comes the name calling. Well, "sticks and stones will break my bones but names shall never hurt me. "
Really? Wow! I saw the footage, the people overcoming the police, armed, and watched them rampage inside and outside, throughout the capital...this is where we stand. You believe something to be true and belittle all others folks who disagree...like Donny and Putin. I favor the brave.
Brave....really? On Jan. 6th Officer Michael Byrd shot an unarmed woman in the neck - a 12 year air force veteran named Asheley Babbit - and killed her. That's bravery? This guy was previously investigated for leaving his firearm unattended in a public bathroom. Byrd is walking around free today. Meanwhile Ashley Babbit doesn't even have a Wikipedia page to document her life - I wonder why?
How do you "know" these things when, as you claim, you didn't "see" any of it because, as you claim, you don't have a TV? The rest of us DID see what happened, to our horror, and we KNOW the truth. What you are spewing is lies, falsehood, propaganda and dangerous anti-American un-reality; in other words, in clinical terms, psychosis. Like a cult or any kind of brainwashing, there is a collective psychosis in America and it has put all the rest of us under the control of raving, dangerous lunatics who hold tremendous power.
Congradulations. You must be a professional psychiatrist and very highly trained that you can diagnose my mental state ao accurately from a couple of sentences that I wrote. Your talents are wasted on the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt
Didn't Tocqueville conclude that Democracy in America worked because simple folks got involved and lead based on local and common knowledge? I wonder what he would say today.
It hurts my soul to see these comments from these Trump supporters because I feel certain that so many of them are kind people who love their families and friends and their country. But I also know that they get their "news" from Fox, Newsmax and right wing radio and won't budge from those silos to see what is happening to the country they love. The NY Times' fact check of last night's speech was so long that I only made it halfway through before I ran out of time. How can people support this person who lies like breathing, is an adjudicated rapist, a convicted felon and has put in charge of our government an unelected bureaucrat who is giving 20 year olds unfettered access to our most personal and sensitive information? (And ridiculously, last night, Trump railed against unelected bureaucrats.) This man who has alienated our closest allies and bullied a hero who gave up his country's nuclear weapons in exchange for security and now is denying him that very guarantee unless he grovels to him and to Putin? This person who has cut off aid to starving children in Sudan, cut off medical research of cancer, looks to strip millions of American of their health insurance? And the list goes on and on. Keep speaking your truth, Garrison. Maybe, just maybe, it might make someone rethink.
You really are crazy in your thinking. Give your head a shake and wake up!
Graham, it appears that, like Garrison Keillor, you have your own Substack. May I suggest that you follow the example he sets in his writing and provide clear and irrefutable reasons for the strong opinions you express. It's simply not enough for you to appear in these comments insisting that he not express political opinions, calling him crazy, telling him to give his head a shake, demanding that he wake up, etc., etc. When you don't address anything he's written in his essays you simply come across as a crackpot. P.S. May your cats and dogs remain safe from the barbecues of Haitian migrants.
You’re wrong about where we get our information. You’re spouting the narrative you hear from the MSM. I haven’t watched Fox or any so called conservative news in years. I also don’t not listen to or read or watch anything from the MSM with the exception of the WSJ which is turning into NYT lite. There are tons of independent sources here on substack exposing the lies everyday of the NYT NBC CNN etc. that you admit to getting your facts from known liars is all we need to know.
I notice no actual support for your ideas other than other strange believers...so where do they come from? You just believe? It must be true? Science measures reality as does evidence. So what do you use to describe reality?
The Earth is 4.54 billion years old., the universe three time this. Climate change is due to increased Carbon Dioxide in our shared atmosphere, as is ocean acidification.
If your fealty to a preconceived belief overcomes demonstrable facts, this isn't a shared reality.
Oh and your brilliant answers are nothing but regurgitation of the MSM narrative
It’s not them because I don’t watch…it’s just we share the same facts from many sources, and facts win out! Sorry…if you have to believe something, that’s fine, some people do. I don’t have to follow anyone as such…I do admire those who ground their opinions in practice, skills and experience. So Donny—a professional BS artist, isn’t my idea of brave.
Can a man become a women by declaring it to be so?
Strange question…but I’ll bit. Gender is complex, 80% of gender surgeries are male breast reductions. And I know folks who feel more comfortable presenting as males and females or even neither. I’m for that for sure. I do wish we had a clearer middle ground, less sexism, less hate, and less puritanical fear. What I won’t do is Willy-Billy impose what I think on them if they are not hurting anyone. So yes. But you are confusing the gender your share with your doctor vs how you present yourself out in the world. Genetics is not gender.
Let me guess, QAnon is your reliable source!
Your such an ignorant idiot
That should be you’re such an ignorant idiot.
Your the one with the Qanon agenda
Once again, you are or you’re-
Your implies possession.
Basic grammar.
Please expand on this. How does Heidi have anything to do with the QAnon agenda?
Oh so you've got real class in addition to being a conspiracy theorist. The only justifications you've ever presented for your wacko views are your ridiculous, angry obsessions over the "mainstream media" and wanting to be the arbiter of other people's gender. It's sick, and yet someone pointing out that you're expressing the opinion of QAnon cult members is "such an ignorant idiot."
Takes one to know one.
It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to know one. Not at all.
What you are saying is that you are becoming more and more radicalized. This when you have already shown time and again in your comments here that you are a conspiracy theorist who is not to be taken seriously. One example is your ridiculous claim that RFK Jr. is the only politician willing to tell us the truth. I suppose you are giddy that Trump wants to align our country with the murderous and lying kleptocratic dictator of Russia. Despite the name you've chosen for yourself here you have willingly left reality, and no good will ever come of it.
Thank you. This is so well said. The list does go on, and the rest of the items on the list are similarly disqualifying and unacceptable. For example: The current president of the United States claimed loudly, on television, that Haitian migrants are eating our cats and dogs. He demanded to see Barack Obama's birth certificate. He has never apologized for calling for the Central Park Five to be executed. And still the list goes on. We are truly dealing with a cult, and his cult members are deluded. The country will never unite under Trump. It absolutely should never unite under such a person--only in opposition to him and his ilk.
Your truly unhinged. Go back under your MSNBC rock and leave the rest of us alone
reality, didn't Heidi explain to you the difference between "your" and "you're"? Go back and read all the comments again, please.
Give me a break. You’re so unkind to people you do not know. Do you have any idea of how hard it is to type with your two thumbs and with the auto correct functioning many grammatical errors are made. But a kind person would understand that and not use it to degenerate another person
I think you mean denigrate, not degenerate. In any case, we are in a national crisis because of conspiracy theorists like you. Kindness is not at all my goal when communicating with such people. People on the whole have been way too patient with all your bullshit and lies and endangering the rest of us, in my opinion. I hope you have people in your personal life who are reaching the end of their rope with it as well and can help you understand. Please listen to them. I was just giving you a hard time about the autocorrect. The conspiracy theories, the lies, the obsession over other people's gender and the embracing of authoritarianism if not fascism are what I'm really addressing.
Also, since you're so concerned about kindness, what about kindness to the Haitian community Trump falsely accused of eating people's pets? What about kindness to the people whose gender you would presume to arbitrate? Apparently unkindness that seriously hurts people concerns you a lot less than unkindness over your spelling and grammar.
Does that mean you haven’t seen the video of them actually barbecuing one ? I have and it’s part of their culture so why is it so hard for you not to accept it???
Oh I forgot so do the Chinese. In fact I had a side gig selling cats to them.
I should have read your Writers Digest before that first comment. "It was on this day in 1933 that the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slight majority in the Reichstag. Within three weeks, the Nazi-dominated Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers and ended the Weimar Republic in Germany." Coincidence? I think not!
You never cared about cops when they were defunding them. I trust you preferred the degeneracy of the Biden administration? I doubt Trump will have men dressing as women baring their chests on the White House lawn.
No one "defunded cops." The "degeneracy of the Biden administration"--what a ridiculous thing to write. I guess you're another person willing to sell the U.S.A. down the river unless you get to be the final arbiter of everyone's gender. Why don't you worry about your own gender? Did you have to have anyone help you with that? Why do you think you need to weigh in on other people's gender, and why is it so important to you that you're willing to back a corrupt liar, felon and insurrectionist? There are things more important than your disapproving of people's gender identity, you know.
Democrat women are wearing pink outfits for Trump’s address. It’s ironic, isn’t it? Apparently this is some kind of symbol of unity for women’s rights.
Not one single Democrat voted for the bill to protect women’s sports from men. Incredible.
Unfortunately the left is unable to think a positive thought on their own!
I know, Graham!!!!! You are so right. Thank you for exuding so much positivity all on your own, and for always putting Garrison Keillor in his place about his inappropriate opinions--he should give his head a good shake and WAKE UP, just like you said!!!! Thanks again! I'm almost tempted to take a glance at your Substack
Oh my gosh you don't say. They're actually wearing pink outfits? OMG OMG that is so ironic, I can't even believe it. P.S. And the Haitians are barbecuing Republican dogs and cats!! STOP THEM NOW, LOCK THEM UP IN GUANTANAMO!!! Some of them are not even conforming to gender norms!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We definitely need a strongman/dictator because THEY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO WORK OUT THEIR GENDER ON THEIR OWN. God bless!!!
My wife and I watched the current space occupier last night blathering on in a place where real past leaders have talked about the state of the country. Last night I felt sad, angry and afraid. Imagine, afraid of my government. The words coming from his mouth bore no relationship to reality, yet the GOP side ate it up. The congressman who was removed showed more courage than any one of them has ever experienced, yet he was mocked. I am sad, angry and afraid for my grandchildren and all of the children who will not know real leadership if this man is allowed to remain.
Thank you again for brave and sensible words. They seem to have struck a chord. Maybe that's a good sign. Let's hope so.
Since I was a kid, I was always told that the saying was “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people”, and that P.T. Barnum said it. It’s never too late to learn, I guess. Thanks, Garrison!
the first sentence of gk's mencken "quotation" does not appear anywhere in mencken's published work
The quote that GK gives is something of a paraphrase. The precise quote is:
“No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."[2]
From Mencken, H. L. (1926 September 19) “Notes on Journalism”, in Chicago Tribune
I like your humor but I do not like your politics. You are a dyed in the wool liberal at the very least.
You turn many people off by your vulgar tirade against a man you really do not know anything about except what you read or listen to from the far left.
So you really believe he is greater than George Washington, as he said last night?
I didn't say that. Do you think it was a good idea to let all the criminals come into this country under the Biden administration?
The criminal is the guy who spoke to Congress last night. Look it up.
You didn't answer my question Sir>
Your question is based on a false assumption, just like your own existence. Your parents expected to create a rational person.
And they produced one, certainly more rational than what you are putting out here!
Trump was only "convicted" in a far left jurisdiction, actually having broken no law. Said reasons were made up to fit the situation. When the Appeal is finally finished, Trump will be exonerated due to the falsity of the charges, etc. Right now, even the leftist Judge, has put it on hold!
What is the color of the sky in your world?
Sky Blue, except for the Chemtrails developing to look like Sierras Clouds. Are yours Black?
BTW, my father was a Battle of the Bulge Veteran too! Earned his Purple Heart there. And, a die Hard Republican as well. Which, I am NOT!
My generation is the 1st where not every one of the males, including in-laws, all uncles and Grandfathers, since the mid 1700s, were all veterans. Including a couple of lifers. Only one of my 4 brothers is also a Veteran. And, we've a few of the female cousins beginning in WWII whom are/were Veterans as well, even in the generation following ours.
Bruce, you're talking silliness. Your hero was convicted by an American jury.
👍Right! By a quite liberal inner-city set of jurors given several different ways to convict him, with all of those separate ways boiling down to a conviction on several different irrelevant points. All I can say, just wait and see how it turns out in the end.
Even, the New York State Supreme Court wishes it had never happened and don't look forward to having to overturn it. Far too many biased connections in the lower court, up to the New York Attorney General!
You mean a corrupt kangaroo court with a very corrupt judge. Give me a break Garrison. You are too smart to be a parot of the crazy left.
Bruce, your Russian accent is shining through, as usual. Once again you have crawled out from under your rock to express some truly bizarre opinions. May your dogs and cats never fall victim to Haitian barbecue or scary gender ideas. Stay loony!
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I know him from his own words. He thinks he's greater than George Washington. He thought January 6 was a love fest. He thinks Canada is part of the U.S. I don't need to listen farther.
Garrison you must only listen to left side info. I behoove you to broaden your reach and actually look at the other side. I have listened to both sides for many years and the Democratic party has gone over the cliff since the time of JFK. It seems you have bought into the narrative a little too deeply. I still love your humor. I love you radio show. I listened to it for years. That is a masterpiece!
Graham, you're talking nonsense. You wouoldn't know a masterpiece if it bit you in the butt. It's insulting to think that you enjoyed my show.
That is very mean spirited Garrison. It is also an invalidation of your own work.
Honestly, how can Garrison be so mean in response to all your kindness, Graham? Still, you need to work on presenting rational arguments. Maybe next week.
yeah, this the pain of the drug treatment to off the fear and loathing, the dopamine drips of the rants and fact-free fears of Faux. It's never easy to kick drugs but things will be brighter soon. Trust in truth.
I listen to what Trump actually says, and I watch what he actually does, and I know for sure that he is a liar and a con man who cares for nothing except whatever benefits himself and soothes the gaping wound that is his ego.
I don’t understand how anyone can see the same and think, “that’s my guy.”
I don’t need intermediaries to understand exactly what the truth is about Trump.
I think your hearing is actually quite crooked!
Evidence, Graham, evidence. We need to work on backing up our claims in our writing. Remember: fact-check and present evidence that is irrefutable and verifiable. Then Martin will have no choice but to stop being so darn mean!!!!!
Garrison, you touched on many things and your comments that made sense to me. I will reread what you wrote...when I have more time. Eg. I find myself conflicted about Ukraine. We need the
war to end....which Trump talks about. If it doesn't, Russia will keep on ruining the country and people will die on both sides. But his approach?
He wants peace, not another Afghanistan.
I miss Posts to the Host
The arguments from those in this thread who are advocates for Donald Trump are getting tiresome.
My father, like many, fought in WWlI-specifically, The Battle of the Bulge. He was a die hard Republican. He did not fight for the country to be led by a wannabe autocratic.
Apparently all on the right are comfortable with our new alignment with Putin. I grew up believing never to trust Russia. Silly me! Who knew that I am the enemy?!
The Nazi’s rose to power because their propaganda promoted ‘us against them.’
No one is born a bigot-they become one. Trump has given voice to an element in society that has always existed, but has been held in check by society striving to set standards based in liberty and justice for all.
As we witness the denigration of our rights and our constitution, we are also seeing firsthand how easily those on the right have bought into Trump’s party line. Manipulation on steroids!
Ignorance is alive and well.
Garrison has a great book that reminds us that the GOP wasn't always this insane! They were the shop owners who were on the school board to make sure the money was well spent...not working on banning books. And you don't have go back the get to Eisenhower, president when I was born, who too wanted effective and efficient...but the goals were shared for the most part by the nation. And even Nixon created the EPA that the radical court just disabled.
And now they're gleefully making up lies about 200-year-old Social Security recipients. It makes one recall how Trump's doctor claimed that our liar-in-chief was so healthy he'd probably live to 200. I can't remember--did I mention the repugnant lies about Haitians eating our dogs and our cats?
Thank you, Heidi! This needs to be said over and over. And I think we all need to say it to our family members and friends who need to hear it. This flirtation with fascism has been going on for far too long, and I think it's obvious that avoiding confrontations over what some of us are inexplicably still calling "politics" is not going to be the answer to saving our democracy.
You nailed it! I was just needing your words!