As you know from being a regular reader of my Substack, I am pessimistic (I think I am realistic). I see your scenario about Trump turning the midterm elections into an exercise in futility using (as I wrote about today) his control of the people with guns. Thanks as usual for commenting.
We're in agreement. Trump doesn't care about polls bc he's planning to deploy the military to stay in power, and his minions are on board. Violence is coming.
I have been reluctant to write about this ending in violence but, like you, I consider this to be a distinct possiblity.
I can see Trump ordering the military to deployed against protestors merely because they are occupying buildings, but certainly if there is a protest that degenerates into looting and violence.
During the winter our 12 year old grandaughter plays indoor soccer and on the way we drive past a large Oregon National Guard facility and see all the military vehicles. We've imagined a time in the not distant future when our National Guard is deployed to the Idaho border to keep their National Guard from attacking our state because we defy one or another Trump order.
I also see a major uncertainty as to what will happen if Trump wants to go all in on a Hitlerian takeover by declaring martial law and, as I wrote, using the military against any of his stateside enemies. Then we will have to see how many members of the armed forces are loyal to the Constitution of the president.
As you can tell from what I wrote today, I have reached the dismal conclusion that none of the other things optimists want to think can stop Trump will work and all we can hope for is a military coup where the governemt is taken over by force. Then top military officers will lead the country until it is stablized and there can be free elections.
Along with numerous other mental health professionals who have studied Trump for years, I have come to the conclusion that he has the personality of an Alolph Hitler and other cruel despots. Everything he has done, is currently doing, and plans to do, has been done before.
President Trump holds a 52 percent approval rating in after his first month back in the Oval Office, polling shows.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey found that 33 percent strongly approved of the president’s job performance, and 19 percent somewhat approved. Roughly 43 percent disapproved, with most expressing strong disapproval, and another 5 percent were undecided.
What this tells me aside from the obvious, which is that we are a deeply divided country, is that millions of people don't care about the country moving towards authoritarianism, if not worse. Others, 43% disapprove, most strongly so.
It is statistcally true that in any population half the people have a below average IQ, and many not only lack critical thinking ability and/or woefully uninformed. Some are gullible and live in a right-wing information bubble. Trump has mastered techniques of propaganda. He has said one thing that is true. He can sell anything, at leasts to many people.
I posted the Harvard Poll as a response to your statement, "The news was that Trump's favorability rating in the polls are horrible.". Now you change the subject and start writing about IQ.
As Dennis Prager has said, in response to the comment w/re living in a bubble, "we know what you know, but you don't know what we know."
To say that it is statistically true that half the population have below average IQ....you mean it's mathematically true, if the population follows a Bell Curve.
You must mean moving away from authoritarianism, not toward it. The FBI was running Twitter from the inside, people were being shut down all over the internet for misinformation, disinformation and the most hilarious Orwellian censorship tool called malinformation (true information the regime didn't like). USAID has been it turns out, the tool used by the CIA to fund over 6,000 "journalists worldwide, and over 55,000 NGOs.
So, as a Trump supporter, to borrow a quote from Musk, "I love Trump, as much as a straight man can love another man"
Once DumDum & company rejoice after their completion for successfully illigally removing illigal immigrants they will do the same with other groups of people, and with a compliant US military to assist - especially in Blue cities. I can see the military & militia groups being used to intimidate the midterm election polling stations, and taking over counting the votes. Conscription will be enacted as an excuse to round up younger people into internment camps. DumDum will definitely rig it to remain in power. Welcome to the Banana Republic of America. Hopefully Canada does not get dragged down with it.
Gasp, Martin, Martin, Oh Martin, that would be a misfortune actually. Canada is a wonderous nation. America only weakens its stature. Martin, Oh Martin. You silly little boy. Gasp.
No question Trump is planning on staying on as president for as long as he can. Third term be damned and the Supreme Court be damned too. He won’t care. He is president for life and we voted for this autocrat and most of us knew he was going to do this. There was no question that this was his intention. And his other plan is to divide up the world between himself, Putin and Xi. Putin gets Europe and Trump gets the western hemisphere- Greenland, Canada and whatever else he wants in South and Central America. We have capitulated America democracy, American freedom and American behavior. Instead we will have the cruelty and evil that stem from a psychopath like Trump and his chosen cronies.
You are in the very small percentage of democracy people who aren't grasping a straws of hope trying to maintain some optimism and keep from descending into a pit of anxiety and despair. I understand human nature being such that when faced with overwhelming fear denial is a good defense. But people like us, thankfully my partner, and a few others I read on Substack, are going to be better prepared emotionally when the country, and the world, falls apart. Thanks for your comment.
When President Trump leaves office in 2029 you'll simply ignore your 2025 bullshit comment. Get ready for 12 years, maybe more, of republicans in charge, not because of any dictatorial tendencies, but in all likelihood because the democrat party has collapsed. The democrat party cannot function in a free speech world, and with the collapse of the mainstream media, and the ascent of new media, the left's lies are almost instantly corrected.
Add up New Media's audience - it dwarfs the legacy media. Rogan, Tucker, Scott Adams, Doc Rich, Matt Taibbi, The Black Conservative, O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, Shellenberger, Adin Ross, Charlie Kirk, Dave Rubin, Dan Bongino, Candace Owen, Steve Bannon, et (many) al. Even that progressive idiot, Hillary Clinton, in a rare moment of telling the truth, said that "we have lost control"
Just the mere fact that you say that in support of an absolutely evil man who would commit genocide to free up Gaza shows what a despicably mean, stupid and ignorant fool you are. Today Trump created a video of what Gaza would look like after he and the Trump organization took it over. That video is like all the horrendous films that were created in Theresienstadt of how the Jews were being treated in the ‘labor camps’ ie concentration camps. That is what you think defines a good person. A person who does not align himself with Hitler and his thoughts and actions. You are so misguided it is sickening. Trump is a sick man. And he will bring America into a world conflagration that you and your ilk will not only be responsible for, but will pay the ultimate price for which I will laugh and be gleeful. You are a horribly ignorant dolt!
I agree. Most people see that there is some hope we can return to a normal way of life. I don’t think that Trump can be removed other than by force. With his replacement of senior offices in the military by individuals who no doubt agree with what he is doing that is going to be unlikely so we are to put it blandly - FUCKED! A horrifying thought, but as you say we cannot possibly blind ourselves to what is plainly there for us to see. As the son of Holocaust survivors I hate seeing what is happening and truly tremble for my own safety and future in this country that has turned so suddenly into the pariah I could never have imagined. I am only pleased my parents did not live to see this happen.
As a fellow Jew, born in 1944, although secular, I grew up immersed in a sense of identity related to an awareness of the Holocaust. None of my known ancesters died in the camps or survived them Unless they are Jews like some of the MAGA ones (and shame on them) any Jew should see that there are only superficial differences between Hitler and Trump. Hitler and the Nazi henchment were psychopaths and so is Trump and many of his henchmen. Hitler didn't care for ostentatious displays of wealth like Trump, but both usednand use cruelty to achieve their end goals. I don't know if Hitler was a sadist who relished inflicting pain. He may have demonized the Jews for poltical gain. Trump is a sadist. He demonizes people both for political gain and because he enjoys it. Regardless of small differences between the two, anyone who denies the similararities between Trump and Hitler, MAGA and the Nazis, has their head in the sand.
Yeah, Trump is just like Hitler, especially with the way he wants to deal with Israel's enemy, Hamas. And that he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. And his Jewish convert daughter. And Trump visiting the Wailing Wall. Just like Hitler.
You may want to speak with your therapist about the serious case of TDS you're suffering from.
Trump is like Hitler. Hitler worked with the Jewish militias in Palestine just as Trump is dealing with the war criminal Netanyahu and his rightist meshugena genocidal cabinet members. Jews can be Nazis too - there were plenty who collaborated with the Nazis to try to save their own skins. Mostly they perished too because you can’t work with cruel evil people whose thoughts are only of their own power and strength. Just like Trump and his acolytes. Witness Trump and Fuentes - can you trust a man who happily breaks bread with an obvious fascist? And Musk - yet another Nazi. He showed us that with his two salutes and support of the AFD in Germany. Trump moving the embassy was a meaningless move that only caused more anger and the fact that he has a “Jewish” daughter? What does that mean? What did mixed marriages or conversions mean to the Nazi’s. You clearly don’t know anything about how Nazis like Trump/Hitler behave. But I will smile when they come and take you away - because no one on our side will cry for you. You clearly have no shame, no moral values. And most importantly you are just an uneducated lout like all those fools that you listen to in the so called legacy media.
As you know from being a regular reader of my Substack, I am pessimistic (I think I am realistic). I see your scenario about Trump turning the midterm elections into an exercise in futility using (as I wrote about today) his control of the people with guns. Thanks as usual for commenting.
Everybody who has a subscription to the NY Times read Maureen Dowd's "Fail, Caesar"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/opinion/trump-king-third-term.html
If you don't have a subscription, here's a summary from RawStory:
'Far more dangerous': NY Times' Maureen Dowd shares terrifying realization
https://www.rawstory.com/king-trump-tyrant/
Like those commenting here, she "gets it."
We're in agreement. Trump doesn't care about polls bc he's planning to deploy the military to stay in power, and his minions are on board. Violence is coming.
I have been reluctant to write about this ending in violence but, like you, I consider this to be a distinct possiblity.
I can see Trump ordering the military to deployed against protestors merely because they are occupying buildings, but certainly if there is a protest that degenerates into looting and violence.
During the winter our 12 year old grandaughter plays indoor soccer and on the way we drive past a large Oregon National Guard facility and see all the military vehicles. We've imagined a time in the not distant future when our National Guard is deployed to the Idaho border to keep their National Guard from attacking our state because we defy one or another Trump order.
I also see a major uncertainty as to what will happen if Trump wants to go all in on a Hitlerian takeover by declaring martial law and, as I wrote, using the military against any of his stateside enemies. Then we will have to see how many members of the armed forces are loyal to the Constitution of the president.
As you can tell from what I wrote today, I have reached the dismal conclusion that none of the other things optimists want to think can stop Trump will work and all we can hope for is a military coup where the governemt is taken over by force. Then top military officers will lead the country until it is stablized and there can be free elections.
Along with numerous other mental health professionals who have studied Trump for years, I have come to the conclusion that he has the personality of an Alolph Hitler and other cruel despots. Everything he has done, is currently doing, and plans to do, has been done before.
Why do you delete conservate posts on your Substack?
“They Were Hiding THIS!” Michael Shellenberger UNCOVERS Dark Secret About USAID and The Deep State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK0h7khpuAA
Trump Earns One Of The Best Ratings He’s Ever Had In New Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestv/2025/02/24/trump-earns-one-of-the-best-ratings-hes-ever-had-in-new-harvard-capsharris-poll-dritan-nesho/
President Trump holds a 52 percent approval rating in after his first month back in the Oval Office, polling shows.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey found that 33 percent strongly approved of the president’s job performance, and 19 percent somewhat approved. Roughly 43 percent disapproved, with most expressing strong disapproval, and another 5 percent were undecided.
What this tells me aside from the obvious, which is that we are a deeply divided country, is that millions of people don't care about the country moving towards authoritarianism, if not worse. Others, 43% disapprove, most strongly so.
It is statistcally true that in any population half the people have a below average IQ, and many not only lack critical thinking ability and/or woefully uninformed. Some are gullible and live in a right-wing information bubble. Trump has mastered techniques of propaganda. He has said one thing that is true. He can sell anything, at leasts to many people.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5161231-trump-holds-52-percent-approval-rating-after-first-month-in-office/
I posted the Harvard Poll as a response to your statement, "The news was that Trump's favorability rating in the polls are horrible.". Now you change the subject and start writing about IQ.
As Dennis Prager has said, in response to the comment w/re living in a bubble, "we know what you know, but you don't know what we know."
To say that it is statistically true that half the population have below average IQ....you mean it's mathematically true, if the population follows a Bell Curve.
You must mean moving away from authoritarianism, not toward it. The FBI was running Twitter from the inside, people were being shut down all over the internet for misinformation, disinformation and the most hilarious Orwellian censorship tool called malinformation (true information the regime didn't like). USAID has been it turns out, the tool used by the CIA to fund over 6,000 "journalists worldwide, and over 55,000 NGOs.
So, as a Trump supporter, to borrow a quote from Musk, "I love Trump, as much as a straight man can love another man"
Once DumDum & company rejoice after their completion for successfully illigally removing illigal immigrants they will do the same with other groups of people, and with a compliant US military to assist - especially in Blue cities. I can see the military & militia groups being used to intimidate the midterm election polling stations, and taking over counting the votes. Conscription will be enacted as an excuse to round up younger people into internment camps. DumDum will definitely rig it to remain in power. Welcome to the Banana Republic of America. Hopefully Canada does not get dragged down with it.
Maybe you'll be fortunate enough to become our 51st State.
Gasp, Martin, Martin, Oh Martin, that would be a misfortune actually. Canada is a wonderous nation. America only weakens its stature. Martin, Oh Martin. You silly little boy. Gasp.
No question Trump is planning on staying on as president for as long as he can. Third term be damned and the Supreme Court be damned too. He won’t care. He is president for life and we voted for this autocrat and most of us knew he was going to do this. There was no question that this was his intention. And his other plan is to divide up the world between himself, Putin and Xi. Putin gets Europe and Trump gets the western hemisphere- Greenland, Canada and whatever else he wants in South and Central America. We have capitulated America democracy, American freedom and American behavior. Instead we will have the cruelty and evil that stem from a psychopath like Trump and his chosen cronies.
You are in the very small percentage of democracy people who aren't grasping a straws of hope trying to maintain some optimism and keep from descending into a pit of anxiety and despair. I understand human nature being such that when faced with overwhelming fear denial is a good defense. But people like us, thankfully my partner, and a few others I read on Substack, are going to be better prepared emotionally when the country, and the world, falls apart. Thanks for your comment.
When President Trump leaves office in 2029 you'll simply ignore your 2025 bullshit comment. Get ready for 12 years, maybe more, of republicans in charge, not because of any dictatorial tendencies, but in all likelihood because the democrat party has collapsed. The democrat party cannot function in a free speech world, and with the collapse of the mainstream media, and the ascent of new media, the left's lies are almost instantly corrected.
Add up New Media's audience - it dwarfs the legacy media. Rogan, Tucker, Scott Adams, Doc Rich, Matt Taibbi, The Black Conservative, O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, Shellenberger, Adin Ross, Charlie Kirk, Dave Rubin, Dan Bongino, Candace Owen, Steve Bannon, et (many) al. Even that progressive idiot, Hillary Clinton, in a rare moment of telling the truth, said that "we have lost control"
We've won.
You're screwed.
Disagree all you want but will be blocked for rudeness which tells me who you are.
Just the mere fact that you say that in support of an absolutely evil man who would commit genocide to free up Gaza shows what a despicably mean, stupid and ignorant fool you are. Today Trump created a video of what Gaza would look like after he and the Trump organization took it over. That video is like all the horrendous films that were created in Theresienstadt of how the Jews were being treated in the ‘labor camps’ ie concentration camps. That is what you think defines a good person. A person who does not align himself with Hitler and his thoughts and actions. You are so misguided it is sickening. Trump is a sick man. And he will bring America into a world conflagration that you and your ilk will not only be responsible for, but will pay the ultimate price for which I will laugh and be gleeful. You are a horribly ignorant dolt!
I agree. Most people see that there is some hope we can return to a normal way of life. I don’t think that Trump can be removed other than by force. With his replacement of senior offices in the military by individuals who no doubt agree with what he is doing that is going to be unlikely so we are to put it blandly - FUCKED! A horrifying thought, but as you say we cannot possibly blind ourselves to what is plainly there for us to see. As the son of Holocaust survivors I hate seeing what is happening and truly tremble for my own safety and future in this country that has turned so suddenly into the pariah I could never have imagined. I am only pleased my parents did not live to see this happen.
As a fellow Jew, born in 1944, although secular, I grew up immersed in a sense of identity related to an awareness of the Holocaust. None of my known ancesters died in the camps or survived them Unless they are Jews like some of the MAGA ones (and shame on them) any Jew should see that there are only superficial differences between Hitler and Trump. Hitler and the Nazi henchment were psychopaths and so is Trump and many of his henchmen. Hitler didn't care for ostentatious displays of wealth like Trump, but both usednand use cruelty to achieve their end goals. I don't know if Hitler was a sadist who relished inflicting pain. He may have demonized the Jews for poltical gain. Trump is a sadist. He demonizes people both for political gain and because he enjoys it. Regardless of small differences between the two, anyone who denies the similararities between Trump and Hitler, MAGA and the Nazis, has their head in the sand.
Yeah, Trump is just like Hitler, especially with the way he wants to deal with Israel's enemy, Hamas. And that he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. And his Jewish convert daughter. And Trump visiting the Wailing Wall. Just like Hitler.
You may want to speak with your therapist about the serious case of TDS you're suffering from.
Trump is like Hitler. Hitler worked with the Jewish militias in Palestine just as Trump is dealing with the war criminal Netanyahu and his rightist meshugena genocidal cabinet members. Jews can be Nazis too - there were plenty who collaborated with the Nazis to try to save their own skins. Mostly they perished too because you can’t work with cruel evil people whose thoughts are only of their own power and strength. Just like Trump and his acolytes. Witness Trump and Fuentes - can you trust a man who happily breaks bread with an obvious fascist? And Musk - yet another Nazi. He showed us that with his two salutes and support of the AFD in Germany. Trump moving the embassy was a meaningless move that only caused more anger and the fact that he has a “Jewish” daughter? What does that mean? What did mixed marriages or conversions mean to the Nazi’s. You clearly don’t know anything about how Nazis like Trump/Hitler behave. But I will smile when they come and take you away - because no one on our side will cry for you. You clearly have no shame, no moral values. And most importantly you are just an uneducated lout like all those fools that you listen to in the so called legacy media.
Definitely correct. I agree 100%!!!