It is still the country of George Washington, not even close. In the end, Trump will be crushed. So sad we have to endure so much pain and distress until then.
I was and am so impressed by Governor Newsome. Though a product of California and a but more flashy than a Midwesterner like Governor Walz, they are speaking with one voice. Thank God for folks like them. We have to unite and leave any petty differences behind, this is a fight for our nation and it is literally a matter of life or death.
Let's demonstrate peacefully but in huge numbers this weekend and show that we agree with folks like Newsome and others.
"It is difficult, but absolutely imperative, for Democrats not to let Trump get away with pretending that commanding power is the same thing as upholding the law."
It is not difficult and it is absolutely imperative that all of us, We the People, every single citizen in America stand up and speak out against Trump's blatant destruction of our republic and his unlawful acts of ignoring the Constitution and the rule of law. It doesn't matter if you are a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent! We all must put our country before any party identity!
I read this, "Military.com on Wednesday reported that Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg this week, ostensibly part of the Army’s 250th anniversary celebrations, involved a careful curation of the audience." Sorted by looks and political beliefs.
An underreported aspect of Trump’s hostile action in California is the extension of forces to farms in the midst of harvesting strawberries and other produce. If what I have been seeing here and there is accurate, this is a huge assault on food production, as well as on the human beings who pick that produce and work on those farms. California is the 4th largest economy in the world. Is it Trump’s aim to decimate it? And seriously erode American food production in the process? With tariffs on foreign food, as well as the effects of climate change in Florida and other environments, where is our food going to come from?
I just finished the piece in the New Yorker on Yarvin. It’s a great read in that dead-pan New Yorker way. The takeaway: Yarvin is a crank and epic fool at a level equal to or exceeding other cranks and fools in MAGA/anti-democracy/far-out theorizing circles such as RFK Jr and Alex Jones. One example: he repeatedly argues that autocrats never put their country or their populations at risk, with say unnecessary wars or harmful economic plans, because he owns them and wouldn’t want to risk his property. Gosh, someone should have told that to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Napoleon ……..That our vice president, a Yale Law graduate, hangs on the man’s every crackpot utterance is chilling. I’ve long considered Vance a DEI admit (veteran status, regional diversity, economic diversity) who let it all go to his swollen head. But his slavering fandom for a nonsensical kook causes my esteem to fall several more notches. Soon it will be at ocean floor level.
This is urgent. I have an abiding suspiction that HOSTOMEL AIRPORT II is happening as we speak by PUTIN against THE USA. Putin is assaulting America using his classic playbook ... observe the facts.
Russia invaded Ukraine -- they planned to take over Hostomel Airport and fly thousands of troops into the airport nearest Kyiv ... there are THREE AIRPORTS that surround DC...
Trump has tanks and troops deployed TO DC ALREADY as a BEACH HEAD -- he will secure the airports for HOSTOMEL II via "parade" for PUTIN.
This "HOSTOMEL STRATEGY" is RUSSIA'S STANDARD PLAYBOOK!!! USED WITH GREAT SUCCESS MANY TIMES!!
Trump has incited the nation with attacks on AMERICANS and is prepared to IMPLEMENT MARTIAL LAW.
He will clamp down the nation and have PUTIN COME TO HIS VICTORY PARADE IN DC.
HE WILL MARCH PUTIN RIGHT INTO DC TO GET TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW.
Morning Shots at its very best! Bill's George Washington quote was perfect for today. It should be in bold on the front page of every newspaper (I know I'm an old dinosaur - I'm in my 70s, give me a break). And Andrew owning up to his past dismissal of Newsome is the type of honesty I expect from the very best of the Bulwark.
Many of us old dinosaurs are with you Kevin. Also like many, I get my newspapers on my iPad, helping to reduce pollution and giving me the ability to increase the print size when these 78 year old eyes need help. I keep to a minimum my exposure to the ongoing gang rape of our country but do read reputable journalists, responsible opinion pieces and view PBS news enough to know what is happening. We oldtimers failed in our duty to make the county live up to its proclaimed ideals, so now we have a duty to stand up and be counted and do what we can to stop the bleeding.
Never loved or respected you more, Andrew, than learning you wanted to publish “Gavin Newsom Can Eat a Bag of D*cks.” I cackled. Editors, let this Andrew loose.
Gavin is to be commended every way until Sunday. And can we also add: who would have expected this kind of strident opposition to Donald Trump's authoritarian ambitions from the vapid, overly handsome, empty suit of a politician that has long been our unflattering assessment of Governor Gavin? Is it possible he has been underrated? Time will tell. But then again, isn't this what we had a right to expect from this most populous state, and 4th largest economy in the world? Gavin is calling it right on all counts. And I would add to that, as I see it, thank god almighty he is.
There's a Bulwark posture that I find tiresome, but quite apart from my feelings, it's politically counterproductive. You find Newsom "annoying"? Compare him to most red-state governors. Compare him to Youngkin, my governor (and let's see what happens to VA's economy after every gov't agency is decimated) . Compare California's governance to, oh, governance in any state whose G-d-fearing, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth have a purely phantasmal image of CA. Or of NYC, for that matter.
I pray that we have that man. As someone in the Bulwark said we have to become more like Solidarity in Poland. We all must encourage our friends and neighbors to stand up against the Trump lies
We gonna strip out the “no local or state laws about AI” provision from B^3?
No? We just gonna hand over citizen data to Palantir, a company named for a corrupted seeing stone used by the comically evil villain of Lord of the Rings? Crickets?
I’m still waiting for the so called libertarians to freak out about this…
Ditto for the run around on judicial rulings. I’d appreciate it if MAGA just started saying “divine right of kings is so great, bow before his majesty”. At least it’d be truthful.
There has to be a price paid - eventually. It has to be clear this is going to happen to our fellow citizens who are engaged in anti-americanism because that's what it is. So I would say the vid allows us to identify attendees. And so they will one day get booted from the service. Whether we offer a reform off ramp is something to consider then.
It is still the country of George Washington, not even close. In the end, Trump will be crushed. So sad we have to endure so much pain and distress until then.
I was and am so impressed by Governor Newsome. Though a product of California and a but more flashy than a Midwesterner like Governor Walz, they are speaking with one voice. Thank God for folks like them. We have to unite and leave any petty differences behind, this is a fight for our nation and it is literally a matter of life or death.
Let's demonstrate peacefully but in huge numbers this weekend and show that we agree with folks like Newsome and others.
"It is difficult, but absolutely imperative, for Democrats not to let Trump get away with pretending that commanding power is the same thing as upholding the law."
It is not difficult and it is absolutely imperative that all of us, We the People, every single citizen in America stand up and speak out against Trump's blatant destruction of our republic and his unlawful acts of ignoring the Constitution and the rule of law. It doesn't matter if you are a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent! We all must put our country before any party identity!
Exactly why they should be front and center so we can see all of them.
I read this, "Military.com on Wednesday reported that Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg this week, ostensibly part of the Army’s 250th anniversary celebrations, involved a careful curation of the audience." Sorted by looks and political beliefs.
An underreported aspect of Trump’s hostile action in California is the extension of forces to farms in the midst of harvesting strawberries and other produce. If what I have been seeing here and there is accurate, this is a huge assault on food production, as well as on the human beings who pick that produce and work on those farms. California is the 4th largest economy in the world. Is it Trump’s aim to decimate it? And seriously erode American food production in the process? With tariffs on foreign food, as well as the effects of climate change in Florida and other environments, where is our food going to come from?
This is worth reading looking into and talking about
Peter Theil is the billionaire that founded supported funded promoted JD Vance
Works with Russell Vought and Curtis Yarvin architects of the 2025 plan that have been saying for years that our democracy needs to end
https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the?r=eit6y&utm_medium=ios
And Mike Johnson
Trump is just a way to get what they want done
They handpicked JD Vance
I just finished the piece in the New Yorker on Yarvin. It’s a great read in that dead-pan New Yorker way. The takeaway: Yarvin is a crank and epic fool at a level equal to or exceeding other cranks and fools in MAGA/anti-democracy/far-out theorizing circles such as RFK Jr and Alex Jones. One example: he repeatedly argues that autocrats never put their country or their populations at risk, with say unnecessary wars or harmful economic plans, because he owns them and wouldn’t want to risk his property. Gosh, someone should have told that to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Napoleon ……..That our vice president, a Yale Law graduate, hangs on the man’s every crackpot utterance is chilling. I’ve long considered Vance a DEI admit (veteran status, regional diversity, economic diversity) who let it all go to his swollen head. But his slavering fandom for a nonsensical kook causes my esteem to fall several more notches. Soon it will be at ocean floor level.
Well, he has been very influential in this 2025 plan with Peter Thiel
This is urgent. I have an abiding suspiction that HOSTOMEL AIRPORT II is happening as we speak by PUTIN against THE USA. Putin is assaulting America using his classic playbook ... observe the facts.
Russia invaded Ukraine -- they planned to take over Hostomel Airport and fly thousands of troops into the airport nearest Kyiv ... there are THREE AIRPORTS that surround DC...
Trump has tanks and troops deployed TO DC ALREADY as a BEACH HEAD -- he will secure the airports for HOSTOMEL II via "parade" for PUTIN.
This "HOSTOMEL STRATEGY" is RUSSIA'S STANDARD PLAYBOOK!!! USED WITH GREAT SUCCESS MANY TIMES!!
Trump has incited the nation with attacks on AMERICANS and is prepared to IMPLEMENT MARTIAL LAW.
He will clamp down the nation and have PUTIN COME TO HIS VICTORY PARADE IN DC.
HE WILL MARCH PUTIN RIGHT INTO DC TO GET TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW.
Alexander Vindman's pessimistic assessment of our officers' democratic sensibility: https://substack.com/@avindman/note/c-124784447?r=8mpgi
Morning Shots at its very best! Bill's George Washington quote was perfect for today. It should be in bold on the front page of every newspaper (I know I'm an old dinosaur - I'm in my 70s, give me a break). And Andrew owning up to his past dismissal of Newsome is the type of honesty I expect from the very best of the Bulwark.
Many of us old dinosaurs are with you Kevin. Also like many, I get my newspapers on my iPad, helping to reduce pollution and giving me the ability to increase the print size when these 78 year old eyes need help. I keep to a minimum my exposure to the ongoing gang rape of our country but do read reputable journalists, responsible opinion pieces and view PBS news enough to know what is happening. We oldtimers failed in our duty to make the county live up to its proclaimed ideals, so now we have a duty to stand up and be counted and do what we can to stop the bleeding.
Never loved or respected you more, Andrew, than learning you wanted to publish “Gavin Newsom Can Eat a Bag of D*cks.” I cackled. Editors, let this Andrew loose.
Gavin is to be commended every way until Sunday. And can we also add: who would have expected this kind of strident opposition to Donald Trump's authoritarian ambitions from the vapid, overly handsome, empty suit of a politician that has long been our unflattering assessment of Governor Gavin? Is it possible he has been underrated? Time will tell. But then again, isn't this what we had a right to expect from this most populous state, and 4th largest economy in the world? Gavin is calling it right on all counts. And I would add to that, as I see it, thank god almighty he is.
There's a Bulwark posture that I find tiresome, but quite apart from my feelings, it's politically counterproductive. You find Newsom "annoying"? Compare him to most red-state governors. Compare him to Youngkin, my governor (and let's see what happens to VA's economy after every gov't agency is decimated) . Compare California's governance to, oh, governance in any state whose G-d-fearing, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth have a purely phantasmal image of CA. Or of NYC, for that matter.
I admit I didn't see Gavin asserting himself like this. It was only a month or so that he was, imo, playing 'beta cuck' to Charlie Kirk.
I pray that we have that man. As someone in the Bulwark said we have to become more like Solidarity in Poland. We all must encourage our friends and neighbors to stand up against the Trump lies
We gonna strip out the “no local or state laws about AI” provision from B^3?
No? We just gonna hand over citizen data to Palantir, a company named for a corrupted seeing stone used by the comically evil villain of Lord of the Rings? Crickets?
I’m still waiting for the so called libertarians to freak out about this…
Ditto for the run around on judicial rulings. I’d appreciate it if MAGA just started saying “divine right of kings is so great, bow before his majesty”. At least it’d be truthful.
Mikey J. Is trying.
There has to be a price paid - eventually. It has to be clear this is going to happen to our fellow citizens who are engaged in anti-americanism because that's what it is. So I would say the vid allows us to identify attendees. And so they will one day get booted from the service. Whether we offer a reform off ramp is something to consider then.
All GOP Congressmen and Senators should be required to attend Trumps military parade. They need to experience first hand what they helped to create.
They don't want to be caught on camera applauding with insufficient enthusiasm.