Sarah Longwell joins Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to discuss how Donald Trump’s chaotic economic and immigration policies are backfiring, sending grocery prices soaring, devastating small business owners, and triggering deep anxiety even among his own supporters.
Sarah, the GOP is still NOT the party of the poor. It never has been. Those fools who voted for the GOP believing that are suffering the consequences of decades of such stupidity because the GOP is the party of the rich, as their tax cuts for the rich since Reagan and their erosion of the middle class proves. Be clearer, those fools BELIEVE that, nothing more.
Those serious Republicans in his prior administration, with those guardrails, supported the tax cuts for the rich! They, the GOP, are just more of the same BS since Reagan.
I work for Toys for Tots at Christmastimes and I have seen just how many people DON'T have money to get their kids ANYTHING for Christmas and they also can't afford and Christmas dinner either (we also bring in food to go with the gifts that they get ). Actually the Toys for Tots for many years have been working with local Food Banks to help the poor~
Another national election, another country moves further left away from Trumpism. The incumbent Labor party just destroyed the RW party here in Australia.
"Donald Trump’s chaotic economic and immigration policies are backfiring, sending grocery prices soaring, devastating small business owners, and triggering deep anxiety even among his own supporters." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Best takeaway-- "Marco Rubio has 10 jobs as he's one of the few actually competent!" Good points by Sarah and good questions by MSN. Seems Pres T wants a team handsome and loyal, so is picking too many Barbie and Ken dolls. They are fresh out of the box, so LOOK good. Dolls can't "talk back" or ask disturbing questions, so illusion of loyalty, with competence sacrificed.
No disrespect meant, but I do wonder if we hear what we want to hear from Trump supporters, that they are feeling the crunch, and don't hear what we don't want to hear, that they are giving him time to make the changes he claims are necessary. I frankly don't know what they think. I do think they are going to get screwed, but may never care enough for that to matter.
There's a lot of "denial", something seen in alcoholic families that don't get counseling and don't go to AA. A good friend or other counselor deals with denial by presenting reality in a undeniable way. EXAMPLE: Have encountered some who say T's bad plans are plans only, that he won't actually DO any of it. They look at his rallies as if it's World Wide Wrestling and entertaining fakery. However, reality is coming soon. When their trucker relatives get laid off as far fewer ships are arriving at LA and Long Beach waiting to be unloaded? When favorite stores are missing key items? That will be undeniable reality It won't seem like funny entertainment any longer.
You can say something low-key like, “Yeah, I’m really upset about that too. Too bad T. was in such a rush to do tariffs. “ Let it go at that. When their sister-in-law says the same thing a week later, they might say to themselves, “that’s the second time I’ve heard that. Might be something to it.” That’s how “social influencing” works, a bit at a time, one person here, another person there, not everybody responds, but enough respond that change happens. Took thirty years for all farmers to give up horse-and-plow for tractors. We have the internet so change fast, We don’t need everybody to shift, just enough, don’t care about unchangeable MAGA, as we don’t need them. Did you check out ages on the Jan 6 set when filmed clubbing cops at the capital? Not spring chickens, they will die out eventually.
All farmers haven't given up hoarse drawn plows. The Amish still farm that way. Successfully. But their social network helps make up for holding back on technology. I think we thought the Trump team had little youth support. I'm not sure that is actually the case any longer though. A lot of young men did vote for the turd.
I should know better! We see Amish with horses when we visit those on my wife’s side, nice set, chatty. They call themselves “the German”, vs “the English” for us, not actual ethnicity, but for language spoken in the home. IMPORTANT—They do vote to innovate, to modernize, locally, if it makes sense. EXAMPLES—Where wife’s family farms, they voted to allow some gas engines outdoors, not in the house,. They voted for a refrigerator all could share, to keep their ice cream from melting in the summer. They voted for 1 telephone, shared, for emergencies. A BIG SURPRISE? The last time German measles “came through”, some of the Germans’ kids had bad consequences, as none were vaccinated. “The English” saw no bad results, as all were vaccinated. "The Germans" observed the difference, and "the Germans" voted to vaccinate thereafter.
Wendall Berry has written a lot about Amish farming practices, and how they are designed in part to hold their community together. I can imagine the debates.
Boo hoo! Inflation is hurting Trump voters.....GOOD. They had ample warning. They should consider themselves lucky for not having to live in Ukraine. Selfish dimwits.
SARAH - you always nail it, but the connection (out in the world that does not attend focus groups) of TARIFFS to LIFE is circuitous and kind of fuzzy. We need to equate tariffs to cost of living in a more visceral way. Please take the lead, and call tariffs IMPORT TAXES. Like SALES TAX but WORSE!!! Because IMPORT TAX is on everything that comes in from outside. Even food, vaccines, medicine, etc. You can do it the way we do with "x" (formerly known as Twitter). Think about it and take the lead:
"IMPORT TAX" (formerly known as Tariffs).
I read and watch you religiously. Fight on, Woman. And thank you.
trump voters will get what they deserve. As H.L. Mencken who noted, 'On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.'
I am usually an empathetic person, but after three trump election cycles, I have lost all empathy for the trump voter and the ruinous choice they keep making. As your pal, Tim Miller observed, the bottom has to fall out before the trump cult sees reality. No pain, no gain. A case of tough love is about to engulf the lives of millions of trump cult members. Right now the kindling is just getting hot. The wildfires will follow, now matter how calm the winds seem at present.
I understand. I do not want to downplay the damage all will encounter. But we see it coming and maga will be caught unaware. I look at it like preparing for a hurricane. People are better off knowing where the hurricane will hit and how to prepare for it.
Sarah, the GOP is still NOT the party of the poor. It never has been. Those fools who voted for the GOP believing that are suffering the consequences of decades of such stupidity because the GOP is the party of the rich, as their tax cuts for the rich since Reagan and their erosion of the middle class proves. Be clearer, those fools BELIEVE that, nothing more.
Those serious Republicans in his prior administration, with those guardrails, supported the tax cuts for the rich! They, the GOP, are just more of the same BS since Reagan.
I work for Toys for Tots at Christmastimes and I have seen just how many people DON'T have money to get their kids ANYTHING for Christmas and they also can't afford and Christmas dinner either (we also bring in food to go with the gifts that they get ). Actually the Toys for Tots for many years have been working with local Food Banks to help the poor~
Another national election, another country moves further left away from Trumpism. The incumbent Labor party just destroyed the RW party here in Australia.
Trump polls need to now be: approval/disapproval/supports impeachment.
"Donald Trump’s chaotic economic and immigration policies are backfiring, sending grocery prices soaring, devastating small business owners, and triggering deep anxiety even among his own supporters." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Best takeaway-- "Marco Rubio has 10 jobs as he's one of the few actually competent!" Good points by Sarah and good questions by MSN. Seems Pres T wants a team handsome and loyal, so is picking too many Barbie and Ken dolls. They are fresh out of the box, so LOOK good. Dolls can't "talk back" or ask disturbing questions, so illusion of loyalty, with competence sacrificed.
We have confirmation .....Trump's birthday military parade is on. June 14th Hail Geezer!
No disrespect meant, but I do wonder if we hear what we want to hear from Trump supporters, that they are feeling the crunch, and don't hear what we don't want to hear, that they are giving him time to make the changes he claims are necessary. I frankly don't know what they think. I do think they are going to get screwed, but may never care enough for that to matter.
There's a lot of "denial", something seen in alcoholic families that don't get counseling and don't go to AA. A good friend or other counselor deals with denial by presenting reality in a undeniable way. EXAMPLE: Have encountered some who say T's bad plans are plans only, that he won't actually DO any of it. They look at his rallies as if it's World Wide Wrestling and entertaining fakery. However, reality is coming soon. When their trucker relatives get laid off as far fewer ships are arriving at LA and Long Beach waiting to be unloaded? When favorite stores are missing key items? That will be undeniable reality It won't seem like funny entertainment any longer.
Yes, but will they blame Trump for getting laid off? For empty shelves? Higher prices? I'm not optimistic.
You can say something low-key like, “Yeah, I’m really upset about that too. Too bad T. was in such a rush to do tariffs. “ Let it go at that. When their sister-in-law says the same thing a week later, they might say to themselves, “that’s the second time I’ve heard that. Might be something to it.” That’s how “social influencing” works, a bit at a time, one person here, another person there, not everybody responds, but enough respond that change happens. Took thirty years for all farmers to give up horse-and-plow for tractors. We have the internet so change fast, We don’t need everybody to shift, just enough, don’t care about unchangeable MAGA, as we don’t need them. Did you check out ages on the Jan 6 set when filmed clubbing cops at the capital? Not spring chickens, they will die out eventually.
All farmers haven't given up hoarse drawn plows. The Amish still farm that way. Successfully. But their social network helps make up for holding back on technology. I think we thought the Trump team had little youth support. I'm not sure that is actually the case any longer though. A lot of young men did vote for the turd.
I should know better! We see Amish with horses when we visit those on my wife’s side, nice set, chatty. They call themselves “the German”, vs “the English” for us, not actual ethnicity, but for language spoken in the home. IMPORTANT—They do vote to innovate, to modernize, locally, if it makes sense. EXAMPLES—Where wife’s family farms, they voted to allow some gas engines outdoors, not in the house,. They voted for a refrigerator all could share, to keep their ice cream from melting in the summer. They voted for 1 telephone, shared, for emergencies. A BIG SURPRISE? The last time German measles “came through”, some of the Germans’ kids had bad consequences, as none were vaccinated. “The English” saw no bad results, as all were vaccinated. "The Germans" observed the difference, and "the Germans" voted to vaccinate thereafter.
Wendall Berry has written a lot about Amish farming practices, and how they are designed in part to hold their community together. I can imagine the debates.
You’re an amazing communicator and you have compassion- thank you!
Well done, Sarah! Thank you for giving it to us straight, while giving us hope. Keep up the great work!
2025 vibe verb of the year....empty shelved. As in my fishing lures went up 100% and then they just empty shelved
Boo hoo! Inflation is hurting Trump voters.....GOOD. They had ample warning. They should consider themselves lucky for not having to live in Ukraine. Selfish dimwits.
SARAH - you always nail it, but the connection (out in the world that does not attend focus groups) of TARIFFS to LIFE is circuitous and kind of fuzzy. We need to equate tariffs to cost of living in a more visceral way. Please take the lead, and call tariffs IMPORT TAXES. Like SALES TAX but WORSE!!! Because IMPORT TAX is on everything that comes in from outside. Even food, vaccines, medicine, etc. You can do it the way we do with "x" (formerly known as Twitter). Think about it and take the lead:
"IMPORT TAX" (formerly known as Tariffs).
I read and watch you religiously. Fight on, Woman. And thank you.
Karen G
trump voters will get what they deserve. As H.L. Mencken who noted, 'On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.'
I am usually an empathetic person, but after three trump election cycles, I have lost all empathy for the trump voter and the ruinous choice they keep making. As your pal, Tim Miller observed, the bottom has to fall out before the trump cult sees reality. No pain, no gain. A case of tough love is about to engulf the lives of millions of trump cult members. Right now the kindling is just getting hot. The wildfires will follow, now matter how calm the winds seem at present.
We are all getting what they deserve.
But the rest of us are, too.
I understand. I do not want to downplay the damage all will encounter. But we see it coming and maga will be caught unaware. I look at it like preparing for a hurricane. People are better off knowing where the hurricane will hit and how to prepare for it.
From your lips to God’s ears
MAGA is a Weak Evil Death Cult
And soon they will be wailing ignored into the darkness they caused.
You crushed it Sarah, congratulations!
So powerful. Thank you, Sarah!