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Carol Frederick Poenisch's avatar

The plan to rush everything was to blindside the public, catch them off guard so that the public couldn’t respond. The longer the Trump administration can keep radical changes, the more likely they are able to become permanent. It’s called gas lighting, the more you lie to someone the more they believe it. Hitler consolidated power and formed a dictatorship in 18 months.

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Mary Lilith Ruth's avatar

I believe it’s being done so fast and illegally that we won’t be able to catch all the horrific EOs and other kingly proclamations. This was all laid out ( except the X factor ) by the heritage foundation. Written in a big book called project 2025. They are trying.

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David Sloan's avatar

All of what you said , while being true, only scratches the surface of what is going on. This all is planned, not by trump, but by silicone valley moguls who believe they are better than all other Homo sapiens. I believe they are the ones who are actually pulling the strings at the White House, who want to destroy the government, take the money and withdraw from the rest of humanity, leaving us behind to face the consequences of their hubris.

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Virginia Hastings's avatar

Trump looks in charge wielding his vengeance, Michael. But he isn't really. He's just a front for the Putin initiated oligarchs who want to rule a non democratic nation - a new world order. Donald is getting his ego stoked, looking important in the Oval Office (with more and more gold toys around him), and people are bowing and scraping before him - just what his ego wants. People are afraid of him too - just what his ego wants. But he didn't write Project 2025, and it's moving right in behind the chaos and the vengeance he creates, and he knows it. He's just the front man who gets the credit for it all, and the attention he craves so much. But as soon as he's done what they ask of him - they'll bump him out of the White House one way or another and a more rational, smarter, more predictable destroyer of democracy will go to work for his boss, Thiel. Donald is an alcoholic binging, but the oligarchs are the real masters behind this naked king!

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Pamela Tourangeau's avatar

His actions are pure punishment by a 5 year old pissed off child for not getting his way.

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HungarianAgrarian's avatar

Cut Fraud and waste; Lock up Trump and Musk!

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Don't Stop Me Now - TLawrence's avatar

I feel like those who could stop this are just standing by and letting it happen. How much more damage do they have to do? PUTIN is laughing. Letters, calls and demonstrations are not doing any good. Where are our leaders?

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HungarianAgrarian's avatar

Trump is pressured by time from Putin!

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fleur flowers's avatar

Michael, thanks for your explanations about this Clown’s vile behavior & actions!

When will the ‘powers that can’ finally take action & realize that this so-called Prez is

totally INCOMPETENT running this country and that he needs to be IMPEACHED &

REPLACED asap (not by his equally bad vice)…

I’m sure & hope that some jurists are working on that plan…

fleur 🌻

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Lorraine Halliday's avatar

You need to BE virtuous to practice patience. It's a real virtuous intention, Michael.

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SLMontgo's avatar

Once upon a time, our government moved with all deliberate speed. Deliberate. Those days have vanished, never to return until the present regime is removed, whatever form that takes.

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Erin Flanagan's avatar

Why would flood-the-zone ever end? It's a psychological strategy and a logistical means of tying-up our Federal practice resources to cripple the overall opposition. (Although the DOJ doesn't seem to have too many qualified Federal practitioners thus far.)

To put it in civil terms, this adminstration plays the role of Big Business in a single consumer-plaintiff product liability case: paper the complainant with irrelevant, misleading, and false discovery and frivolous motions. Project 2025 seeks to gum-up the opp'n's ability to successfully bring suit.

I've requested that the National Association of Criminal Defense (NACDL) lawyers call upon its prodiguous membership to play role-reversal and volunteer pro bono time to prosecute the high and low crimes and misdemeanors and felonies undertaken by this band of incompetents. The defense lawyers would backflip with glee to get in on this smackdown.

Michael, contact them, please. Help NACDL to help us. They have the organized membership and LEXIS / Westlaw accounts to make a meaningful contribution. Envision: starting now, a battalion of criminal defense attorneys prosecuting the government on the basis of the constitition all the way up to SCOTUS? Get otta here!!!

The United States has about 250,000 criminal defense lawyers who can do it better than Bondi et crü. Let's call in the troops! Let's flood their FUCKIN ZONE.

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Dr. Gemma F. Conlu's avatar

Very well written Mr. Cohen. Totally agree with you. I don't see any plan. It's akin to making every working person in America miserable. Making America Great should be alleviating our lives, making it better; not trying to break us, not only mentally but financially.

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Paul Schwartz's avatar

Your morning updates are the best. The problem in this country is you simply cannot fix stupid. Because of all the chaos, esp with the latest bombing, is that they will try to accentuate other issues (like tariff updates) in order to hope Americans, forget

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Judy Cross's avatar

I want to throw-up every time his name is mentioned as I'm sure a huge number of American's do. He is the poorest excuse for a leader of any kind, let alone being the President, which he is not. He was elected to the position, but never served in that capacity. He is not the President of the people of for the people. He is a dictator.

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Mark Shriner's avatar

Measure twice, cut once. Isn’t that the saying. Agree, Patience is a virtue. Something these fucktards will never have.

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