In a stunning display of spinelessness, Republicans prepare to vote yes on Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"; despite knowing it will devastate millions of their own voters.
Michael: great piece. You have talked about the lack of Democratic will to reach across the aisle and appeal to their GOP colleagues. But I’ve been reading so many of the Democratic Congress people saying that they have reached across the aisle and their hearing from their GOP colleagues that essentially they’re afraid of crossing the mob boss, and that they’re caught between a rock and a hard place. Thus they cave and vote for this thing. And I’m not absolving the Democrats of anything, I’m just saying it’s hard to reach across the aisle and appeal to people who have absolutely no morals, no spine no courage and no commitment to helping their constituents. Fealty only to the mob boss. How does anybody fix that?
I call bullshit on that! Congress has become a battleground where no communication exists between the sides and win at all costs. Even if that means we all lose!
It all doesn't make sense for Americans and benefits those against liberty and justice for all because it's more important what gender gets to use which bathroom (@)
I have been reading and hearing the same thing. They are not all spineless people. They just have spineless people across the aisle to try and work with. Those same people that don't give a damn about about our Constitution or our Democracy. They care nothing about the US or it's peoples. They are cult members working for the devil and some day they may wake up and say "What the hell have I done."
This is how Hitler took over Germany. Fear. And yet, what's the big deal to fear about losing a job--that is nearly as bad as losing your life? You can find another job. Or retire. Shame on every last one who voted for this. And now they can concentrate on providing themselves with personal security. A person with nothing to lose does radical things.
no one can top you as a brilliant concise gut wrenching writer.... I would love to hear their answers to your questions... they are all beneath contempt.. 330,000,000 people have been thrown under the bus many immediately the rest of us slowly unless you are the maga oligarchs...congratulations but know this magas.... when you look out the window to admire your conquered land it will be a desert with no roads hospitals restaurants..... nothing but tumbleweeds ... I'm heartbroken
Michael I'm always happy to read your Substack and join your live videos.
And it's true, I live in an area in Central Florida and am surrounded by elderly, disabled people who already have a hard time surviving. I speak the truth to them and they are full cult Magas.
They hate it when I try to tell them to join Substack. They love Trump and even though they have no money, pay their bills late are on Medicaid and Snap, they still buy his crazy shit.
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Good morning Michael. Once again another great piece from you. Every morning I wake up I hold out hope that enough of these spineless Republicans will find their strength and stand up for the people, not that POS. I will say again that he is the most heartless, moronic pig that has ever been voted in as president Not once, but twice! I'm not going to hold my breath but I'm hoping for a miracle.
I have come to the conclusion that this had to happen….that Donald J Trump had to make the Republicans do something heinously unAmerican to further the financial interests of Don and his cronies and to teach us all(redhats included) a lesson about what happens when you deny Trump a second consecutive term. This is Trump’s personal and barbaric January 6th, he is performing the equivalent of carrying Confederate flags through our sacred corridors, and crapping on all our floors. Our children and grandchildren will inherit a legacy of cruelty and poverty, fear and sickness, and shame that we did nothing to stop the savage assault on our nation. It had to happen, because we the people failed to protect our interests, were uninformed and/or cruelly prejudiced voters, and dishonored our heritage of liberty and justice for all.
What can I say? The immediate future for all of us looks dark. Once the country feels the pain inflicted by Congress and the Supremes, maybe we'll wise up. But how many will die before this uncivil war ends.
Not only will people who can't get health care die too soon, but there will be the deaths from despair and anger, and those will be the violent ones. Those are surely deserved.
Thank You Michael ..What makes this shocking to me is not one of them has a conscience. Not one.. They say that a lot of these cuts won't happen until after 2026. I'm afraid that if that happens and the dems take back the house they will get blamed. It seems to me that the voters really don't pay attention. FOX and other right wing outlets will spend endless time and money saying it is the dems fault. Or they will fix the election so that they will stay in power and it will all be over. They will fix it by making it really difficult to vote. I don't know anymore.
What a disgrace to our country and it's peoples. No free thinking brains in the republican party. They will be responsible for the deaths of many people and for what reason? To kiss Dump's a_s and not do the right thing. They are on the devil"s side and work for the devil.
I’ve been “in” since 1995 when I was a fourth grade teacher who discovered fascists had taken over our schools and everyone else around me was acting exactly like these representatives and senators are acting - loyal to the administrators rather than concerned we were stealing education from society.
So I organized other teachers like me all over this country so we could stop it. Since 2002 we’ve been crying out at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org and only a handful pay attention - not the media and not the politicians from either party.
Fascists know human nature. They know fear is more powerful than love. So all they had to do was get you to disrespect teachers so you won’t listen to them and then build power that steamrolls anyone in their way. They figured out a way to get most people to lose faith in both parties that allowed education, our great leveler, to be stolen from us. That’s what paved the way for Trump.
Michael Cohen is so correct about what’s happening. The problem is even people like him don’t listen to people like me once power builds in a direction against us. Despite warning we were going to lose democracy for thirty years, I’ve been voiceless. That’s what fascists do. The secret for keeping them powerless is education. That’s why they started there.
However, their secret could become our power if we spread the word since we still can take back the schools by running for school boards in groups of four on a save democracy platform. I wrote a memoir of my teaching days, A Graver Danger, so people can understand education enough to take it back. I priced it low so it will get read, its price does not reflect its worth! It includes a plan to fix our schools once the good people get back into power. Reform hasn’t worked since the power-mongers who’ve hijacked them haven’t wanted our schools to work!
The proof that it all started in our schools is this: only morons would fall for Trump. We’ve become a nation of morons thanks to our corrupt schools.
You don’t have to just take it from me, a passionate educator. Abraham Lincoln had warned, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
It absolutely is! It’s all about who has the power. If you help the whistleblowing teachers gain power, we the people will gain power.
We’ve just watched our Congress capitulate. That’s what scared people do. That’s what our teachers did. That’s what our teachers’ unions did in time. It’s time to fix what we can fix by getting on school boards no matter your age, no matter if you have children since this destruction of our democracy all started in our schools, the foundation of our democracy.
Thank you. It’s much appreciated to be heard. Does it not amaze you how few people pay attention? That’s how we got here. I’ve been at this for 30 years so I’m used to the challenge, but I’m afraid there’ll be little left to save if people don’t wake up soon. We need James Carville saying it’s the schools, stupid.
You are so right. The "pied-piper" continues to lead his "zombie like" Republicans who appear to bow to his threats and or candy like treats and promises... It is ironic that privately most would agree that it is a bad bill. Tell me what we can do? SOS...
The whole lot of them just talk through both sides of their mouth …. Say something to the camera to make it look like they care about the people, but when it comes down to reality their true colors show!!
We have been talking about this bill for days. It's been dominating the press and why? Was even live on TV. I could have told you that it would pass the Senate and House, who couldn't? It always does. No big deal. Trump speaks and they all fall in line as they always do. This time could have been spent telling the American people about Trump walking away from Ukraine. That he took sanctions off the Russian banks that enables Russia to continue the war. We could have been talking about the 50,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border or the horrendous bombings on civilian lives. But no lets talk about what was going to be the inevitable passing of the Trump bill.
Michael: great piece. You have talked about the lack of Democratic will to reach across the aisle and appeal to their GOP colleagues. But I’ve been reading so many of the Democratic Congress people saying that they have reached across the aisle and their hearing from their GOP colleagues that essentially they’re afraid of crossing the mob boss, and that they’re caught between a rock and a hard place. Thus they cave and vote for this thing. And I’m not absolving the Democrats of anything, I’m just saying it’s hard to reach across the aisle and appeal to people who have absolutely no morals, no spine no courage and no commitment to helping their constituents. Fealty only to the mob boss. How does anybody fix that?
I call bullshit on that! Congress has become a battleground where no communication exists between the sides and win at all costs. Even if that means we all lose!
So how do we fix that? Voting the bums out can’t happen for another 16 months?
It all doesn't make sense for Americans and benefits those against liberty and justice for all because it's more important what gender gets to use which bathroom (@)
I have been reading and hearing the same thing. They are not all spineless people. They just have spineless people across the aisle to try and work with. Those same people that don't give a damn about about our Constitution or our Democracy. They care nothing about the US or it's peoples. They are cult members working for the devil and some day they may wake up and say "What the hell have I done."
Agreed, but I tell you what. I'm not going to hold my breath (@)
This is how Hitler took over Germany. Fear. And yet, what's the big deal to fear about losing a job--that is nearly as bad as losing your life? You can find another job. Or retire. Shame on every last one who voted for this. And now they can concentrate on providing themselves with personal security. A person with nothing to lose does radical things.
Their fear of Donald clearly outweighs their fear of the cowardice that will become their legacy.
no one can top you as a brilliant concise gut wrenching writer.... I would love to hear their answers to your questions... they are all beneath contempt.. 330,000,000 people have been thrown under the bus many immediately the rest of us slowly unless you are the maga oligarchs...congratulations but know this magas.... when you look out the window to admire your conquered land it will be a desert with no roads hospitals restaurants..... nothing but tumbleweeds ... I'm heartbroken
Michael I'm always happy to read your Substack and join your live videos.
And it's true, I live in an area in Central Florida and am surrounded by elderly, disabled people who already have a hard time surviving. I speak the truth to them and they are full cult Magas.
They hate it when I try to tell them to join Substack. They love Trump and even though they have no money, pay their bills late are on Medicaid and Snap, they still buy his crazy shit.
SO US EDUCATED NON CULT MEMBERS NEED TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.
SIGN UP FOR THE NATIONWIDE STRIKE AND SHARE SHARE SHARE
https://generalstrikeus.com/
Good morning Michael. Once again another great piece from you. Every morning I wake up I hold out hope that enough of these spineless Republicans will find their strength and stand up for the people, not that POS. I will say again that he is the most heartless, moronic pig that has ever been voted in as president Not once, but twice! I'm not going to hold my breath but I'm hoping for a miracle.
I have come to the conclusion that this had to happen….that Donald J Trump had to make the Republicans do something heinously unAmerican to further the financial interests of Don and his cronies and to teach us all(redhats included) a lesson about what happens when you deny Trump a second consecutive term. This is Trump’s personal and barbaric January 6th, he is performing the equivalent of carrying Confederate flags through our sacred corridors, and crapping on all our floors. Our children and grandchildren will inherit a legacy of cruelty and poverty, fear and sickness, and shame that we did nothing to stop the savage assault on our nation. It had to happen, because we the people failed to protect our interests, were uninformed and/or cruelly prejudiced voters, and dishonored our heritage of liberty and justice for all.
Damn it man! I think you're right....................................
The Stepford Wives have taken over the GOP in Congress (except these sycophants make the Stepford Wives seem like independent thinkers)
What can I say? The immediate future for all of us looks dark. Once the country feels the pain inflicted by Congress and the Supremes, maybe we'll wise up. But how many will die before this uncivil war ends.
Not only will people who can't get health care die too soon, but there will be the deaths from despair and anger, and those will be the violent ones. Those are surely deserved.
Thank You Michael ..What makes this shocking to me is not one of them has a conscience. Not one.. They say that a lot of these cuts won't happen until after 2026. I'm afraid that if that happens and the dems take back the house they will get blamed. It seems to me that the voters really don't pay attention. FOX and other right wing outlets will spend endless time and money saying it is the dems fault. Or they will fix the election so that they will stay in power and it will all be over. They will fix it by making it really difficult to vote. I don't know anymore.
What a disgrace to our country and it's peoples. No free thinking brains in the republican party. They will be responsible for the deaths of many people and for what reason? To kiss Dump's a_s and not do the right thing. They are on the devil"s side and work for the devil.
Right On Michael. I am screaming the same…how LOUD do we need to scream before they hear, or stop pretending they don’t..? Christians? MY ASS.
The big cuts to Medicare and other atrocities don't go into effect until AFTER the midterms in 2026. It's a slow poison they're releasing.
https://substack.com/@mbmatthews/note/c-131655507?r=hcg5
Agreed, they do that so that uneducated voters think the democrats are at fault, because they know come midterms, MAGA is going to get kicked out (@)
I’ve been “in” since 1995 when I was a fourth grade teacher who discovered fascists had taken over our schools and everyone else around me was acting exactly like these representatives and senators are acting - loyal to the administrators rather than concerned we were stealing education from society.
So I organized other teachers like me all over this country so we could stop it. Since 2002 we’ve been crying out at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org and only a handful pay attention - not the media and not the politicians from either party.
Fascists know human nature. They know fear is more powerful than love. So all they had to do was get you to disrespect teachers so you won’t listen to them and then build power that steamrolls anyone in their way. They figured out a way to get most people to lose faith in both parties that allowed education, our great leveler, to be stolen from us. That’s what paved the way for Trump.
Michael Cohen is so correct about what’s happening. The problem is even people like him don’t listen to people like me once power builds in a direction against us. Despite warning we were going to lose democracy for thirty years, I’ve been voiceless. That’s what fascists do. The secret for keeping them powerless is education. That’s why they started there.
However, their secret could become our power if we spread the word since we still can take back the schools by running for school boards in groups of four on a save democracy platform. I wrote a memoir of my teaching days, A Graver Danger, so people can understand education enough to take it back. I priced it low so it will get read, its price does not reflect its worth! It includes a plan to fix our schools once the good people get back into power. Reform hasn’t worked since the power-mongers who’ve hijacked them haven’t wanted our schools to work!
The proof that it all started in our schools is this: only morons would fall for Trump. We’ve become a nation of morons thanks to our corrupt schools.
You don’t have to just take it from me, a passionate educator. Abraham Lincoln had warned, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
It absolutely is! It’s all about who has the power. If you help the whistleblowing teachers gain power, we the people will gain power.
We’ve just watched our Congress capitulate. That’s what scared people do. That’s what our teachers did. That’s what our teachers’ unions did in time. It’s time to fix what we can fix by getting on school boards no matter your age, no matter if you have children since this destruction of our democracy all started in our schools, the foundation of our democracy.
Terrific post, Karen!!!
Thank you. It’s much appreciated to be heard. Does it not amaze you how few people pay attention? That’s how we got here. I’ve been at this for 30 years so I’m used to the challenge, but I’m afraid there’ll be little left to save if people don’t wake up soon. We need James Carville saying it’s the schools, stupid.
You are so right. The "pied-piper" continues to lead his "zombie like" Republicans who appear to bow to his threats and or candy like treats and promises... It is ironic that privately most would agree that it is a bad bill. Tell me what we can do? SOS...
The whole lot of them just talk through both sides of their mouth …. Say something to the camera to make it look like they care about the people, but when it comes down to reality their true colors show!!
We have been talking about this bill for days. It's been dominating the press and why? Was even live on TV. I could have told you that it would pass the Senate and House, who couldn't? It always does. No big deal. Trump speaks and they all fall in line as they always do. This time could have been spent telling the American people about Trump walking away from Ukraine. That he took sanctions off the Russian banks that enables Russia to continue the war. We could have been talking about the 50,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border or the horrendous bombings on civilian lives. But no lets talk about what was going to be the inevitable passing of the Trump bill.