We have 4 days and twenty some hours before the madness begins, and I believe every word you say will come true. People have no idea how bad it will get, but I take your warning to the bank.
I made a commitment to myself today that if anyone thanks me for my service from now on, I'm going to ask them who they voted for, and if their answer is Trump, I'm going to tell them, no you don't care about my service or anyone else dead or alive that ever served if that's who you voted for.
My wife freaks out when I tell her stuff like this, but I mean it. USN forever.
Hegseth dodged and refused to answer the question: "Would you allow our troops to shoot the knees of protestors?" Silence. Evasion. There you have it. This guy is the goon squad.
I didn't watch the hearing. Did he really refuse to answer that question?? That, right there, should disqualify him. If he gets confirmed, we'll know all the Rs in the Senate are afraid of Dump. What a sad, sorry state we're in.
Eileen, I wonder how drunk "Kegseth" was while he was on active duty? How many were put in jeopardy because of his incompetence? How many more will be in jeopardy if he gets confirmed 😞
Bill, my Dad was stationed on Whidbey Island in the early 1960s. By any chance were you stationed there? My young teacher at the time married a Lt. Commander named Corbett.
Leslie, I was stationed primarily in Florida and at sea on the FDR CVA-42 Aircraft carrier. My time in service was 68-72. I did have some cousins that lived in that area, but I don't know if they served or if they did what branch of military, they would have served in.
I never forgot your warnings and looking at the Trump nominees he is doing exactly what you predicted.
When Senators knowingly vote for an unqualified like Hegseth the destructive reality of Trump and his co-conspirators is evident. Watching the Senator say she was in combat BUT would support Hegseth came after she received threats. If she believes being a Senator is more important than the country she needs to be defeated at her next election along with the other clowns who don’t have one ounce of integrity.
Except she’s safely in a red state and therefore unaccountable.
I don’t give a flying f if she gets death threats. Ernst served. Ernst says she was assaulted. Ernst claims she cares. SHE and Collin’s (“oh I think the president has learned”),duh, are throwing the women currently serving under the bus. Hell, they’re throwing the entire army under the bus. What will happen when a drunken defense secretary orders these soldiers to shoot civilians? Or participate in grabbing immigrants? When fingers are pointed, it will be at the soldiers. NOT TFG or his minions.
Shame on them.
They’ve put their senate seat above their duty to this country.
Trump IS raged. His ascendancy to the White House has not calmed him one bit. You would think he'd be pleased to no end because he won. But it's not enough, so he lords it over our heads.
He was born and bred to be raged. That's the real DJT. No one can seem to stop him either or even settle him down a notch or shave off some of those deranged cruel edges. They're all afraid of him now.
Once MAGA, Americans or one issue voters realize how the shock and awe will personally affect their lives, then maybe we'll have converts back to reality.
This will not go well for Trump. History shows that deranged and raged people with no civility have sorrowful legacies.
Once his cockamamie cabinet is in place, some of the secretaries will realize what they’re being asked to do and perhaps (?) will know they will go down in history as cruel beasts. How fun is that?
Pardon me while I throw up...this piss poor protoplasm couldn’t run a fucking casino, and now he will destroy the world?
Get ready for President Vance to step up. We’ll have a new sheriff in town if these predictions come true.
But in the meantime, how do I exercise resistance? Wear a bulletproof vest? Start packin heat? Blog my ass off till my fingers bleed? Insult Dipshit's fan base and voters? Stand on the corner with a bullhorn and wave a flag?
We threw everything at this election but the kitchen sink and still lost.
This jerkoff will have to fuck up so bad...that he loses his base, and they bring him down.
Many people will suffer, but the backlash will be monumental.
This is my prediction. And I could be wrong as hell. I just hope I live long enough to see it. I want to see his fan base suffer. I want to see the Republican Party in tatters.
The problem with burning down the house, is now where do you live? The plan needs to be how to rebuild after the shit storm.
I am WAY more pessimistic than I was yesterday after watching Hegseth’s congressional hearing, and reading reports that say that he will likely be approved. Every Republican who approves him should lose their next election. Especially Mullin, what a disgrace. And talk about telling on himself, he tried to normalize sexual abuse and alcoholism. The smug ego that Hegseth exhibited yesterday was disgusting and made clear that he has no idea what he doesn’t know. He will just follow whatever Trump tells him, including using the military against Americans.
Is that what it will take? Trump turning the military on us? Will that wake up the rest of America? How can so many people be so blind?
Keep in mind Korea President Yoon tried taking over his country using the military and is now in jail. Hope springs eternal. Not sure how much the Repugs will take before they wished they had impeached him when they had the chance. There is something going on behind the scenes that just does not make sense. Trumps supporters particularly those Reps/Senators act more like cattle than normal supporters. They are elected to support their states, the US and the constitution and not one person. Those meals at M-a-L have got to be spiked.
The alcoholism and other charges were a smoke screen. I can't believe I had to find this out in an ENGLISH NEWSPAPER, but the Guardian quotes Hegseth from his own books in this story. This guy should be on an FBI watch list, not in charge of the military.
I found this story about three days ago.
I pray that the military and intelligence agencies are planning to take him down. Jack Smith's report was released to them at Christmas, three weeks before the official release, and Biden and Harris were called to the White House at that time. Clearly, something was up.
By law, Biden could not see that report until the brass at CIA, FBI and DHS saw it first and came up with a plan. It's possible that there will be hundreds of arrests before Trump is sworn in as the report proves him fomenting an insurrection, so the 14th amendment kicks in. All the proof is there in texts and emails.
If everyone is doing their job, he will not be sworn in. I'm counting on them. They have a sworn oath to the constitution. My prediction is that this will be a surprise takedown with hundreds of agents involved. I can't be wrong on this. I just can't be. Jack Smith? Gen Milley? Would they really let this happen?
But may I say, You (the collective you that is) can't do this resistance 'the American way' with guns and armed resistance though. It has to be peaceful, en-masse protests that do nothing to further the Right-wing narrative. Think Civil Rights movement, not Civil War. You cannot prevent casualties, but you can support those who stand and fall. I will say, if Trump loses the armed forces support, he loses all power. You know this. If he p**** off too many Generals, forcing them to quit, their men will too and there are women Generals with loyal men just as much as male ones. We here in Europe and the West will stand with you but sadly, it looks like much of the rest of the Americas and the East (particularly India) are standing by Trump. There will be a global divide along Trumpist lines, he won't just break America, he will break the entire globe if he isn't careful. I fear he is counting on it.
Yup. Perfectly said. Most think this will be a “normal” transition and life in America will go on pretty much as it has been for 243 years. Stay at it, Earl. Your voice is needed and necessary.
And scared. MAGAS mean it when they say they’ll war to the point of having professionally staffed militias. We, on the other hand… 🤔… I just don’t know…
It is looking dismissal globally. Daily, I contend with rage and hopelessness; yet, my resolve is to remain engaged, volunteer, prepare others, donate, build community, and support others until it is no longer possible. Thank you DES for creating this community space and to all for sharing your insights. It helps me TREMENDOUSLY. 💙🇺🇸⚖️🗽
I know this is truth. My body knows it’s true. Mot a cell in my body that doesn’t know it’s true. So I wake in panic every morning. The tiger is in the room.
I couldn't watch the Hegseth hearing - I have no appetite for lying, smarmy weasels and the Senate is full of them. I read excerpts and opinions and they both scare me to death. I have been prepared since Nov for dangerous developments, creeping authoritarianism, cruelty, economic disaster - but not the capture of the military. Or for it to be purposefully used against us - but that's what authoritarian takeover is, isn't it? And how do we, the powerless, stop this impending catastrophe? The MAGAts, the uninformed, the uninterested are not going to care. The media is in prostrate thrall to t***p, the broligarchs salivating at their expected windfalls, corporations and Wall Street on board with tax giveaways - we are a small voice screaming into the wind. Where to now?
Since we're totally out of federal power, it's all we can do. I have called, written my (R) representatives - it will do no good, but they need to know there is dissension in the ranks. I'm attending a local march on Sunday, the 19th, with several hundred already confirming. Not bad for East TN. I've changed my ringtone to 'I Won't Back Down' - if nothing else maybe it will spur some discussions as to why. I'm hoping independent media can overcome corporate sanewashing and toadying. We have to...
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE: If you live in a Red State, write to your senators and tell them to denounce Hegseth and prevent his nomination from going further. Rapist, alcohol abuse problems (not in recovery), and racist - ZERO experience or qualifications for the job CANNOT be given this level of power. Thank you!
Eileen, these are the very things my two Texas senators support. Right now they are drunk on their own power. But give it enough time, and it will blow up. Most people understand Ted Cruz is a pathetic, worthless piece of shit who has done nothing for Texas. But he trounced Colin Allred by 800,000 votes. John Cornyn just doesn't want to upset Maga so supports whatever Trump says. I could set myself on fire outside their offices but it wouldn't do any good. Once Ernst said she would vote for Hegseth, it was over.
We have 4 days and twenty some hours before the madness begins, and I believe every word you say will come true. People have no idea how bad it will get, but I take your warning to the bank.
I made a commitment to myself today that if anyone thanks me for my service from now on, I'm going to ask them who they voted for, and if their answer is Trump, I'm going to tell them, no you don't care about my service or anyone else dead or alive that ever served if that's who you voted for.
My wife freaks out when I tell her stuff like this, but I mean it. USN forever.
I do this pretty regularly, shipmate.
When people thank me for my service, I say this: "Well, a lot of fucking good it did us ..."
Hegseth dodged and refused to answer the question: "Would you allow our troops to shoot the knees of protestors?" Silence. Evasion. There you have it. This guy is the goon squad.
I didn't watch the hearing. Did he really refuse to answer that question?? That, right there, should disqualify him. If he gets confirmed, we'll know all the Rs in the Senate are afraid of Dump. What a sad, sorry state we're in.
Eileen, I wonder how drunk "Kegseth" was while he was on active duty? How many were put in jeopardy because of his incompetence? How many more will be in jeopardy if he gets confirmed 😞
Thank you Bill Corbett
Bill, my Dad was stationed on Whidbey Island in the early 1960s. By any chance were you stationed there? My young teacher at the time married a Lt. Commander named Corbett.
Leslie, I was stationed primarily in Florida and at sea on the FDR CVA-42 Aircraft carrier. My time in service was 68-72. I did have some cousins that lived in that area, but I don't know if they served or if they did what branch of military, they would have served in.
Bill, thank you for your response.
I never forgot your warnings and looking at the Trump nominees he is doing exactly what you predicted.
When Senators knowingly vote for an unqualified like Hegseth the destructive reality of Trump and his co-conspirators is evident. Watching the Senator say she was in combat BUT would support Hegseth came after she received threats. If she believes being a Senator is more important than the country she needs to be defeated at her next election along with the other clowns who don’t have one ounce of integrity.
Except she’s safely in a red state and therefore unaccountable.
I don’t give a flying f if she gets death threats. Ernst served. Ernst says she was assaulted. Ernst claims she cares. SHE and Collin’s (“oh I think the president has learned”),duh, are throwing the women currently serving under the bus. Hell, they’re throwing the entire army under the bus. What will happen when a drunken defense secretary orders these soldiers to shoot civilians? Or participate in grabbing immigrants? When fingers are pointed, it will be at the soldiers. NOT TFG or his minions.
Shame on them.
They’ve put their senate seat above their duty to this country.
Cowards. Liars. Hypocrites.
Also, DEMS get death threats all the time.
All get death threats but that doesn’t make it right. I refuse to lose my humanity because they have lost theirs.
I agree. Death threats are wrong but she should have the courage of her convictions.
Like Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger.
So well said. I totally agree with your words. Senator Ernst should show some integrity and not support Hegseth
This is really getting "Real" and it's scary as hell. Thanks,Earl, for a real Eye Opener today 💯👍
😔 sadly it is.... 💔🇺🇲💔🫂
Trump IS raged. His ascendancy to the White House has not calmed him one bit. You would think he'd be pleased to no end because he won. But it's not enough, so he lords it over our heads.
He was born and bred to be raged. That's the real DJT. No one can seem to stop him either or even settle him down a notch or shave off some of those deranged cruel edges. They're all afraid of him now.
Once MAGA, Americans or one issue voters realize how the shock and awe will personally affect their lives, then maybe we'll have converts back to reality.
This will not go well for Trump. History shows that deranged and raged people with no civility have sorrowful legacies.
Once his cockamamie cabinet is in place, some of the secretaries will realize what they’re being asked to do and perhaps (?) will know they will go down in history as cruel beasts. How fun is that?
Trump could care less about his cabinet, just as long as they bow to him.
Yes I know and he’ll fire them via X if they waver in their loyalty to the mafia thug.
You can count on it.
Pardon me while I throw up...this piss poor protoplasm couldn’t run a fucking casino, and now he will destroy the world?
Get ready for President Vance to step up. We’ll have a new sheriff in town if these predictions come true.
But in the meantime, how do I exercise resistance? Wear a bulletproof vest? Start packin heat? Blog my ass off till my fingers bleed? Insult Dipshit's fan base and voters? Stand on the corner with a bullhorn and wave a flag?
We threw everything at this election but the kitchen sink and still lost.
This jerkoff will have to fuck up so bad...that he loses his base, and they bring him down.
Many people will suffer, but the backlash will be monumental.
This is my prediction. And I could be wrong as hell. I just hope I live long enough to see it. I want to see his fan base suffer. I want to see the Republican Party in tatters.
The problem with burning down the house, is now where do you live? The plan needs to be how to rebuild after the shit storm.
Just my opinion. I could be wrong and often am.
Count me in on the "being wrong often" column, but I believe your comment is chillingly accurate, Zee.
We can resist the oligarchs by staying off meta, x, and fuck Amazon, etc... but how do we resist the greatest military on earth?
Good question.
As a vet, I will use my creaky platform to illuminate and educate our current military.
TY
You don't swear Trump in as POTUS.
There is STILL TIME.
He CAN be stopped.
He may have "won"/but probably not. Congress needs to hold him responsible for threatening other countries, and disqualify him from taking office.
Sorry NK this won’t happen.
I am WAY more pessimistic than I was yesterday after watching Hegseth’s congressional hearing, and reading reports that say that he will likely be approved. Every Republican who approves him should lose their next election. Especially Mullin, what a disgrace. And talk about telling on himself, he tried to normalize sexual abuse and alcoholism. The smug ego that Hegseth exhibited yesterday was disgusting and made clear that he has no idea what he doesn’t know. He will just follow whatever Trump tells him, including using the military against Americans.
Is that what it will take? Trump turning the military on us? Will that wake up the rest of America? How can so many people be so blind?
I am hoping there is actually a line this anti-American SOB can cross that will engage enough people to give a damn.
So ... I am hoping the arsonist will set a fire big enough, to wake people up, and that is just terrible.
Terrible but realistic. I don’t want to see good people hurt either, but it will take what it takes.
Keep in mind Korea President Yoon tried taking over his country using the military and is now in jail. Hope springs eternal. Not sure how much the Repugs will take before they wished they had impeached him when they had the chance. There is something going on behind the scenes that just does not make sense. Trumps supporters particularly those Reps/Senators act more like cattle than normal supporters. They are elected to support their states, the US and the constitution and not one person. Those meals at M-a-L have got to be spiked.
The People ARE BLIND, Until It affects Them and then They will act surprised. THEY DID THIS... and Unfortunately We will all be affected.
😞🇺🇲😔
The alcoholism and other charges were a smoke screen. I can't believe I had to find this out in an ENGLISH NEWSPAPER, but the Guardian quotes Hegseth from his own books in this story. This guy should be on an FBI watch list, not in charge of the military.
I found this story about three days ago.
I pray that the military and intelligence agencies are planning to take him down. Jack Smith's report was released to them at Christmas, three weeks before the official release, and Biden and Harris were called to the White House at that time. Clearly, something was up.
By law, Biden could not see that report until the brass at CIA, FBI and DHS saw it first and came up with a plan. It's possible that there will be hundreds of arrests before Trump is sworn in as the report proves him fomenting an insurrection, so the 14th amendment kicks in. All the proof is there in texts and emails.
If everyone is doing their job, he will not be sworn in. I'm counting on them. They have a sworn oath to the constitution. My prediction is that this will be a surprise takedown with hundreds of agents involved. I can't be wrong on this. I just can't be. Jack Smith? Gen Milley? Would they really let this happen?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book?CMP=share_btn_url
Powerful piece Earl, thank you.
But may I say, You (the collective you that is) can't do this resistance 'the American way' with guns and armed resistance though. It has to be peaceful, en-masse protests that do nothing to further the Right-wing narrative. Think Civil Rights movement, not Civil War. You cannot prevent casualties, but you can support those who stand and fall. I will say, if Trump loses the armed forces support, he loses all power. You know this. If he p**** off too many Generals, forcing them to quit, their men will too and there are women Generals with loyal men just as much as male ones. We here in Europe and the West will stand with you but sadly, it looks like much of the rest of the Americas and the East (particularly India) are standing by Trump. There will be a global divide along Trumpist lines, he won't just break America, he will break the entire globe if he isn't careful. I fear he is counting on it.
Right now I don't think many Americans give a good goddam about most of this.
Until and if this happens, we are bluntly fucked.
*Sigh. It's not looking good, is it? :o/
Yup. Perfectly said. Most think this will be a “normal” transition and life in America will go on pretty much as it has been for 243 years. Stay at it, Earl. Your voice is needed and necessary.
💯 😔
Great ideas. Hope enough people care. Too many Americans are just spoiled and lazy. Afraid to sacrifice.
And scared. MAGAS mean it when they say they’ll war to the point of having professionally staffed militias. We, on the other hand… 🤔… I just don’t know…
It is looking dismissal globally. Daily, I contend with rage and hopelessness; yet, my resolve is to remain engaged, volunteer, prepare others, donate, build community, and support others until it is no longer possible. Thank you DES for creating this community space and to all for sharing your insights. It helps me TREMENDOUSLY. 💙🇺🇸⚖️🗽
I know this is truth. My body knows it’s true. Mot a cell in my body that doesn’t know it’s true. So I wake in panic every morning. The tiger is in the room.
Yes.
Feeling the effects Too. 🫂😞
This makes me so angry I want to explode!
I couldn't watch the Hegseth hearing - I have no appetite for lying, smarmy weasels and the Senate is full of them. I read excerpts and opinions and they both scare me to death. I have been prepared since Nov for dangerous developments, creeping authoritarianism, cruelty, economic disaster - but not the capture of the military. Or for it to be purposefully used against us - but that's what authoritarian takeover is, isn't it? And how do we, the powerless, stop this impending catastrophe? The MAGAts, the uninformed, the uninterested are not going to care. The media is in prostrate thrall to t***p, the broligarchs salivating at their expected windfalls, corporations and Wall Street on board with tax giveaways - we are a small voice screaming into the wind. Where to now?
I wish I had some good answers for you, friend.
I'm going to fight like hell, take no shit, and call it all out.
It's all I know how to do.
Since we're totally out of federal power, it's all we can do. I have called, written my (R) representatives - it will do no good, but they need to know there is dissension in the ranks. I'm attending a local march on Sunday, the 19th, with several hundred already confirming. Not bad for East TN. I've changed my ringtone to 'I Won't Back Down' - if nothing else maybe it will spur some discussions as to why. I'm hoping independent media can overcome corporate sanewashing and toadying. We have to...
I have a crazy amount of respect for you, and your activism.
Thank you - that means a lot.
Yes. We have to be vigilant and hold them accountable. Be loud and proud. Call them out.
Horrendous but correct
I’m sure that Putin is thrilled with Comrade Trump’s choices for his cabinet. 🤬
Delighted. Absolutely delighted ...
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE: If you live in a Red State, write to your senators and tell them to denounce Hegseth and prevent his nomination from going further. Rapist, alcohol abuse problems (not in recovery), and racist - ZERO experience or qualifications for the job CANNOT be given this level of power. Thank you!
Eileen, these are the very things my two Texas senators support. Right now they are drunk on their own power. But give it enough time, and it will blow up. Most people understand Ted Cruz is a pathetic, worthless piece of shit who has done nothing for Texas. But he trounced Colin Allred by 800,000 votes. John Cornyn just doesn't want to upset Maga so supports whatever Trump says. I could set myself on fire outside their offices but it wouldn't do any good. Once Ernst said she would vote for Hegseth, it was over.
Didn't the Beatles sing about our military in this situation? 🎶 Coup,coup, kachoo.....