Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
The good thing about Trump Derangement Syndrome is that all the lefties run to the courts with their bullshit. Winning in the courtroom makes it semi-permanent. Winning 🏆
So clueless & clearly so over your head. Try consuming factual, well-sourced, credibly verified news & lay off known pathologically dishonest right wing media, aka, FAKE NEWS. BTW, professional journalists are bound by code of ethics to report facts, truthfully. RWM is entertainment🚫 News.
Give me an example of a professional journalist that you are referring to?
“professional journalists are bound by code of ethics to report facts, truthfully” Are you upset that we are winning or something else?
And the answer is......What Are We Going To Do About It? Get excited about football starting? Bet on the World Series? Anything other than pay attention.
Boycott all college and professional sports until pro-Trump sports oligarchs turn on Trump to save their profits: No tickets, no media, no merchandise, no betting. Use sports to hurt Trump.
I've been having nightmares. The last time I had one, I was about 10.
Things are more than scary when an ethical person finds themselves in agreement with anything that a sexist narcissist toadie like Larry Summers has to say. If he had Trump's power, his actions would be indistinguishable from Trump.
We know this. Larry isn’t telling us anything we don’t know.
Pfffftt - Nonsense The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a preliminary downward revision of 818,000 jobs for the 12 months ending in March 2024, a reduction of about 30% on what was initially reported. Final numbers were released in February 2025.
People from both sides of the aisle need to understand what is happening. "“My Democratic colleagues and I have just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop Trump's redistricting power grab,” Texas state representative James Talarico said" heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-3-2...
GQP no longer gives a damn about the people, ONLY holding onto power regardless of the harm they're doing to their voters! Gerrymandering robs the people of their voice! In my facist red state, we vote FOR an issue & they TAKE IT AWAY: we have no voice, no democracy! They want total control over us!
Always have, always will. 👍
Trumpturd is playing his role of dicktator with finesse! Wondering if the people are paying attention, will they even respond, do so properly?
No shit!!!!!!!!!
Yes.
Yeah, but he didn't throw anyone out a window, or use them for target practice.... Yet.
And why don’t the Democrats do anything about it Aaron?
Does Summers ever reflect on the ways in which he helped bring this about?
It is VERY scary stuff, and we're all figuring out how to stop it. Congress, anyone???
And the guardians of the pedophile (GOP) salute their dear leader🤬
And for far less, Nixon was both impeached AND removed- largely because the republican party wasn't totally corrupt to the core.
What do people think Project 2025 was about? All of this is in line with the goal of that guidebook, which is to create a fascist state.
What's scary is that every republican in office is complicit, an accessory, & co-conspirator in the coup! The entire administration including Vance & every fake cop, fake judge, & the entire Heritage Foundation will be charged & punished by a legitimate justice department of the next administration!
You’re assuming there will be a next administration. The Republicans will not release their hold on power. The only way is when millions in each state are protesting in the streets every single day not one day a month.
If they try to prevent any election, they will be removed by mobs of millions, the military will either be with the people or divided & we'll have the civil war they've been pushing for since they lost the last one! The military is sworn to protect the country from all enemies, foreign & domestic...
I sincerely hope McEntarfer sues Trump for defamation. Everyone knows she’s a dedicated, honest and professional statistician. Where is his evidence to dismiss her? Present it at the court, Trump. Of course, there is none! This is the revenge of a puerile man-child for bad news. Risible!
And she could win, but Trump will appeal to a court that will do his bidding. Your judiciary will not stop this
That's why judges should always use Civil Law in cases of contempt against their rulings. Trump has no power over Civil Law.
No. Defamation is dealt with by Civil Law. Trump canonly pardon guilty cases of Criminal Law.
Ok. My bad. Regardless let's see how this goes ...
100%!!!!!!
The thing is, he keeps doing things like this without any chastisement from the GOP. This is what happens when the foolish public gives all the power to the Republican sycophants. The Congress, The Senate and allowed the SC(R)OTUS to pander to the mushroom.
Biden should have done it during his term, but we all know Biden wasn't running the government.
2018: www.politico.com/magazine/sto... The Press Has Sanewashed Trump’s Dementia and Mental Illness’: Dr. John Gartner The psychologist and founder of Duty to Warn says the aging Trump has dementia and is severely mentally ill. 2025: mindsitenews.org/2025/04/01/s... bsky.app/profile/happ...
If an airline smells of alcohol you don't wait for a blood test result before they're barred from reaching the cockpit.
And right in everyone's face! Such "transparency" for all to see.
U.S. credibility has been flushed into the swampy sewer, internally and externally due to someone’s ego and incompetence. Spinning tires in a mire. Only one way to address this issue. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
All this is true. And no one is able to do anything, because Trump has monarchical power now. Elections? They'll be Putin-style. Or worse.
As my father said, “Liars figure but figures don’t lie.”
We're entering a dark period in American history. Facts will be distorted. Disinformation will be deliberately spread to change popular opinion. But in this digital world, that will not be easy. youtu.be/7UtFg_YCBoA
The parallels are pretty unescapable. The irony is that this stupid president, poorly educated just like the poorly educated he admires, has likely never heard of nor read this book. What a fucking shit hole of a condition the United States is in. Have the Dems and the Republicans been lobotomized?
Whoa.....
What Orwell missed is that at least a third of the people in the dystopia will love the abuse and beg for more. Collaborators love rolling around in filth, it makes them feel special.
“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
No, that’s being bullied into compliance. I’m talking about the people who started with acting like the horrors were a good thing because they get to hurt minorities.
Very insightful.
Sad but true.
Entering a dark period? When did we exit a dark period?
We’ve been in it for years. This may be the start of exiting it.
Look who's talking "misinformation". Where were you the last four years?😂😂😂
It will also be easier than ever before, at the same time!
You are correct. Writers like Orwell could imagine 24/7 surveillance but never dreamed of the internet! There's always a video. There's always an audio tape. There's always a post online. Point is the resistance to what's coming needs to stay informed and work together.
The only true history of this time will be told by media and historians from other countries, just like the only reliable documentaries of the Nazi regime are those from allied countries as opposed to anything from Germany.
This happened in the Red Scares.
The stoners and misinformed on this feed is so laughable.
These people are the "tolerant" "educated" ones.
Nonsense Ace. Erika was (and is) an idiot!
We always thought we were too great to fall for this kind of bullshit- too together to allow the "strong-man" to get a foothold. We believed we were protected by our 900 BILLION dollar defense system; but never thought russian propaganda could penetrate it like BUTTAH. Oopsy.
Trump knows that the medium is the message, and he intends every medium to carry only one message: his own fucking lies. That's not just authoritarianism, which is bad enough, but the shrinking of the American brain until they it as small as Trump's sorry dick, as reported by Stormy Daniels.
Many of us have seen this coming from Trump LONG ago - like even before his 1st administration. The problem is that all GOP reps are in lock step with him, they have control of all 3 branches of government and the Dems still don’t fight fire with fire. Where are the loud gutsy honorable leaders?
And it's truly agonizing that just a handful, perhaps as few as 3 or 4, repub congress folks, could turn it all around, end this chaos.
There are no Goldwaters left in the rethuglicans party with the balls to push back, and say enough, like Senator Goldwater from Arizona personally went to Nixon and told him he had to go or be impeached. Of course Pres. Ford pardoned him so he never paid for his crimes, but Democracy was saved.
But they won't do it. Afraid of losing power.
GOP ignoring all the red flags is one thing but dems doing the bare minimum, when they can do more show what is wrong with the current system, dems know they are the only option so they would win eventually and when that happen they will collude with the remain of GOP to repeat the cycle
And the spineless little pansy Republicans just sit on their hands in a corner cowering. Who voted for all of these cowards?
It has been way.beyond what Nixon did since Jan 6th
Yes this IS scary stuff. Every damn day. Who is going to stop him? Impeach the Supreme Court judges who made it possible for this incompetent, treasonous, felon to run-a-muck. It has to STOP. It’s getting like….. Ho Hum…. What’s this POS going to do today.
Don't forget about every spineless GOP Senator who refused to convict Mafia Monster of impeachment after Jan 6! All these lawless, spineless, Americans hating jerks are responsible for the horror we're living. Evil, corrupt GQP only gives a damn about themselves & holding onto power NOT us!
Are these guys just “waking up” (tired of that fucking phrase)??? 🌮 should be in prison or exiled to a prison island (Alcatraz anyone??)
Not scary! INFURIATING 🤬
I wish all talking heads, grown up men and women, would stop over-using the word 'scary.' Every time I hear it I think of someone cowering in a corner, chewing fingernails, self victimizing. Put some fire behind your statements, for crying out loud. Sorry not sorry. 🤷🏼♀️🫤
Agree totally When I see “terrifying,” I want to scream. Get angry dangit Don’t cower
He's only getting scared NOW??
People still act like they're not sure what is happening. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS FALLEN TO A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP AFTER OUR ELECTION WAS STOLEN!!!!! Let's stay focused.
I'm hollering 😂😂😂
🤣🤣
Russia just passed a law allowing them to go after anyone who posts dissent against the government. We are next.
Russia just passed a law letting them target anyone who posts dissent against the government. Unfortunately, we could be heading down the same path.
Oh /Now/ it's "scary stuff"? Only now?
Really scary!
Famous kid saying when I was younger. “ liar liar pants on fire!” #TuckFrump
Nose as long as a telephone wire ;)
The lying liars of the lying Repub party.
Sweet!! 👍🏼💯
#butheremails
😡😡😡
Blame goes to the gutless, craven, and ethically challenged debased losers like ABC, CBS, WP, NYT, corporate media, law firms, universities, and the entire fascist Republican Party who have sold their worthless souls to the demented devil in the WH.
Agree~reminder NBC/MSNBC has held back archives of tapes on Trump’s racism & sexism comments in/Apprentice era. They showed lack of integrity plus journalistic stewardship! Shameful!
True. Forget some of this stuff on the felon, since there is SO much.
I think the regime tries to keep new atrocities coming every eight seconds, like the movies.
The silence by News/Networks has been disheartening. Were aware of Trump’s implications with his NY unethical history. These Corp’s have so much to answer too us/citizens.
They owe the public nothing. They owe their shareholders profits. They can't produce profits by attacking the person who can most impact those profits. Capitalism doesn't work, but it ain't going anywhere because Americans are so inward looking
Corporate media is of, by, and for the billionaire class. Believing NBCUniversalComcast has a progressive agenda is a convenient smokescreen for all parties except the people.
Can we find a way to get them? Lots of media outlets to still put the clips out there, apps, podcasts…
Boycott them
Scary 😱
It's called Trump being a 'Dictator' and our Country being.. 'NAZI AMERICA' ** Summers know it, but.. He just.can't.say.it.out.loud.
It’s really frightening. I didn’t imagine that the American Constitutional Republic would end with a few dozen billionaires transferring more wealth to themselves and 70+ million racists would bring down a democracy, but in 6 months they’re halfway to a dictatorship and complete autocratic control.
And yet only a few days of protests. Time to change their anthem because they shouldn’t hold their head high when singing the land of the free.
Really, it was one day of protests. Relatively small ones, at that. While almost every single institution folds like a cheap rag. A more docile society of knee-benders has never existed. Always ready to punch down, then back to licking boots.
ONE DAY ONLY? You're clearly addicted to pathologically dishonest, intentionally divisive, right wing propaganda! If you have any interest in the truth, consume factual, well-sourced credibly verified news; journalists are bound by a code of ethics to report FACTS TRUTHFULLY. RWM is entertainment.
The Nazis are winning.
Not-seas are controlling media. The outrage is real, evil never prevails & we name & shame those willing to hurt the innocent. As soon as we unmask ice agents the better the country will be. Let them take a corner of AL, or MS so we'll know where these hateful insecure men are living in a compound.
Larry Summers still trying to be relevant after his treatment of women?? What a POS. Stop encouraging him @atrupar.com
We all should have come to this realization 8 years ago or more
Some of us Did. No one would listen.
Isn't #LarrySummers suspected of long stays at little St. James Island? He had close ties with #Epstein for 30 years! I know for me. I don't spend weeks at my friends home. It's been reported and flight logs agree that he spent THOUSANDS of hours with #JeffreyEpstein
The report found that Epstein donated $9.1 million to Harvard from 1997 to 2007 — until the University halted donations from Epstein following his 2008 conviction — 👉 He visited campus several times even after his conviction. www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
Thought he was talking about Obama. Nixon covered up something he didn’t start. Obama amplified plan having trouble getting off the ground. He disregarded the previous reports and ask for them to “show how” Trump colluded not whether he did. His subordinates got the message and the lies began.
Hahaha 😆 😂 🤣
If only someone cared that this country is dying
Given the numbers that march/protest, I find that many, many people do!! We have to vote out the fearful Republicans. If you are a true Patriot who supports America, never believe anything that comes from this Administration! Never, ever vote Republican. Never!
Don't say its stuff....say...this dictator wannabe is doing the same things that past dictatora have done
Nixon was reined in fairly quickly, with people from his own party telling him to get out before they impeached him. Trump indulges in ever worsening behavior because the GOP refuses to push back. Trump should be blamed, but his enablers make it all possible.
Bingo … Trump is the useful idiot
Dems need to have a mammoth problem solving televised meeting that takes place all over the country. Not a protest, a meeting.
WELL THEN WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS SHIT TO HAPPEN??? FELON TRUMP IS NOT A KING NOR A DICTATOR - IN FACT HES NOT EVEN OUR PRESIDENT - WHY THE FUCK IS HE STILL IN OUR HOUSE??? TRUMP IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO - STOP LETTING THIS MADMAN DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!!!!
sane members of congress would love to stop trump, but the house, senate, and supreme court are all stacked. once we win the midterms we'll get a real shot
If everyone said "no" it wouldn't be scary.
If everyone just said “no,” it wouldn’t be scary at all.
Have not seen here on west coast the DVR will pick it up.
Agreed
Sorry Larry, for years you've been part of the problem. You are not part of the solution.
Summers was part of helping Ackman attack Harvard on DEI. Now, when Trump accuses him of being a pedo, suddenly he’s concerned. Fuck all these old bastards. Too late.
Oh, now he gets it? Fucking moron.
It's about time the American people stood up in Mass. People have waited far too long to do something about this fat bloated piece of shit. Trump and all of his followers can go burn in hell.
Epstein Island Visitors, incl. Summers, are feeling the heat. 🫠🫠🫠
I understand Trump will appoint the guy who keeps his golf scorecard as the next BLS director. Then they will change the agency name to simply BS.
Gee, ya think?
Felon 47 makes Nixon look like a saint.
As dictator trump grows more powerful,our very lives will be in his hands to do with whatever he wants and no one will stop him.
What do you suggest????
Unfortunately this is what I'm seeing all around me,in my defense I haven't been to a rally, but the majority I see don't seem to notice we're becoming the 4th reich. I hope Orwell was wrong but he was pretty spot on. Just sayin...
Millions have been on the streets repeatedly across the country over the 6 months of his term, and if you missed out you can join the next one. Or you can do any of a dozen other things to resist. The failures have been among the money class, not the rank and file. thehill.com/homenews/sta...
Per Goldmacher and Corasaniti of the NYT, the White House strategy is “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”
Continual fodder at muzzle speed 2.0.
The NYT political/editorial departments are dead to me after the way they treated Biden and Harris, & promoted 🤬💩. I miss the other sections.
The was an old Soviet joke: -Why was our flight delayed by one hour? - One of our pilots saw the problem with one engine, but now it’s alright. - You changed engine in just one hour? - No, we’ve changed the pilot. That’s not a joke in the U.S. anymore.
As I see, a lots of people liked that thing. Do you want to have one more? One of my favorites and you could get about 10 years custody for it if you’d told this joke to someone you don’t know to 100%.
The Soviets had a better system than we do today.
Well, actually not. How long existed the Soviet Union and how old is US?
Oh yes the only context that matters is the length of time each government has existed. Good call.
In that case that’s literally the only thing that matters. But if you want compared in another way: both Russia and the US have every resource you can only wish in their soil. One of the countries is technological and economical leader. Which one?
You have mistaken me for someone who wants to get into a debate with a person who doesnt think context matters. Im not that person. Find some fool who needs attention.
Sure. That’s why you came here with your Very Important Opinion. You need that: 🧻
Hey do you have that inferiority complex typical of bass players?
Oh, one more envious one whose girl left him with a bass player? Calm down, it’s not about bass players. It’s about your perverse thinking. You don’t want any discussion and you start one. You must be a MAGA if you’re from US.
Well, actually, no. The Soviet Union existed for about 69 years, from 1922 to 1991. The United States, on the other hand, has been around for over 240 years. Big difference in longevity.
That’s the main difference of the systems. If you give people freedom, they are free to create and choose what to create. If you have dictatorship and repressions it is the way down from the very beginning.
Capitalism doesn’t work. It’s a failed system in case you haven’t taken a look around you. And the Soviet government didn’t allow white nationalists and fascists run free. And the Soviet Union only went defunct because they were outspent by the USA.
You never were in a former East Block, did you? They were all fascists. That’s why Soviet pass had there nationality written. If you are not Russian and not in the party, you can forget about any career or something like this. It was really a caste system. The “tops” never mixed themselves with ppl.
bro, you never lived as an adult in the east block, either. How old are you
I never lived there? Did you see where I am from?
The point being made is that unless you are 50 you never lived as an adult under the Soviet bloc.
What makes me really laugh is how naïve most of “westerns” are. How do you think it was - since 1991 everything had totally changed or what? It was the same shit through 90es however with even more insecurity about future. You can still see the difference between East and West even in Germany.
I make no value judgement on your comment, merely that unless you are 50+ you did not live as an adult under the Soviet Union. That's merely a fact.
Bs Russia is Z fascism capitalism and democracy works like contracting one contractor is a lame asshole who does shitty work they get called out. We the next generation comes in they have trend fusion to direction to their future. So right now that will turn over if pork a dot is Temporary
Capitalists pay for everything
The Soviet government engaged in the repression of non-Russian ethnic groups throughout the history of the USSR. They were decades behind the West in technological development. They ran the gulag right up until their collapse. Don't romanticize a failed police state over a critique of capitalism.
Totalitarianism doesn't work; it doesn't matter if it's capitalist or communist. The Soviet Union didn't need anyone external to make it fall, just like the US has been digging its own grave for a good while now. We can but hope it re-emerges as a real democracy in a few decades.
Maybe democracy will emerge after tRump declares bankruptcy. Or his own c/c expires.
He won’t be declaring bankruptcy. He’s making millions from our country. He’s got everything set up just right.
The consequences of the profound damage Trump and co will have done will prove to be irreversible and lethal for our species
That's pretty bleak... We're all gonna die and nothing can be done...
There is still time to remove Trump and set up healing measures to mitigate the severity of climate crisis and social
We just need more taxes!!
Are we sure democracy works? We should be pretty aware that capitalism doesn't work for swaths of the population
I guess. But at least the Soviets had the gulags. If only we had such places to round up the MAGA Republican right wingers like the vermin that they are to ship them off to.
Well, such comparison is not quite right. Because if we talk about GULag, you must understand that communist party is a kind of MAGA, but from left. So they sent there everyone who was not at one “frequency” with them.
The irreversible damage Trump & his Billionaire Class corporate owners will do to accelerate and deepen the building Climate and Ecological Crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinton by doubling down on fossil fuels and destroying forests will mean we will have only social collapse in a few decades. Endgame
Sixth Mass Extinction
Properly regulated (to contain the excesses of greed, protect employees, stakeholders,stockholders, and the environment) capitalism works better than any other system. It does not solve everything (like healthcare or childcare) but overall it does when (again, when reigned in).
Not to be too pedantic....
Properly regulated, capitalism stops being capitalism. That's why all of FDR's regulations got carved out, capitalists despise regulation of their capacity to conquer the market
Properly regulated it is still capitalism. As much as industry hates it they also need it.
The fact remains, they hate it more than they can ever respect it. Every capitalist system will collapse, because even when the rules are fair they remain subject to change, and the wealthy will collaborate to change them
That's why periodically you have to have a civil war, a depression, an FDR, a struggle for civil rights, etc to periodically try to right the ship. It's a never ending battle.
Well, I think we can upgrade to a system where 'righting the ship' has a much, much lower death toll
There are 10,000s of worker-owned cooperatives in the U.S. Physicians, dentists, psychotherapists, lawyers. There are also independent trades people--plumbers, electricians, painters, sheetrock installers, handy men & women, farmers. Vulture corps are trying to destroy them. We must support them!
There's capitalism, vulture capitalism, mercantilism,...How many of you in this thread know the difference between clean competition and predators?
Clean competition regularly showers, uses soap and shampoo, gets an occasional pedicure, uses anti-fungal products on their feet and crotch, and deodorant other places.
Number 1 & 2 seem very similar, but 2 has a statement of contrast with socialism/communism. That being said publicly financed goods and services can exist within a capitalist society.
Number 3 seems like a Libertarian type of capitalism (not sure what that would be called). Any time you see "property rights" think libertarianism.
I'd go with 'capital egoism'.
Yet all Capitalist (Market economy) democracies have outlived all the dictatorships (Communists or other totalitarian crap)
Capitalism WAS a failed system, but FDR fixed it with the New Deal. Since then, the GOP has been chipping away at all the New Deal's reforms until now we're back to where we were in the 1920s. Up for grabs right now is whether we're going to have renewed reforms or a bloody revolution.
Keep making excuses for the most blood soaked and cruel system of govt ever devised.
It works, unless the executives work out how to embezzle billions from their companies and the government….
lolok Average delusional bsky tanky
Look at this. A Zionist. I’d rather be a tankie than a Zionist or a liberal.
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The US has only had this for four and a half out of the last eight years though
Thanks but I don’t need Larry to tell me these things.
He says to George Stephanopoulos who was at the center of the ABC capitulation. Go away & hang your head! All of you jerks got us into this, including Summers who was with Epstein hobnobbing - who screwed up the economy for decades! FU all!
The horse is out of the barn and running into the sunset and Dem leaders are like "well, we seem to have an open door situation and it's scary to think that horses might get out. I'm writing a strongly worded letter urging that we study closing the door."
he horse is already out of the barn, galloping into the sunset and Dem leaders are like, Hmm, looks like the door’s open. It’s scary to think horses might escape. So now they’re writing strongly worded letters urging a study on how to close the door.
I believe Trumpy found the new Commissioner for the BLS… Newly named, The Dept of BS. Where 5+5 now = 500. Yep,👇here’s your guy.
#2dolldon did not fire her for cause. #$weakdon fired her because of a feeling. Isn't that against the law and therefore against the Constitution? We have ourselfs a lawless president.
So how many times do they have to get it wrong before they are let go? Serious question. They get their data from survey responses which have continued to go down. It's time they hire someone who will do a better job and look at more data points than the antiquated process they're using.
The bottom line is that #2weakdon does not have the capacity to fire someone based on cause.
The nature of the job is statistics. It is a mathematical science. It is used to predicts current and future data based on past data, which can always be improved from quantity and varied input. The numbers are what they are. They do not use surveys. They use reports
You could have at least did a cursory search on the subject. I can't take you seriously after that answer. "They do not use surveys." Oh geez. www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cex...
You sre talking semantics. Sure there are surveys, but the data is compiled into reports. It's the report data that's used by statistics to predict the results. Even the reports use statistics to measure variance.
You sound like someone who has never calculated statistics. That has about a 6-signa probability. It does sound like you have used a database, probably not SQL.
Oracle and SQL, but haven't done statistics in a while. How are you getting data without using a database?
I am an eclectic intelligent person. I have used several different database implementations. Pioneered real time statistical troubleshooting analysis. Including electrical engineering.
Great, but how do you get the data without accessing the database? Are you scraping it from a text file? Exporting to csv or some other format and then using script to import into another program?
No
The bottom line is that #2weakdon does not have the capacity to fire someone based on cause.
Holy crap bro! I linked the entire method for you and you still don't know what you're talking about. All the data goes into a database. Data sets are created as well. Reports are the outcomes. The bottom line is, this isn't rocket science, you have TDS and don't know what you're talking about.
You sound like someone who has never calculated statistics. That has about a 6-signa probability. It does sound like you have used a database, probably not SQL.
it’s not just about hiding inconvenient truths, but also about hiding the vast array of his bad calls, errors, and lies.
It’s not just about hiding inconvenient truths it’s also about covering up the countless bad decisions, mistakes, and outright lies.
MSM: That's interesting. Now let's go to the Nazi and get his side of the story.
The US is now a democracy at the fringe (the courts) and a tyranny at its core (the president and a supine, compliant, weak-willed Congress). This fulfills my greatest fears.
"The courts", he said. The courts have their own hierarchy of course. At the base, it's still a "fringe" democracy. But does that even matter when at the highest levels it clearly is not? I don't think so.
Supreme Court???
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And Republicans enable all of it. Vote Democrat to save democracy.
Voting doesn’t matter … $$$ does and GOP is all compromised
voting will no longer save this nation, or us
Scary is an appropriate description of what's happening, but it should be stirring more anger and patriotism instead of fear! "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself"... Action is the cure for fear!
A political system devoted to decline instinctively does much to speed up that process. . Jean-Paul Sartre
You're right, it is scary stuff. Unfortunately, the MAGA Morons can't see that. They think it's great because they are "owning the Libs", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Just proving stupidity is dangerous.
And all of the institutions including the press are capitulating. Bending the knee to a fascist doesn’t limit his control. It’s like paying a blackmailer. The line is constantly changing.
Unless we all actually get off our butts stop of asking what should we do or hope someone else does something we are capitulating.We need millions of people on the streets protesting constantly,grind everything to a halt. If we don’t do something now the next thing will be a violent revolution.
Exactly. Autocracy is here, along with oligarchy and kleptocracy. Nice job, you magat fucks.
Yes but Magats are OWNING the libs so it’s all ok.
What makes it scary is that no one will do a single thing to stop him, to resist even a little bit.
And Democrats along with SCOYUS won’t do anything. We are on our own non-MAGAts.
Yes, it is! It’s what Project 2025 is all about!
Yeah it’s more like what W did with Iraq.
Nixon was a thug.
Yes he was, but he wasn't a mobbed-up career criminal like Trump, or a pedophile, as far as we know. There's dirty politicians, and then there's Trump, in a class by himself.
Nixon stole an election and taught Republicans how to stay in power as a white minority party: Steal elections. Treason puts him right up there with the worst.
Republicans like Summers long ago made winning their one and only, wet dream object of desire. Forget justice, freedom, equality, conscience, norms, laws. Clue: When winning is the absolute aim, that’s not sport, that’s called war.
That is the M.O. of the rethuglicans, it's war, not a political difference, which is why they never stop fighting, why the rules of decency, decorum, that Dems abide by they don't follow, there goal is to win by any means possible and that's what they do. They are fascist to the core.
Time to act like it’s a war. No compromise, no negotiation. Baseball bats not sternly worded letters
You nailed it!!
This is what fascist dictators do and have always done.Why do these cowards continue to tippy toe around calling it what it is?
Call him out. Negate everything he says.
This is too much like 1933 Germany….
Consistently dysTrumpian
Not scary for Canadien Empire Loyalists like me. In fact, I find the Balkanization and decompozing of USA very satisfying … like Cartman attempting suicide in a garage in a a running EV with a hose. it just ruins the closing scenes from On The Beach
It’s pretty amazing that people who are absolutely not left-wing are coming forward and expressing their concerns. I’m pretty sure they contributed to the developments along the way towards the horrible fascism we see now. Maybe this is a form of self protection? Good If he actually believes this.
It's not way beyond what Nixon did. It is exactly the same in that Executive power was abused for the purpose of staying in power. However, Nixon had people in his administration with ethics and morals who stood up for the Constitution. Congress had honor. SCOTUS functioned Constitutionally.
It’s not way beyond what Nixon did it’s exactly the same: executive power abused to cling to power. The difference? Nixon had people in his administration with ethics and morals who defended the Constitution. Congress had honor, and SCOTUS functioned as it should constitutionally
It’s not way beyond what Nixon did—it’s exactly the same: executive power abused to cling to power. The difference? Nixon had people in his administration with ethics and morals who defended the Constitution. Congress had honor, and SCOTUS functioned as it should constitutionally.
Who cares what Nixon did. This is happening now.
We’re not giving an inch fucking pussy. We are fighting authoritarianism the average American thinks Elon fuck everyone his name is shit and Kangkle ankle is one blood clot from death.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news. You already have.
Man speaking out despite Trump saying he was on the island.
Trump doesn’t even care about the truth.
Larry, forget the lofty terms, this is the U.S. sliding into becoming a “shithole country”!
George is a member of the Complicity Core.... I can't hear Summers because I boycott anything ABC or complicit George broadcasts...
George is part of the Complicity Core. I don’t listen to Summers because I boycott anything broadcast by ABC or George’s complicit network.
George is part of the Complicity Core. I don’t listen to Summers because I boycott anything broadcast by ABC or George’s complicit network.
I thought he was all about arresting anti genocide protesters. Now he’s feeling queasy? Don’t let these amoral crooks rehabilitate themselves.
Larry you’re part of reason we’ve got here.
Exactly.
So why did so many dems nor vote to impeach him 🤔 🙄 😕 😐
Because it was performative bullshit and they wanted a real solution. The Republicans were never gonna vote to impeach it was dead before it began and was just wasting time.
Thank you for your clarification.
Good work Larry.
He’s just realizing it NOW?!! And, Summers was behind the rescue of Wall Street in 2008, at the expense of saving MAIN STREET
And this from a republican!
Welcome to the party, y’all.. remember when FDJT called the free press “the enemy of the people”? It was 2016. Please wake up now. No quarter for these fucking idiots
It is scary! Anyone stating facts as they are is threatened unless it pleases the Orange Clown in what used to be the WH and is now an ugly piece of ostentation for a tasteless reject of a human being.
It’s scary! Anyone stating facts as they are is threatened unless it suits the Orange Clown in what used to be the White House, now just an ugly monument to a tasteless reject of a human being.
It’s scary! Anyone stating facts as they are is threatened unless it suits the Orange Clown in what used to be the White House, now just an ugly monument to a tasteless reject of a human being.
He's turned the People's House into his Tacky White Trash House! Americans will be starving soon & he's spending billions to destroy our House, our Rose Garden & get his AF1 luxury jet for LIFE! He's stealing everything he can from the American people for HIMSELF! And GQP is enabling him!
Yeah, we know…
Much worse is ANYONE supporting this moron.
At this point the ones who still do are the lifeblood of his base. Beer gut of the beast. If they can’t have it nobody can type of mentality. Hateful people. If Trump wasn’t born rich he’d be one of them. Violent, abusive and stupid. The poor and uneducated.
You are brainwashed af. The left is the most hateful people these days and it is blatantly obvious. You're having the worlds largest temper tantrum and I love watching you crumble. Time to bring back the 90's Democrat Party. They were liberals with common sense, unlike you.
This is good. Finally some push back on Bluesky. Rarely see that. I voted for Perot in my first election after he said ‘the thing about hate is, I don’t have time for it.’ Maybe you can support Trump and ICE and still be a kind, loving person. Common sense tells me it’s unlikely though.
You'd have to actually have common sense first. You need push back. Whether you like it or not, the democrat party has gone too far left. What's sad is people have seriously been brainwashed since covid. I woke up to the lies right before that when I first got into the stock market. Both sides too.
The ‘everybody gets a trophy’ sentiment that started in the late 90s was the beginning of the end. ‘Defund the police’ is when it went off the rails. People didn’t leave the dems, the dems left the people. Cancel culture. You’ll get no argument from me there.
You hit the nail on the head. Total agreement. I was a democrat until 2020. I thought everyone around me was a democrat too. Turns out I have a huge mix of friends in different parties, but they're all liberal like me. To find out my gay cousins and non-binary one are MAGA was a shocker.
I'll remain Independent until the day I die. I pretty much just vote locally and democrat still, but this year I did vote for a republican controller. I can't back a president until we get good candidates. I stopped voting after Obama.
Yes, it is Larry, and we are terrified. So what are we going to do about it. It looks like everyone is sitting around with their thumb up their ass. While the Republicans get more and more corrupt and try to pass laws that help nobody but themselves. Taking us back to 1860 so they can control us.
I live in one of those horrible fascist red states that is bending over backwards to silence our voices, take away what we passed & now they're cheating AGAIN by gerrymandering the F out of our state so Mafia Monster doesn't lose the House in 2026. GQP doesn't give a crap about anyone but power!
Debi, you are exactly right. I live in Florida, a ruby red state. Our governor is DeSatan, and he is trying everything to get noticed by Trump. Including running over protestors or chopping them in little pieces and sending them to the family in a body bag.
This 2024 election is proof that 70 million Americans no longer want democracy. The question that the remaining 200 million people should be sitting with is this - Are we going to allow the minority to plunge us & our future into a dictatorship & topple the beacon of democracy in today’s world?
(Im my best Buford T. Justice voice ...) "There is no way ... NO WAY... we are going to be allowed to have free and fair midterm elections." Either the Republicans' technology hack is that good, or we'll see them suspended for some made-up reason.
Bingo. . .
But you white people let this happen!!!!! You are the fucking MAJORITY, and still you do nothing!!!
Trump is your warning call. Your president/king has far too much power. When he is able to dismantle any and every thing he wishes, when he wishes, do you not realise there is something wrong right at the core?
So, aside from taking the time to post on social media, what are YOU, white man, doing to stop him? How are you using your power???
I encourage from far away shores.
I see. From which shores? Irish, Scottish, English? Welsh maybe?🤔
We are a bit of each with a lovely Pasifika flavour. New Zealand.
Trump is your warning sign. When a president or king has unchecked power to dismantle anything, anytime, it signals a serious problem at the core of our system.
I'm certainly with you but Kiwis don't get much of a say.
if this keep going on i wont be surprised that even if dems win, trump could disssolve both the senate and congress, trump already use the emergency power at its will with no accountability even with the justice system telling him that is wrong he right now its above the law.
I think you are quite right.
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We need a general strike, but we need the unions to join. The unions are decimated so not sure how it will work. Plus many people are still too "comfortable" and prefer to put their heads in the sand.
Of course it’s not a logical or ethical firing. It’s all intimidation. Some resignations are necessary or the gig is up.
Finally someone willing to speak out. Unfortunately, MAGA don’t listen to elitists like Larry Summer.
But the courts will hold... 🤑
Not to mention that Trump’s tariffs are absolutely illogical and counter-productive. They are causing misery for all Americans, even his base.
Bye bye US
Yes I agree..
seems like spending an extra few trillion supporting our fellow citizens in the wake of the financial crisis and then actually holding those who fraudulently created that crisis and then benefited off of it to account might have actually been worth it...
If only there was a Judicial Branch that could put a stop to all of this illegal activity…
Somebody do something please!!!!!
This regime is waay past being an autocratic regime. We all know this. Now, I want to know what we're going to do about it. Just report and complain?
The boss firing an employee is way worse than political spying. He must think Crossfire Hurricane was REALLY bad!
So trump won the election and also had the most votes. This is what the US wanted. A fucking moron as a president and the fact that the world never can trust the US agan. Eat it or do something about it.
So Trump won the election and got the most votes. This is what the US chose a complete moron for president. Now the world can never trust the US again. Eat it or do something about it.
Thank you Larry for speaking up ! Thank you George for this great information!
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Is that the best he can do in terms of raising an alarm given the podium he occupies? Pitiful.
Nixon was just a crook, not a batshit-crazy narcissistic thin-skinned rapist lifetime-fraudster and traitor crook. There is a difference.
And Nixon was not a draft-dodger like POTUS Bone Spurs. Richard Nixon served in the military. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander. He was promoted to commander in the reserve in 1953 and retired in 1966.
The weird thing is, he could have taken conscientious objector exception, since he was officially a Quaker. Might have been assigned to work in a mental hospital or some such thing as a substitute, though.
Service doesn’t mean crap. I have an old neighbor with a veterans for Trump sign in the yard & our military plays Fox News nonstop on our military bases. The armed forces are full of MAGAts & take the knee to domestic enemies now.
No argument there but we were talking about balls to enlist during active war conditions, not the politics of those who do. I am saddened by vets who support Trump. Does not make sense. And you should qualify your fist sentence... "Service doesn't mean crap TO SOME".
Service doesn’t mean crap TO ME. Our military & law enforcement agencies won’t protect us from domestic enemies, while they murder innocents abroad. I had an abusive step dad who was a marine in Vietnam. He’s a MAGAt now. Many people had abusive military parents.
None of this normal ya’ll
I used to think Americans were made of tougher stuff! But I guess not! As long as Americans have their vices and storage units, they're not going to fight about the changes to the status quo...
Trump did 1/6. This is just another Thursday for him.
The “uncertainty price” is being capitalized by the crypto bros, without rule of law. Suspension of the law for maga.
It’s the old “shooting the messenger” trope only it’s real And still all our elected officials just sit in the boiling pot
Why is mainstream media not pushing back more? They seem to be saying "nothing to see here...move along!"
They are afraid of Hitler, I mean Pewtin, I mean Orban, I mean, rump.
I know. SMH. 🤦♀️
So you cant fire people for being wildly wrong always feeding the media the marrative they desire?
Where has Larry Summers been the last 9 years?
who cares? he's an entrenched DNC who helped pave the way for where we are.
Too late to speak up now is what I mean, he should go back to appeasing the felon. When people in previously or presently important position sit quietly on the sidelines, they're in fact complicit.
Trump shouldn't be compared to politicians, he should be compared to mobster criminals.
And what did Summers Rubens and Greenspan do to the world?
Summers, Rubin, and Greenspan played major roles in shaping economic policies that many argue contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and growing economic inequality worldwide.
Exactly
Duhhh. Face facts, ppl. We are no longer LIVING in a democracy, it’s an authoritarian regime. Face facts & we can fight it. Stay in denial & it’s game over.
You are 8 months BEHIND Larry (face palm)
No shit Sherlock
Why is Larry Summers surprised "other officials aren't resigning?" That's the absolute WORST thing that can happen. For every good person that resigns, the orange shit stain can just drop in another of his fascist enablers... #FMAGA & #FDT
That crooked F doesn’t care he has his stolen money
We already have given way. We are an authoritarian country, whether people want that fact to mess with their summer vacations or not.
I wonder who will be able to afford summer vacations?
Agree
The United States has always been an authoritarian country. The authority is vested through capital.
“Whether people want that fact to mess with their summer vacations or not” is THE vibe I’m getting IRL this summer. Unsettling to say the least.
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You are becoming one. Still it is easier to reverse the process now than to let the country fall into full autocracy and then go back.
The Honorable President Richard Milhouse Nixon Patriotic Humanitarian was a Boy Scout an Altar Boy compared to the Incredible entrenched unstoppable NY Mob Boss Don the Con Teflon Drumpf 👀
And the media is normalizing the shit out of it
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What are you going to do America .....
This is just like if the GOP had impeached Biden on some made up scandal like he took money from foreign nations and was some kind of spy. Oh wait the Dems did that to Trump round 1.
If you have waited until now to become scared, you're seriously slow on the uptake!
Yes. No shit!
This dumb motherfucker should’ve supported Kamala. How is this surprising
Sounds like Stephen Harper, actually.
We all know this. We've been screaming it for years… So what? Who's gonna do anything about it? Congress? SCOTUS? 🤣
But hey, getting to own the libs eh, eh?
I watch 6 young men, basically happy with everything Trump is doing . I'm happy that I'm 73 because if their are future I'm terrified
Do they really know what he's doing? Honest question.
Pol Pot scary.
Is there ANY point at which his supporters stop buying the grift? Because I fear there is no end to the fealty.
Some one posted Far Reich. This description ? Was spot on the mark.
Anyone else miss President Joe Biden like I do? Those were the JOBS days… Let us repeat: tariffs do not work! Tariffs and uncertainty are NOT good for the economy!
The Republican party is a terrorist organization.
He is doing it all.
Ok yeah, now what. I could do this interview from my bed!
Its abominable!
Very little we can do without military support. That’s the elephant in the room. We can also pray for the tyrant to leave this earth but the MAGA movement and enablers are still around. The cult will need to suffer pain and loss and maybe they’ll awaken. If not, civil war.
MAGA followers are going to get hurt.They are going to suffer economic & health care losses, loss of loved ones, employment & service losses,supply losses, etc.It will catch up with them, no matter how much they ignore facts.The Greedy Oligarch Party is doing what they get away with until they don't
And I think that reality will finally break the cult. They will experience the betrayal. I hope then the maga movement dies. But we need a progressive movement and real fundamental system change. Our democracy failed. Our republic is susceptible to tyranny. Rebirth through the ashes.
I believe that we do not have the option to do nothing. Each of can do something, regardless how small. US citizens need to remember that, because the cost of doing nothing is too great. And hard as it can be, we need to be nice, because we have to be unified in saving our government.
Protests, boycotts and a national strike are all good to show solidarity. We are not alone and united. We have purpose. But tyranny isn’t overthrown through those means. However solidarity does gives one hope. Rebellions are built on hope.
This probably sounds odd, but I have followed history (among other subjects) and have marveled many times over the seemingly serendipitous events in the world. Both in individual lives and wars. It does not stop me from fighting, rather it encourages me.
My view of history is that change comes through sacrifice. And sometimes it’s violent and people die. But change doesn’t happen without action or movements. People need to get involved. Change also takes courage and hope. I will never underestimate People finding those things when the time comes.
Wont happen when you only have 2 options and both are sustained by corps. The system is already rot and the last election prove us that, america need more options until that happen its hopeless
That is why traitor tot won’t axe bro petey
Finally the word "authoritarianism" on MSM media. It's about time. We need more of this.
And there is no Barry Goldwater to say enough.
Let’s face it. The US is no longer on its way toward autocracy: It IS a kleptocratic autocracy. Why is everyone still acting surprised or warning about what could happen. It already has happened. Now watch SCOTUS take away the remaining voting rights. Nothing can undo the damage in a peaceful way.
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You know what failed, The judiciary system, they are a joke that allowed a convicted criminal run in the first place, after that whatever the court do that goes against potus its pretty much ignored, he can do whatever he wants no one can hold him accountable of his actions
The rot is now so deep it's hard to see a way back. The US Supreme Court and the selection process is undemocratic, the appointment of the entire judiciary is completely prejudiced and ineffective. The Election process, the Electoral College, all corrupted
