Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
I love Jamie Raskin. He’s a truth-teller 💙💙💙💙
Yes. I've been saying since the first tRump regime that the GOP has become a criminal enterprise. No more the party of law and order. DON'T FEED THE OLIGARCHS
Make Feed the Oligarchs
GIVE ANAL AND SUCK DICKS
He can commit any crime he wishes.
I wake up every morning wondering what chaos Trump has thought of to destroy the country and enrich himself.
Same.
You too?
Blah blah blah blah blah!!! Everywhere, everyone speaking about what’s going on and how the corruption has taken over the country. But yet no one’s doing a damn thing about it! Lots of lip service.
Exactly what I'm thinking! All talk, no action!
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The GOP controls congress. They are complicit in these crimes since they won’t take action to stop him.
This excuse is used to often to excuse Democratic inaction.
What we need is the kind of action that was taken during the fight for equal rights. Those rights are being systematically erased, and we shall all suffer unless we do something.
Dems can refuse to participate, which would grind Congress to a halt. Nothing could move. They have the power to completely shut this down. But…fear…cowardice. Easier just to post.
Sure - if ALL Republicans aren’t present in the House or Senate and a quorum call is issued, then no work gets done. What’s the point? Nothing is getting done anyway in this congress. What we need is a general strike in this country and some well-attended marches and sit-ins.
This is the part I'm baffled by. I'm all for mass protests but where are the boycotts, the strikes, the sit-ins?? There are more of us than there are of them!
100%
So do a sit in.. they should do something
The morale of our country is low because the people we elected whether democrat or Republican are doing nothing they’ve given up .. and then they tell us we need to be doing something while they go on 1 month vacations
At least Tony felt so bad about it all that he had to speak with a shrink.
It's nothing personal, just business!
It's an open secret that Trump's terrified of appearing weak or losing his faculties. The bitter irony? His daily public appearances are now a masterclass in the very cognitive decline he dreads. The fear is real, but so is the evidence.
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And he is OK with cutting dementia research
He’s cutting EVERYTHING where does he pocket that money…he’ll spend it all and we’ll have nothing left
Again, we’ve known all of this. Actually, we’ve been pleading with you all to Do Something about it from the start!
WE THE PEOPLE!!! GET OUT AND PROTEST!!! June 14!
We need MILLIONS to protest❗️
Donaldo Taco T., his brainless family, and the government made up of amateur politicians are ripping the USA off like a Christmas goose. They're using their power and their positions to sniff out the American people. This is a total abuse of power and really only occurs in autocratic states.
you might want to keep a copy of this handy, just in case. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is fascinating!
Exactly! Let them see all of us because I doubt they are concerned about what we are saying on here. Make a sign, join a protest, and Be Loud.
I agree! Yes!!! We can motivate each other on here, get info out, organize… But until we TAKE TO THE STREETS ENMASSE, showing the FASCISTS that WE ARE COMING FOR THEM, it won’t mean a thing!
Agreed!
THIS! ☝️👏👏👏
👍🏼🙌🏼💪🏼🖕🏼👊🏼 YES!!!
Agreed, we know the Republicans are purposely lying and planning to screw over Americans after midterms without anyone noticing, I honestly don’t care what they say because they are screwing us over and enough of the radical left nonsense or hate groups please, I am so done with the Republicans. 🤬
He tells it like it is. 💙💙💙
Democrats when someone is more successful at graft than them.
So why didn't you do something when you still had the chance to? You knew this was coming.
Donnie Soprano. It fits.
OMG !! Then why is nothing being done about it ???? 🤦♀️
EXACTLY what I say every. single. day.
Amen! Yes exactly like that.
So true.
We. KNOW!
Oligarch appointed fotus is constitutionally illegitimate, there is that also.
Link to video source below. The section with Raskin starts at about 8:30.... youtu.be/f2mu-eMZ2E8
”So grotesque and preposterous are the principal characters in this galaxy of clowns and crooks that none but a thrice double ass could have taken them for rulers." —Officer, Nuremberg Trials.
If it's an unconstitutional, illegal regime, why do states have any responsibility to follow its mandates? They broke the contract. That should make it null and void. It's beyond time that Democratic leaders start pointing this out.
This. Tell your state constituents to stop paying taxes and protect them from anyone trying to collect them. For staters. If the federal government is bent on using our tax dollars to oppress the people for a corrupt “king”, they shouldn’t get any.
We are truly alive in 1770s America lmfao
I would say that “maybe that’s what they meant by MAGA all along”, but we all have known that they really meant a return to the Gilded Age so they could play rich magnates over our corpses.
No shit, do something about it more than ask for money for Schumer and Pelosi to fart in chairs and wait for death.
Seems like this is all he can do.
Like watching the “Godfather “.
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Then fire up the Journey
SAY IT! SAY IT OUT LOUD! THIS AS A GANGSTER STATE! RICO! RICO! RICO!
Don’t forget: a taco 🌮 rico (tasty) is not a TACO RICO 🤑 (rich) The first one is the food and the second one is the Orange 🍊 Clown 🤡 and his CrimeGang TACO 🌮 RICO 🤑 TACO 🌮 RICO 🤤 TACO 🌮 RICO 🤑 TACO 🌮 RICO 🤤 TACO 🌮 RICO 🤑 TACO 🌮 RICO 🤤
#cryptogate
Thank Garland
So do something about it, Sir!
We need a lot more Jamie Raskins. 💙 him!
He’s so full of shit. Do some real investigating. He just reads the news and comments
Yes
To do what? State the obvious more?
I’d refrain from “gangster state” and “sopranos” - that’s what they want. They get off on that kind of lingo. Why not “decrepit and bloated taco state run by a greedy and senile pumpkin tits”
Seriously. It's irritating that these politicians are out here talking to us like we don't already know this stuff. I guess we're all pals now in not being able to even curb this madness.
Because you may know this stuff does not mean others know this stuff. Too many people get their "news" from sites like facebook and techbros write algorithms that are about keeping people engaged, not informed. billionaires/techbros that control media elected trump. Join every protest you can!
Thanks for the advice.
Just imagine a government like this in France (for example)… it wouldn’t last a week. The way the American people roll over, look away, don’t seem to care, etc is simply astonishing. Until it concerns them personally. But then, naturally, no one else cares.
Yes
What is happening to America is frustrating at best. But don’t go blaming the victim until you’ve witnessed the entire crime. We’ve been pinched between a do-nothing legal system and the GOP selling out to Russia. We have long been screaming protests, but MSM covers this for you as a whisper.
I’m talking about real protest. I simply don’t understand.
There is nothing to organize FOR, only protest against. There is no such thing as America, only a hypothetical future no one know how to achieve. There’s also, sickeningly, no consensus that naziism or businessmen pillaging the people is wrong or even weird
Ah yes, finger pointing. Easier than real action. We’re witnessing the entire crime, as well as the stunning lack of meaningful response.
“The way the American people roll over, look away, don’t seem to care, etc is simply astonishing.” While pretending to be brave defenders of liberty and a nation of courageous freedom fighters.
We were on holiday in Paris during the taxation uprising in '18. While it was truly unsettling & frightening, I applaud the citizens to rise up & force change. Unfortunately, we have to walk a very thin line in the current regime because FFOTUS is antsy to invoke martial law. We'd be screwed!
That’s my point! Americans have become so fearful. 🐓 If there are millions and millions on the streets, the government will be afraid of THEM.
Not fearful, comfortable. It's easy to sit back and let things happen so long as they happen to other people, especially when you've been convinced that those other people are the entire problem.
We do
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#Raskin #Aipac b!tch removed the b∆ttplug they lodged i him and comes here like he's a tough guy 😂😂😂😂
No doubt. Exactly. Stating the obvious. Daily. Now what do we do?
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The J6 insurgents, his homies, daddy Kushner, rapists, fraudsters, and the Christley's walking around free is proof that Trump's corrupt enterprise has grown expotentually. Those who think he loves cops must know he only loves dirty ones and they love him back.
“One of these days I’m going to ask you for a favor” Don Corleone
"But until that day, accept this favor as a gift on my daughter's wedding day." Don Corleone
Perfectamundo! May your first son be a masculine son 🤓. Gee, this was fun…👍
He’s not wrong.
Please read + share: "In the emotive battle against the ‘disease of wokeness’, Trump's an inspiration to far-right wannabies who crave the same despotic power. If Reform wins the next general election, the cruel madness of Trumpworld could take root here." westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/six...
And like all a-holes, they get up and once again *have* to prove to the world what scuzzy rotten jerks they are. 😠
Israël?
That is absolutely true.
US media, like both US parties, are conducting & covering up a genocide of 200,000, 300,000 or more Palestinians by tiny Israel. US corporations & weapons sellers are making huge profits from genocide & land theft.
Yup. And both these dudes are as much a part of the genocide as Trump is.
Your whole accout just makes excuses for trump
Not at all. I’m highly critical of Trump policy of genocide in Palestine. Unforgivable. Like tariffs though. Of all your posted criticisms of Trump, genocide oddly not one of them? Weird. Seems important issue. What are your thoughts on issue? Do you call it genocide? #gaza
Come on, fotus wants the Gaza Strip for a Mediterranean Resort! Israel, namely BiBi will do anything he says!
Worse, they have control of some of the ways we normally use to control or stop this behavior. The DOJ under Pam Bondi is the muscle. Disgusting.
Cool this was on MSNBC. Hope the masses are hearing this.
I wish. Ever notice how some version of trump news - oops, I meant “Fox News” - is available for free on nearly every TV streaming service? MSNBC tends to be limited to the higher-priced subscriptions.
The guys are way too candy-assed to be gangsters. The Trump administration is more like UnitedHealthcare, where pillage in the point of the enterprise, and any sign of principle will get you whacked from your corner office.
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The 2nd part of this discussion needs to be Democrats laying out their plan to hold them accountable if/when they take back power. We know they’re bad. What are you going to do about it @raskin.house.gov ?
What do you suggest? Republicans control Congress.
Reread what I wrote. Laying out the actions you are going to take to hold them accountable once you have power is the next and most important message Dems can deliver right now. We all know they’re bad. What will you do when you have power?
At this point the Dems are as performative as the GOP are.
Exactly. Performative makes the base feel good but it doesn’t increase likely Dem voters on the margins.
I’ll add another issue for Dems they don’t pick a couple things to just hammer home non stop for 4 years straight. And then tie everything that happens to the things they are hammering. People are dumb and for some reasons Dems haven’t figured out lesser language that works
So what are they going to do So far, not a fucking thing! DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHINE! The people are So you better!!!!!!!!!
The worst about this is, republicans are so much better organized than we are. They had a plan and went for it, I havent heard of any plan from a dem in power.
This is a democracy. We voted Republicans into power, so they are the people who have the ability to do things (mostly they are using that ability to enrich themselves). The people we don't vote into power can only talk. If you want Democrats to do something, you must vote to give them power first.
There are plenty of elected Democrats. Some hold office themselves, some have minority powers like the filibuster. Some are using these powers and fighting with everything they've got, others are constantly "waiting for the right moment" or just plain rolling over.
(In case it needs to be said: The last ones need to be shouted at until they either shape up or make way for the first ones.)
There are in fact not plenty of elected Democrats since the only thing that actually matters is which party holds power - & Democrats do not hold any national power - not the Senate, not the House, not the Presidency, & not the Supreme Court. The filibuster is near dead anyway but Dems have used it
Yes, *national* power (and even then there are moments where Democrats can resist, like with the budget). There are 23 Democratic state governors. Some of them are rolling over and some of them are answering every naked power grab with "see you in court" - which still gets them wins weirdly often.
Just like there are countless local officials who can choose to obey in advance or become a nuisance. So much of Trump's power isn't taken, but given freely.
Sure, and plenty of that is happening. It just doesn't matter much except on the margins. If you don't like what Trump/Republicans are doing, then voting for Democrats in 2026 and 2028 is what matters.
NO What are WE going to do? We the People need to protest, sit in, march, every act of civil disobedience should be used. We need to Fight, Fight, Fight until the MF leaves! We need numbers to get out there and demand he stop his criminal actions. June 14 - NO KINGS! Let's go!
Hell yeah!
don't miss, you may not get another shot
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Yes and it’s something we can do together. It’s time we take this heartless fascist cruelty to the streets: Please come together and Rise Up on No Kings Day, Sat. June 14th (Flag Day). Find an event, tell 3 friends, bring a flag, a sign and tell the world this is not who we are. www.nokings.org
Also, June 6 is the 50501 protest march in defense of the Constitution! We need millions on the streets in defense of democracy! SEE YOU THERE???
I have gone to at least 10 marches These assholes keep scheduling These marches on Fridays and Saturdays I work.... I own my own business so it's difficult to continuously take time away in order to do this....... That's why I want to see more fight from our elected officials!
Yes, I understand. My husband was a business owner. You can't just do what you want. We all have to do what we can. I don't know if our leaders are doing enough but I'm damn sure not going to leave my kids with this mess and not fight tooth and nail to stop it.
I agree! Where are solid character Congress officials, MSM, etc. We do all we can though. Good for you to make time in your busy life! Strength and respect sent.
I encourage you to follow @ariellaelm.bsky.social. She reports on daily actions Democrats are taking to fight back. MSM isn’t going to cover it, so we rely on people like her who seek it out and share it. 🙏🏼
So who the hell is in charge? I believe it's a government of the people by the people. Well brother the people have had enough of this BS. I believe our Democratic representatives are only scraping the surface of this issue. This is a government of the corrupt by the corrupt. Tick tick tick 💥
Why is this gangster state being allowed??????
Good question
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An insult to The Sopranos; they were smarter about their criminal activities, for the most part. Also, they have better assassins.
Yeah, we know, but what the hell are you going to do about it? Write some strongly worded letters & approve more cabinet members???
That's what Putin and the oligarchs did to Russia. Putin is probably giving Trump pointers
Bullshit! This is so fucking corrupt and cringey, there’s no actual example in media to compare it to, because if you wrote this and tried to pitch it as fiction, it would be too laughably bad. If you multiplied the Three Stooges by 100, threw in Abbot & Costello and the cast of the Producers, and
replaced everyone’s soul with the burnt husk from the toaster oven at the end of Time Bandits, it still wouldn’t compare.
So DO SOMETHING about it for fucks sake
He’s not wrong.
The Democratic Party needs to chill out when it comes to supporting Hamas. Lots of Jews are upset with us.
Seperation of Church and State. The 3 Abrahamic religions are why we have so much violence in the world. Our government shouldn't support any religious wars.
Completely agree!
That’s exactly what they are a bunch of gang bangers acting like they’re within the bounds of the law
So what can be done?! Do we class action sue Drumpf and his Admin for cheating us and misspending our tax dollars and illegally shutting down agencies, firing civil servants, denying immigrants due process and shipping them out of the country on our dime. **We need guidance!! We need Action!!**
you might want to keep a copy of this handy, just in case. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Tony Soprano is a pretty bad guy but he would have been significantly less evil and corrupt than any of these goons
I call my GOP reps and senators daily and tell them to grow a spine and stop this. They never even return the calls but I have never called DC so much in my life. They do NOT give a damn and are onboard 💯. If you’re not a wealthy donor it’s a big FU. What do we even get for FICA now?
Robbed some more...
And Where TF are our PAID legislators to STOP the Madness?....
You're right.
The Sopranos were smarter, more compassionate, and far better criminals. Fuck Temu Capone.
Yup.
You are absolutely right, our gov being run by a bunch of monbsters.
It's not like people couldn't see it coming The only thing I can think of is that too many of them chose not to look bsky.app/profile/will...
Well, Trump seceded from the Constitution early on. And since that's the only thing that says he's the president, he's not really the president anymore. He's something else.
The rest of the world is waiting for Americans to live up to their pledges of Allegiance, for us military people to actually act on the "foreign and domestic" part and for American companies to demand capitalism instead of bribing the president.
Then I guess Chuck Schumer better write a strongly-worded letter. 🤷♂️
It’s a criminal enterprise
Oh thank god you're ... pointing things out. Is this a race for the Captain Obvious title or what? is there any plan at all to do something about any of this???
Trump should take note of what's happening in China and beware. No quarter in dictatorships. Uneasy lies the head & all that. Putin's paranoid & Xi's hanging on but might be overthrown in a coup. Purges & two of his appointees already been arrested and committed 'suicide' after questioning.
Quarreling with my 'lil sister as we grew up, she frequently would say: "Talk what you know!" Well I drew upon this while listening to Jamie Raskin. He knows what is going on... "an essentially corrupt enterprise" anxious to take over. Who, then, is Trump? Head of the Suprano Family?
Book your FREE two seat reservation now for Trump’s Bday Parade… and for heaven’s sake don’t book two seats and not show up, but attend the NO KINGS parades all around the country on the same day! That would not make America Great!!! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸 events.america250.org/events/250th...
Wait .. the seats are free? Will there be hot dogs?
Yoh, puh. ROW told you so in the summer of last year.
I’d like to ask the military to overthrow this administration on behalf of the American people who want a legit President in office, not a mob boss.
It is their job to protect the constitution- which seems to be a conflict of interest for the current scotus. We need help!
Finally! Saying it like it is.
I trust Jamie Raskin to keep calling out every aggregiously corrupt and illegal act the Republicans try to get away with...thank you and keep it up!
jamie raskin is a national treasure.
It would be nice if Raskin got more exposure or, better, if every Democrat talked this way. It connects three unpopular things: 1. Trump’s personal criminality—bribes, extortion, tariff shakedowns; 2. Musk’s lawless looting; 3. The Republican Congress’s legislative looting.
My thought , too. Floor the media, billboards, NY Times Square, etc.!
Ok, there is something we can all do together. It’s time we take this heartless fascist cruelty to the streets: Please come together and Rise Up on No Kings Day, Sat. June 14th (Flag Day). Find an event, tell 3 friends, bring a flag, a sign and tell the world this is not who we are. www.nokings.org
Raskin is a loser and a charlatan.
Yes and there is something we can do together. It’s time we take this heartless fascist cruelty to the streets: Please come together and Rise Up on No Kings Day, Sat. June 14th (Flag Day). Find an event, tell 3 friends, bring a flag, a sign and tell the world this is not who we are. www.nokings.org
Will be there.
Exactly. A perfect description!
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Election denial used to (mainly) be a feature of the right.
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So tired of the “what crime did he do today” scenario. We all know needs to be in jail and the whole world despises him. The orange taco abomination of America, I’m so embarrassed.
Me too.
I’m furious!
Perfect summation. Raskin is on 🎯
Is he talking about the US or Israel? Correct in both cases.
And??? What are you Democrats planning to do about it? If it was the other way around republicans would have put an end to this regime already! At this point democrats are just “talking to the hand” 🤯
GOP's Could impeach Invoke 25th Amendment He has clearly Presented dementia starting in 1st term Witnessed by inner circle Instead cowardly GOPs Cower in the corner w/orange lips We've seen/heard actual mafia style Threats they've received None brave enough to stand up Romney McConnell Graham
Frmr moderate McCain style Rep W/Dem social values 'Til Taco's 2016 nom For DECADES heard of MANY Harmed by TACO Mafia bullying Suing small bizs out of biz To avoid paying them Raskin 100% accurate GOP has majority SCOTUS=bought COWARDS WHERE ARE PEOPLE FROM 1st Admin Who know things Mike Pence
I agree 💯 with you. I want to scream do something.
Disrupt the narrative. Expose corruption. Leak the truth. No money needed — just courage, urgency, and ordinary people willing to disrupt the fascist takeover playbook.
This is a democracy. We voted Republicans into power, so they are the people who have the ability to do things (mostly they are using that ability to enrich themselves). The people we don't vote into power can only talk. If you want Democrats to do something, you must vote to give them power first.
What is destroyed is not easily rebuilt. See, the Republicans are taking advantage of that inverse situation.
We could impeach him if the republicans stopped being afraid and would vote to impeach. Otherwise the dems don’t have the votes. But if we did it to shame repugs, maybe that would turn a few.
They should try, every day. Keep introducing articles of impeachment and let the list of offenses grow!
25th Amendment Would be quicker
Vance is all ego-positioned up for the presidency. It is folly to impeach trump without also removing Vance.
Republicans that are bucking MAGA need to find their moral compass first, whatever the hell that is.
Oh that's super interesting. I really appreciate your point. What would Republicans have done?
Until some real action is taken to reign them in, it's just all talk. If most of us don't support it, it's time for protests. Protests like nobody has ever seen.
might want to keep a copy of this handy, just in case. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
And they just got started 🤬
Exactly! And the GQP does nothing to stop it! They condone it and some benefit financially!
💯… and at least 1/3 of Americans are okay with that. NONE of them can deflect and say, “This is not what I voted for…” because Trump has been a mob boss for 40 years. He spelled out his cruel, racist, bigoted intentions DAILY, and yet these people voted for him. They got what they voted for.
Thugocracy
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It’s WAR. It’s the MAGGOTS or US. What side are you going to fight on?
And everyone knows it but dems aren’t doing anything about it
Say it in digits 86 47
Getting rid of Trump doesn’t miraculously make everything better. The underlying racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia, and fascism is still there - as 75+million Americans proved. Not to mention the 80+million who refused to vote rather than vote against this. America is not a safe or nice place.
Correction though: Many Americans were deliberately kept from voting through targeted #GOPVoterSuppression at all levels. Hundreds of thousands of voters purged, votes discarded on technicalities, but ONLY in blue-voting areas. Physical threats. Intimidation. #GOPElectionFTampering
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Exactly. And it is not basically illegitimate. It is. Full stop. A couple of times over.
Watching from Canada, I have to agree. So: what are you folks going to do about it? Please: Make your thoughts and voices HEARD! 🙏🏽✊🏼
1000%
This is so true! What a mess! It’s all about bringing in money for Trump, and all about getting revenge against any person or government agency that disagreed with him.
The MAGA/GOP set out to elect a convicted felon, who has since pardoned violent convicted felons, appointed felons, and filled Cabinet positions and Department Heads who Owe fealty to DJT alone due to inadequate education and experience to warrant their own positions& to Rule by whim and by TWEET
The Golden Dawn party in Greece was outlawed as a criminal enterprise. Worth considering.
We’re there.
Greece is a multiparty parliamentary system. Golden Dawn only ever had ~10% of the vote. America has half the country (and many still, even now) falling for Trump’s BS. Still, they did use the courts. Just found this & maybe there’s something to it for Americans www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...
He’s going to pardon Diddy. Just watch.
TACO is just biding his time on tootsie roll diddly-a good amount 🤑💰💵
And yet @raskin.house.gov has not once directly called for the impeachment of the President leading this "gangster state" and "corrupt enterprise". Genuinely astonishing. @citizensimpeachment.com @maydaymovementusa.bsky.social
Seeing as how both houses and the judiciary are controlled by the Republicans, how far do you think that would get?
That's a far question. Farther than we are currently getting by refusing to fully acknowledge reality and speak out to hold the President to account for his actions while he's in office. Dems need to show that they are the party of accountability, which they are failing to do.
Yup. This is exactly what it feels like because it's exactly what it is.
Jaimie is a good guy, and a great talker. When's he gonna put some skin in the game...?
He literally started drafting impeachment papers on January 6. A few days after his son killed himself. Then prosecuted the impeachment trial. He ain’t perfect, but acting like he’s all talk? Come on.
And he had to deal with a cancer diagnosis and treatment and still showed up to work most of the time. He's done more than most.
So true!!!
I totally agree, this Trump regime, this 34 x convicted Trump should never have been President. The fact that this could have happened in democratic US tells me that the constitution is totally out of order and needs to be changed.
Actually, I think it needs to be followed. The current regime is ignoring it, destroying it.
🎯 it’s irrelevant
💯 A constitution that still allows slavery, has no ERA, has an electoral college, is tough to amend, has weak checks & balances, no right to health care, no built-in DEI, & a overweighted executive branch (unlike a parliamentary system) is a failure
Bingo.
Agreed. Gangsters and a crime syndicate.
Amen!
If he believes this then where are the articles of impeachment against any of the corrupt actors who are government employees?
I really like Jamie Raskin.
Well, you should definitely give unanimous consent to everyone of his nominees and then don’t impeach him just complain. That’ll fix it thanks, Jamie.
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It’s fubar
Mob boss and minions
Including the majority of scotus. Unbelievable.
Agreed, but regrettably, there are vast numbers of people who are too blind, too stupid, or too much in denial to object.
But what do we do about it? Anybody?? Who is going to stop this nightmare before it’s too late??
You're right and Tony Soprano was brighter, had more personality and was better liked than Don Don!
He also had a smidge of conscience, unlike Taco Don.
Yep, sad but true.
We are actually living through a time when the United States has become the largest banana republic in the world. When all it takes to get out of jail is to bribe the President, (A $million will do it, thanks). When all it takes to get special tax treatment for your co. is to bribe the President.
@refusefascism.bsky.social
This is a long, but necessary MUST READ by Dr Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social that recaps the news today and these 4 months. It’s all Horrifying. Cruel. And DJT has definitely been a gangster. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-30-2025
Then mess something up, break things, reset.
Ah this was “that pigmy thing over there” Phil was talking about.
How is this being allowed? He is so vile corrupt disgusting despicable…
Nailed it !!!!
#MAGAisaTerroristMovement. MAGA is a terrorist movement. Pass it on
Messaging from the top handed directly down to our state elected politicians further conveying the message. Absolutely disgusting.
Thank you, Jamie, for saying what everyone is thinking!
It's so horrifying! I have to remind myself that I'm not reading about a 3rd world country.. this is MY COUNTRY!!!!😮💨😱
Trump is stealing Americas future to feed his fragile ego and pad his bank account
Building an empire for his lover offspring.
Loser offspring, lol. Fuck auto correct
That sounds about right, Senator Raskin. Trump and his family are thieving in plain sight. The scale of the corruption is staggering. He has put an entire nation up for sale. The reputational damage to brand USA is going to be catastrophic.
“And that’s why we shall continue to courageously sit idly by and wait for the midterms”
The midterms that in all likelihood won't happen.
Precisely
What will be left by then?
Need more anger and emotion in those voices.
No one can prove an actual deal took place, but the tacit agreement sure seems to be: - Foreign interests help the GOP build gangster authoritarianism in the U.S. - GOP stops the U.S. interfering with those interests’ foreign policy objectives
The U.S. won the Cold War in 45 years, and then lost the peace in 25. The post-Soviet mafia state was a better Russian export than Marxism-Leninism ever was. The GOP was a very good customer because their problem with the Soviet state was the (professed) leftism, not the tyranny. (2/x)
It must be wild to be a neoconservative who still remembers American hegemony at the End of History(TM), now watching the Republican Party gleefully replicating Chinese state capitalism and Russian mafiocracy. It’s certainly wild for a former neocon (hi! 👋) (3/x)
And no one is stopping him. He continues to get away with all his illegal actions. He is not being held accountable. How do we get our country back? We can’t count on the Republicans, the courts, or even the Democrats. The Democrats don’t know how to fight. Republicans won’t fight.
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thanks to fucking M.Garland
Garland is the worst AG we have ever had, except for Bondi.
@raskin.house.gov yeah we know. Now what are you going to do about it?
Ya know something ? Folks , by now i know America's problems at the back of my hands , her achillies heel , her weaknesses , the very things that will sink her , ya know what breaks my heart ? I can't do a damn thing to save her becos the very system she pivots on IS NOT ON HER SIDE , IT'S FLAWED
a cycle we see all over—personal, political, global. The “help me, help me” chorus kicks in after the storm hits, but during the calm? No prep, no foresight, no self-reflection. Just business as usual, waiting for the next catastrophe to turn into someone else’s moral obligations
Kinda like Gaza , get fcked , cry , help me help me but in good times to at least to take evasive actions , na , dun give a fck , waitin for some kind hearted fool toclean up the mess as usual , vicious deadly loop
Ya but ah , ya think the voters wanna changed that ? Out of our hands now ...i am more a pre emptive person rather than reactive sadly this is not to case to give me enough workin space to do corrective surgery
Brazen Widespread Corruption 👀 welcome to the Age of Drumpf
Watching The Sopranos is voluntary, and you can turn them off.
In fact, I have never watched an episode of this show. Feeling good about that now given the comparison...
I find it interesting that the show was lauded, but in reality we do not want these characters in charge. Maybe The Sopranos made us more comfortable with corruption?
To be expected, when voters elect a Mobster as POTUS—ain’t no two ways about it!
The people are complicit. Jamie Raskin is one small nugget of hope. A truth teller.
We should take to the streets and protest. But if we do that, that's their prompt to declare martial law and stop further elections.
They are trying to ruin elections regardless
He forgot to mention extortion of foreign countries by imposing economy-wrecking tariffs, selling pardons, crypto schemes, government contracts to cronies, insider trading…all out in the open.
Yes Jamie you are 💯 % correct Donnie’s mafia gang
It's like the Corleone family, but run by Fredo.
Gold!😂😂😂
Well, please ask the military to take care of us!
Jamie Raskin was especially well spoken tonight on Chris Hayes. Everything he said is true.
I like Jamie. He’s a fighter.
I refer to T**** as "The Don" or #DONUS for a reason. #impeach47 #resist #voteblue #stopMAGA
The USA is a failed state that cannot even enforce clear SCOTUS and/or circuit/state court orders. It capitulated so quickly and easily to the Project 2025 agenda, one wonders whether Americans have been harbouring a desire for a “strong man” dictatorship since they kicked out the English.
This whole episode really does expose the underling weakness of American society,. . How was this clearly deranged sociopathic ego-monster elected twice? What is the underling failure of the American system that let this happen? Greed & stupidity to be sure, but what else? Miseducation?
Election was rigged by Elon Musk who Trump said "knows those vote counting computers better than anybody". Why didn't Democrats follow up?
Uneducated, misinformed, circus-watching people; apathetic people; racists; easily bribed people in the voting system; and Musk helping it all along...among any other disgusting failures you can find that let that orange roach and his pooplets into our government. Who's got the bug spray that works?
The failure of independent news, both broadcast and print. All captured by billionaires
All of those that kow-tow to him, yes.
Vote Reps out when their time is up. Get in their faces daily! Don't leave them any peace; they're not leaving us any. Make them as miserable as possible, wherever they go. You see them coming: no access to the store. Shut THEM out. A taste of their own medicine. Daily!
Start with Sen. Ernst! Who has a lifetime of a fabulous medical plan, that will never be canceled!!
Isn't it rich how he'd gladly strip us of ours but keep his trump-chewed ass on it?
Yes and there is something we can do together. It’s time we take this heartless fascist cruelty to the streets: Please come together and Rise Up on No Kings Day, Sat. June 14th (Flag Day). Find an event, tell 3 friends, bring a flag, a sign and tell the world this is not who we are. www.nokings.org
You ignore how the people did this. There are clearly millions of ignorant, selfish, self-serving racist clowns in America and they vote Republican, the party of traitors and cowards. THAT'S the weakness of American society.
A fairly obvious one is the vast difference is how 'justice' plays out for the wealthy, connected, and privileged. If, with evidence of serious criminal conduct, Trump had even been put on house arrest, if, convicted of multiple felonies, he was barred from office? we wouldn't be here.
Yes! They have been gutting our educational system in the name of “STEM” for all my adult life. This is the result.
Failure to engage with the news, news deserts & ghost newspapers.
Wonder if the GOP after Trump would support an amendment to establish some minimums for president. No criminal convictions, no allowing to run businesses while in office, things like that. or would the GOP be outraged it would disqualify too many of them.
We could sure use better general science education. Critical thinking exercises. More information about OTHER countries science projects. We seem to be barely cognizant of U.S. achievements, let alone other countries!
No. What you need is to teach people how to think better, and how our government works. This is the result of gutting social sciences and anything not viewed as “essential to tech” in K-12 education. I see it with my own kids. They’re taught to regurgitate facts, not to think deeply.
Notme, How is that a “no?”
In classrooms of ‘normal’ size, it will always be “catch-as-catch-can” in optimizing the potential of each student.
Tribalism. A complete unwillingness to look beyond one's street corner. Look at Pope Leo's MAGA brother. He's not stupid but he's unwilling to look at counterfactuals.
He’s not wrong. And he’s smarter than the entire lot of them.
I hope Raskin keeps up the pressure
Two words. Military. Intervention.
Two words. Enemy Domestic.
Time is running out for America
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying this for at least five years
Ten years! But that's not even close to David Cay Johnston who's been saying it for 40. Or the late Wayne Barrett. The question to ask is why officials like Raskin did not do anything meaningful about this obvious crisis that was extremely well documented in the public domain.
All u r doing is saying Trump really isn’t that bad
Trump is a fascist, just like all the ones before him. AmeriKKKa is, and always has been, a cancer on this planet.
Does it matter what colour the flag when both support and enable genocide and war crimes and war for resources? The bombs have no allegiance.
Seeing that list, I wanna ask where do you go for news? What do you consider reliable independent reporting?
You wouldn't look at them. Looking at your TL, you are happy to be ignorant, of history, and politics.
Thanks for judging without giving me the tools necessary to change my mind. Cool. I was asking sincerely.
Sure you were.
pretty much sums it up
Don’t equivocate Trump with anybody else. He is uniquely corrupt, cruel and incompetent. I hate when people try this shit.
He is a fascist, just like all the ones before him. You just hate the truth, that AmeriKKKa is a white supremacist, terrorist state.
The Dems are either complicit or cluelessly clutching their "norms." If they refused to see it 20, 10, 5 years ago, Project 2025 should have been a wake up call. Shame on all of them!
Colluding.
Project 2025 was written in 2023 and 2024 and Democrats warned people about it constantly. American voters voted for Republicans anyway. Kind of crazy to blame the Democrats who warned us, for the actions of Republicans.
Exactly. But they didn't seem to take it seriously and get out ahead of it. They are still wringing their hands and expecting norms to save the day, looking to judges and 2026, which may not happen.
Democrats talked about it all the f'ng time in 2024. Voters didn't care. Democrats cared. But American voters in general did not.
Yes. They did talk about it.
The whole world new about Project 2025, and was warned by not only the democrats, but former gop’s. Don’t blame the Democrats! MSM didn’t talk about enough! And faux news sure didn’t!
“Knew”.
What can they do? Honest question- I thought they can start with impeachment attempts but only 2 people even tried. What else can they do as a minority party now?
Raskin voted to impeach him. twice.
Those three impeachment charges were pale in comparison to the dozens of crimes committed by Trump. Voting to impeach was one of the least things Raskin could have done.
He was the prosecutor in at least one of them IIRC.
Most Democrats do nothing and suck, but Raskin has been fighting Trump tooth and nail as a frontliner ever since Raskins son killed himself in December 2016
His son died in December 2020. A week before January 6.
Thank you! Had that confused
Kleptocracy, “Government of thieves.” It’s okay if you’re not familiar with the word. It hasn’t been so neatly descriptive since the Harding Administration.
Kakistocracy, “government by the worst”.
And yet --- there has been essentially NO effort to impeach. (I understand: Republicans have the votes to prevent an impeachment resolution from going anywhere. But the way you stand up for the rule of law is to demand that it be enforced; in this case, that means demanding impeachment)
People are getting sick & tired of BAD NEWS DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY !! IT'S LIKE HIDING IN YOUR HURRICANE/TORNADO SHELTER PERMANENTLY!!!!!!!!
We won't sit by patiently while tRump plays his disgusting games. He has never done a good deed in his LIFE! Why should we expect him to change? The only thing he cares about is money so he can feel like he measures up to real Hero's. He will NEVER MEASURE UP~!
The whole lot of them are in on it - an "essentially corrupt enterprise."
And the syndicate is international.
There is an international push into the far right.
Power & wealth are the core
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Yep, that is what we have.
Called the free gravy train.
We know this, @raskin.house.gov so what we need YOU and your worthless cohorts to do is STOP being constrained by the "rules" the other side refuses to play by and DO SOMETHING.
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If only he was placed in a position where he could do something! Oh welll.
"Anyone who stands up for the rule of law gets in there way." They need to be stopped now! Right now!
When Raskin is right, he’s right. Keep it going Raskin.
No shit!! Please do something about it!!!!!
This could be describing Doug Ford and his gang
Hmm sounds like my magat neighbors 🤔
People deserve better than a system where public officials wake up looking for new ways to enrich themselves at our expense. We can’t fix what we won’t name. If it looks like The Sopranos, sounds like The Sopranos, and steals like The Sopranos… you get the picture.
The CORRUPTION is throughout the House & Senate as well… that’s why Impeachment is so “iffy”. Will our military choose their oath to our Constitution over Nazi Fascist Shitler? Because Civil War is imminent!
Meanwhile, where’s Chuck? His BlueSky account say @handle.invalid - and I would have to agree. Chuck Schumer is a weak leader who should step down. We need Democrats willing to fight fire with fire! This is a fucking coup!!!
Americans voted to put Republicans in power. There is literally nothing Democrats can do to stop any of this. Not one single thing, except wait till 2026 and 2028 and try to persuade Americans to put them into power. Once Democrats are in power (if that happens), only then can they change anything.
Bullshit! We the People need to protest, sit in, march, every act of civil disobedience should be used. We need to Fight, Fight, Fight until the MF leaves! We need numbers to get out there and demand he stop his criminal actions. June 14 - NO KINGS! Let's go!
Ok, go protest. That's fine. It just makes 0 difference whatsoever unless it changes (positively or negatively) the likelihood of people voting in 2026 & 2028 & how they vote. Because protests are in & of themselves utterly useless. Policy is decided through political power -which comes from voting.
Ok. Sit on your hands and do nothing. Maybe someone else will fix it for ya. Historically it's taken 3.5% of the population to move the needle. crowdsourcingsustainability.org/only-takes-3.... Our actions will move the people to vote! #FireThemUp!
I vote. I donate. I volunteer for campaigns. If protesting motivates people who were Republican voters to not vote Republican, or motivates non-Democrat voters to vote Democrat then I'm all for it - it makes a difference then.
Then thank you for your actions. But please Encourage others to do the same. We need each and every person to get out there.
nokings.org
☝🏾THIS! #resist #nokings #fightback
Yeah but with no hot Tony....
Love how Ds go on all the "friendly" news shows & sell themselves in an echo chamber. They make it look like they're being productive, but they're not. If they want to be productive they shld set up interviews w/hosts of the 6:30 pm nightly news programs, Fox, The View & other day/night talk shows.
It would be unproductive for them NOT to do it. Maybe there's a way they could do it elsewhere or better, but I'm glad they ARE doing it. They are going on record. The more, the better.
do you not understand that Fox gets to decide who comes on and what they talk about? what makes you think Fox wants to platform the truth?
Apparently Miss Scarlett is as dumb as one might have suspected from her choice of an ID.
What would that really accomplish though? Fox has shown that they have no issues with lying 24/7. How do you make an impact on that?
Pete Buttigieg is always brilliant on Fox. Probably why they don’t ask him on much anymore.
But Schumer’s bipartisanship!
DO SOMETHING - THE WORLD IS BEGGING!
Suggestions?
Guns. Bombs.
Go for it. Let me know how that works for you
It’s going to take a revolution of sorts. But violence will happen. It already has.
All mysterious "policy" decisions make sense once this is accepted.
What he says is true. If we were a land of principled people. Trump's big parade on his birthday. Would actually be the army rounding up Trump and his maggot filth to stand in front of military tribunals!
A girl can dream.
There’s still time.
🤞
