As families were putting on their Sunday best for Easter services and children across America were unearthing goodies in their Easter baskets and anticipating egg hunts, the American president - a figure those same children are taught to respect and revere - unleashed perhaps the most dangerous, unhinged social media rant of his entire five-plus year presidential odyssey.
They have other priorities, like visiting Disney World and insider trading. In case you missed it, the Republicans - like their leader - just don’t give a damn about the American people. If they did, they would not have cut funding for Medicaid, SNAP, the ACA or all the other programs that benefit people instead of billionaires.
I don't think they give a damn about anything or anyone. Please contact your mocs on this one issue. Be brief and concise. Threatening to end a nation is not acceptable
True. Yet all the GOP members have gone home. They are in the majority. Only they have the authority to recall the members. It seems the last thing they want to do is stop this insanity. Many aren't meeting with constituents at all. They are hiding. I cannot for the life of me understand what they are thinking.
"It seems the last thing they want to do is stop this insanity."
Exactly right. They want this to go on and on. Some believe in brutalizing brown people way over there because that's what their constituents want. Some want constant war because that's what their Lord God Trump wants, and they are mere vassals to his will. Some are just frightened little rabbits who found themselves somewhere they couldn't believe they'd be, elevated by the GOP's consistent rewarding of stupidity and blind loyalty.
I agree with those before me here. Thinking is not part of what they do, they're flatworms seeking light and fleeing cold.
Yes, that's true. They think they can force Jesus to come back. And they think if he does, he will save *them.* He never saved the "wordly powerful" the last time...
They have thrown us all under the bus. They are all spineless and deserve to to down with Trump. I just hope we don't go down too... Sorry, but it seems like we are reaching a crossroad. I just don't know what will happen? I continue to write to my reps and post things on their social media. Went to all the protests. I donate to Dem candidates. But now I'm afraid.
The 25th amendment requires his CABINET to vote to remove him, not Congress. The latter can impeach, try, convict and remove a president. With both the cabinet and Congress stacked with his sycophants, there’s not much hope of either of these things happening anytime soon.
The 25th Amendment specifies an alternative way to declare the president unable to serve. There is an outside chance that could be used next January. 🤞
Because Nazi Elon Musk and the convicted felon threatened them badly, ans they care only for career preservation. They don't move an inch to do anything about the convicted felon. Pay attention they are not worried one bit about the midterms.
We need a third party, in any case more than two, to diminish the likelihood of one party dominating government. Even if we get rid of him, there are lots more of his ilk waiting in the wings. Trump’s crimes are also the Republican Party’s crimes.
Let's have a third party AFTER we get rid of him. I don't want to see him win bcz the anti-T vote got split.
My congressman (a dem) says there are eleven caucuses within the democratic party. They are pretty much all opposed to T. There's only one effective caucus in the republican party, and they all appear to worship him.
What we might really benefit from is a parliamentarian system and we might make coalitions, but that's not what we have.
If we lived in a functioning democracy I would agree, and in past elections I've said the very thing you are saying, but now I feel the system itself is broken and we need structural reform. The binary political system is only a meaningless swinging pendulum. Even if D comes up big, four years later we will get R again. Both parties are entrenched. Both are corrupt. Both bow down to rich donors. Both are rife with lobbyists and vested interests. Isn't it interesting that together they have produced two senile presidents in a row? I would love to see the US change to a parliamentarian system, but I think that will be extremely difficult and it would require a rewrite to the constitution which is dangerous. This is why I think the best thing we can do at this juncture is launch new political parties. If we had multiple parties in congress the likelihood of one party controlling everything would be less likely. Congress needs to be forced to negotiate among the many factions that make up America and voters need a diversity of parties so that they can hopefully find one that they can identify with and get excited about.
Thank you, Mr Bix. I agree that both parties are too often beholden to corporate interests! I do think that right now we have to fight it out in the primaries!!!! A third party vote generally will lose. Although Mamdani showed that’s not *always* the case. Once we get the right people in, then we can work on either or both a complete reform and/or a new party.
Also, I remember way back when, a candidate might be listed in more than one party, so the socialist workers might have a ballot line that included one or another of a democratic candidate in the primary, for example, and other minor parties might do the same. I've read somewhere that only one state continues to allow multiple listings. If people voted for a minor party's candidate in the general election instead of just the "democratic" candidate - same person listed on both lines - that candidate would have a much clearer idea of the voters' views of what's important to them.
The dems and reps have gotten that option banned in 49 states.
(I think i got this info on NPR.)
Another option is ranked choice voting, where you vote for up to 3 or however many, candidates, in order of preference. That's now banned in 13 states, but the places that do use it seem to like it a lot. It's been used in local and state-wide voting.
Musk messed with elections. Likely some of these people are illegitimately holding office. Trump will throw all of them under the bus with whatever leverage he has collected on each of them and on the collective global machinations of the Epstein Elites if they try to remove him. We will have to completely reset our government. Neither party is willing to go through that chaos and risk losing what little control they have with no clear outcome. We have to decide without them what kind of country and people we truly want to be and then work to create that outside the illegitimate and corrupt autocracy we are living under. We are past installing new parts in the hope of fixing it.
We need a complete overhaul which will only happen when we collectively decide to do the work required to make it happen.
Mike Johnson as speaker runs the House of Congress. He and the majority of Republicans are the majority. He gets to say when, and what is brought to the floor to debate or vote for or against.
As Americans, we have never lived in scarier times. They are a bunch of lunatics running this country into the ground. The lack of morality in Trump and anger in Hegseth should be alarming to all Americans, but it’s not. I don’t understand. God help us to survive this.
It’s true that during my 67 years we haven’t had a lot of scary times. But there have been a few. The cold war with the USSR, the cuban missile crisis, on 9/11 and after that. But twumpus is throwing gas on the fires in Iran instead of putting them out. That is definitely scary bc it’s going to radicalize the entire ME and plenty of people here already against us. The chaos he creates is very very unsettling.
We had Kent State. We had the Great Depression. We had The Dust Bowl. The Civil War. The Revolutionary war. We had the Trail of Tears. We had slavery. Japanese internment. McCarthyism.
We’ll most likely come out of this, but Im not sure those of us in the US will ever be able to repair the hate, distrust, and inhumanity.
Some people say that this needs to happen for us to jump evolutionarily into something better. I'm afraid at my age I’ll never see that.
I've called all three of my congressional reps to insist that they call for invoking the 25th Amendment. All of them (Crapo, Risch, Simpson) have behaved as dependable toadies to the Trump administration, but I hold out hope that Trump may have now crossed a line even they can't normalize.
You have motivated me to do the same. It’s useless, but makes me feel better pointing out their misplaced loyalty to a madman - and the fact they’re not doing their jobs.
Every letter, message, call or email to a member of Congress received has to be entered in a permanent record. So, yes, do continue to express your opinions to the silent, incompetent freeloaders !
Senator, you are absolutely correct. He sounds like he is threatening a nuclear strike. He is immoral and unhinged: literally crazy. We need him out NOW.
I am as angry as it gets ... madman....he has frontal lobe dementia and has no ability to discern right from wrong....why isn't our Congress doing its job? why can't he be sued for mouthing war crimes. Do something someone please
While the dementia has exacerbated it, he's never been able to discern right from wrong. That's who he is. That's who he's always been. That's who he'll always be.
Oh he knows the difference between right and wrong, he just chooses the wrong path because it’s profitable to him and his friends. He has always been on the side that enriches himself and his family. By far the most corrupt president in history. Bill Fitchett
Some people say that dementia exacerbates who you really are. Among friends and family members I have known with dementia, that proved true. In Trump’s case, doubly so.
Perhaps the midterms are already fixed in their favor, thanks to Nazi Elon Musk. Think about it. Do you see any Republicans in Congress worry about the midterms? That's why they do nothing.
They are not doing ‘nothing’. They are trying to mess with elections & the Dems are trying to stop them. They wont rule out putting armed ICE agents at polling stations. (It is against the law to have armed forces, public or private at polling places unless we are under attack by a foreign power.)
Yes, they know. The RNC chair announced it to the world last December. “ … a “looming disaster.” “The chances are Republicans will go down and will go down hard,” Gruters said.
Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.
When our government becomes a group of international criminals, how does The Hague prosecute them? And every military man who follows illegal orders? What is the mechanism?
Senator, I have great admiration for your steadfast opposition to this mad king. How may I volunteer to help your office?
It is clearer every day that for the future of our country, our alliances, and the world, Trump must be removed from office. He has no ethics, he has no compunctions about committing war crimes. He is a vile person, and a bully. He should never be in a position of power. Congress must act.
I live in Washington DC. There is no one in the Senate that represents citizens of Washington DC. That is a blasphemy!
But if you live in a state where you have two senators, no excuse for you're not DEMANDING that those Senators invoke the 25th amendment! You have the power of the vote. USE IT! CALL YOUR SENATOR.
Chris is a hero for our times. Why don’t more politicians write and speak up loudly for the same principles. We are frogs in bouling water. Thank you, Chris.
But he and his fellow progressive democrats need to immediately file Articles of Impeachment. Lord knows, there are hundreds and maybe thousands of examples of why he should be impeached - culminating in that last horrific tweet about obliterating the Iranian people.
My advice to you is to learn about congress, majority/minority and how that impacts both parties. Because impeachment only happens for the parties in power and even then would make no difference to trump.
I called all of my reps this morning. Van Hollen, Alsobrooks, and Elfreth. I told them that if they want money, I must see their faces on TV calling for Trumps removal. I'm sick of hearing, "but we're in the minority, there's nothing we can do." Dems should be holding daily press conferences!
Sen. Murphy-- While I agree with your post, I want to raise another issue based on recent news reports. Last week a young Army Sergeant, Matthew Blank and his wife, Annie, newlyweds, drove to his new posting. His wife was brought to the US as a toddler and is not here legally. She is a college graduate, no criminal record, and was applying for legal status. . Once on the base, she was immediately arrested and turned over to ICE. I hope you can do something to resolve this. She was filing to change her status and get a green card. She is clearly not a criminal and how does seeing this young woman, the spouse of a noncom, being cuffed and arrested in a cruel manner impact her soldier husband and others in the military. I don't have a problem when noncitizen felons are arrested and deported-but an intelligent young college graduate, with NO criminal history ? Someone in her position will be contributing to society possibly as a teacher or in research. And how does that imp[act her husband and his friends in the service who might be called to service in a combat ? This administration is both hateful and insane.
Why isn’t congress convening and taking the necessary action to remove Trump??????
They have other priorities, like visiting Disney World and insider trading. In case you missed it, the Republicans - like their leader - just don’t give a damn about the American people. If they did, they would not have cut funding for Medicaid, SNAP, the ACA or all the other programs that benefit people instead of billionaires.
A Republican grown man went to Disney alone, Republicans can care less. Words right or wrong have immense power.
Let’s keep evolving.🌎🤞🏼🇺🇸💞
Republicans are living in a black magic kingdom of their own creation. It is perverse and pure evil.
Leave a message if necessary.
Contact your Members of Congress
The call is the most effective tool Only talk about one issue. It is logged as one thing. It does matter.
A Republican grown man in the midst of a Party that is protecting pedophiles perusing in a would-be pedophiles' playground. Not a good look.
I don't think they give a damn about anything or anyone. Please contact your mocs on this one issue. Be brief and concise. Threatening to end a nation is not acceptable
Because the Republicans are Cowards and will not vote to unseat this Treasonous Bigot from his cushy post!
I agree. It is going to take more than a substack post to change things.
True. Yet all the GOP members have gone home. They are in the majority. Only they have the authority to recall the members. It seems the last thing they want to do is stop this insanity. Many aren't meeting with constituents at all. They are hiding. I cannot for the life of me understand what they are thinking.
"It seems the last thing they want to do is stop this insanity."
Exactly right. They want this to go on and on. Some believe in brutalizing brown people way over there because that's what their constituents want. Some want constant war because that's what their Lord God Trump wants, and they are mere vassals to his will. Some are just frightened little rabbits who found themselves somewhere they couldn't believe they'd be, elevated by the GOP's consistent rewarding of stupidity and blind loyalty.
I agree with those before me here. Thinking is not part of what they do, they're flatworms seeking light and fleeing cold.
Some of them want Armageddon and are actively trying to set it off.
Yes, that's true. They think they can force Jesus to come back. And they think if he does, he will save *them.* He never saved the "wordly powerful" the last time...
You're right, that's the fourth category.
That's the problem, they're not thinking.
But some of them are ‘drinking’ as in Lindsey Graham 🥃
It’s as if they are giving up and self destructing when you can’t defend him who can’t be defended.
They have thrown us all under the bus. They are all spineless and deserve to to down with Trump. I just hope we don't go down too... Sorry, but it seems like we are reaching a crossroad. I just don't know what will happen? I continue to write to my reps and post things on their social media. Went to all the protests. I donate to Dem candidates. But now I'm afraid.
And, they should NEVER be voted for again.
It’s all about white supremacy … with Republican hands on the reins (or whip handle).
The 25th amendment requires his CABINET to vote to remove him, not Congress. The latter can impeach, try, convict and remove a president. With both the cabinet and Congress stacked with his sycophants, there’s not much hope of either of these things happening anytime soon.
The 25th Amendment specifies an alternative way to declare the president unable to serve. There is an outside chance that could be used next January. 🤞
Because Nazi Elon Musk and the convicted felon threatened them badly, ans they care only for career preservation. They don't move an inch to do anything about the convicted felon. Pay attention they are not worried one bit about the midterms.
We must vote for Democrats in the midterms in such large numbers that trump, et al can’t scream the election was stolen or rigged.
Call your reps! Every day!
Bombard them with calls & emails all day, every day
I have called, sent e-mails, and the response I get back is "I am cleaning up Biden's mess" in so many words.
We need a third party, in any case more than two, to diminish the likelihood of one party dominating government. Even if we get rid of him, there are lots more of his ilk waiting in the wings. Trump’s crimes are also the Republican Party’s crimes.
Let's have a third party AFTER we get rid of him. I don't want to see him win bcz the anti-T vote got split.
My congressman (a dem) says there are eleven caucuses within the democratic party. They are pretty much all opposed to T. There's only one effective caucus in the republican party, and they all appear to worship him.
What we might really benefit from is a parliamentarian system and we might make coalitions, but that's not what we have.
If we lived in a functioning democracy I would agree, and in past elections I've said the very thing you are saying, but now I feel the system itself is broken and we need structural reform. The binary political system is only a meaningless swinging pendulum. Even if D comes up big, four years later we will get R again. Both parties are entrenched. Both are corrupt. Both bow down to rich donors. Both are rife with lobbyists and vested interests. Isn't it interesting that together they have produced two senile presidents in a row? I would love to see the US change to a parliamentarian system, but I think that will be extremely difficult and it would require a rewrite to the constitution which is dangerous. This is why I think the best thing we can do at this juncture is launch new political parties. If we had multiple parties in congress the likelihood of one party controlling everything would be less likely. Congress needs to be forced to negotiate among the many factions that make up America and voters need a diversity of parties so that they can hopefully find one that they can identify with and get excited about.
Thank you, Mr Bix. I agree that both parties are too often beholden to corporate interests! I do think that right now we have to fight it out in the primaries!!!! A third party vote generally will lose. Although Mamdani showed that’s not *always* the case. Once we get the right people in, then we can work on either or both a complete reform and/or a new party.
Also, I remember way back when, a candidate might be listed in more than one party, so the socialist workers might have a ballot line that included one or another of a democratic candidate in the primary, for example, and other minor parties might do the same. I've read somewhere that only one state continues to allow multiple listings. If people voted for a minor party's candidate in the general election instead of just the "democratic" candidate - same person listed on both lines - that candidate would have a much clearer idea of the voters' views of what's important to them.
The dems and reps have gotten that option banned in 49 states.
(I think i got this info on NPR.)
Another option is ranked choice voting, where you vote for up to 3 or however many, candidates, in order of preference. That's now banned in 13 states, but the places that do use it seem to like it a lot. It's been used in local and state-wide voting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
Cabinet fears retribution if 25th Amendment is invoked. Mad man may come back and make their lives hell.
Completely agree. What’s wrong with us that we are allowing a punitive to run away with our country?
Musk messed with elections. Likely some of these people are illegitimately holding office. Trump will throw all of them under the bus with whatever leverage he has collected on each of them and on the collective global machinations of the Epstein Elites if they try to remove him. We will have to completely reset our government. Neither party is willing to go through that chaos and risk losing what little control they have with no clear outcome. We have to decide without them what kind of country and people we truly want to be and then work to create that outside the illegitimate and corrupt autocracy we are living under. We are past installing new parts in the hope of fixing it.
We need a complete overhaul which will only happen when we collectively decide to do the work required to make it happen.
Can we spell “chikin” and selfish?
Impeachment begins in the House with charges. It takes a simple majority. Mike Johnson does not approve.
If charged, impeachment goes to the Senate where it takes a 2/3 majority. Leader Thune is in charge of the Senate.
Because those that can do anything about it are equally deranged.
Mike Johnson as speaker runs the House of Congress. He and the majority of Republicans are the majority. He gets to say when, and what is brought to the floor to debate or vote for or against.
Because they are a bunch of yellow stained scum.
As Americans, we have never lived in scarier times. They are a bunch of lunatics running this country into the ground. The lack of morality in Trump and anger in Hegseth should be alarming to all Americans, but it’s not. I don’t understand. God help us to survive this.
Agreed totally. Apparently the MAGA base has intimidated GOP in Congress to the point where nobody has the guts to call for Trump’s removal.
Chris Murphy is a courageous senator standing for what’s right.
Unlike my lily livered Indiana Senator, Todd Young, one of the succumber senators.
Mine is Coward Hawley.
Yep! And lack of morality in Miller, et.al.
It’s true that during my 67 years we haven’t had a lot of scary times. But there have been a few. The cold war with the USSR, the cuban missile crisis, on 9/11 and after that. But twumpus is throwing gas on the fires in Iran instead of putting them out. That is definitely scary bc it’s going to radicalize the entire ME and plenty of people here already against us. The chaos he creates is very very unsettling.
We had Kent State. We had the Great Depression. We had The Dust Bowl. The Civil War. The Revolutionary war. We had the Trail of Tears. We had slavery. Japanese internment. McCarthyism.
We’ll most likely come out of this, but Im not sure those of us in the US will ever be able to repair the hate, distrust, and inhumanity.
Some people say that this needs to happen for us to jump evolutionarily into something better. I'm afraid at my age I’ll never see that.
I've called all three of my congressional reps to insist that they call for invoking the 25th Amendment. All of them (Crapo, Risch, Simpson) have behaved as dependable toadies to the Trump administration, but I hold out hope that Trump may have now crossed a line even they can't normalize.
You have motivated me to do the same. It’s useless, but makes me feel better pointing out their misplaced loyalty to a madman - and the fact they’re not doing their jobs.
And at least they can't pretend (well, they can, but they know they're lying) that all their constituents agree with their support of Trump.
Every letter, message, call or email to a member of Congress received has to be entered in a permanent record. So, yes, do continue to express your opinions to the silent, incompetent freeloaders !
Senator, you are absolutely correct. He sounds like he is threatening a nuclear strike. He is immoral and unhinged: literally crazy. We need him out NOW.
I am as angry as it gets ... madman....he has frontal lobe dementia and has no ability to discern right from wrong....why isn't our Congress doing its job? why can't he be sued for mouthing war crimes. Do something someone please
While the dementia has exacerbated it, he's never been able to discern right from wrong. That's who he is. That's who he's always been. That's who he'll always be.
Oh he knows the difference between right and wrong, he just chooses the wrong path because it’s profitable to him and his friends. He has always been on the side that enriches himself and his family. By far the most corrupt president in history. Bill Fitchett
Some people say that dementia exacerbates who you really are. Among friends and family members I have known with dementia, that proved true. In Trump’s case, doubly so.
So…25th Amendment the entire administration. Please.
Totally, they are all corrupt.
We need you as leader of the senate, please remove Schumer!
I’m really puzzled why Republicans aren’t taking this more seriously. Are they really that afraid of his supporters? Or are they cashing in somehow?
Both.
Perhaps the midterms are already fixed in their favor, thanks to Nazi Elon Musk. Think about it. Do you see any Republicans in Congress worry about the midterms? That's why they do nothing.
They are not doing ‘nothing’. They are trying to mess with elections & the Dems are trying to stop them. They wont rule out putting armed ICE agents at polling stations. (It is against the law to have armed forces, public or private at polling places unless we are under attack by a foreign power.)
Yes, they know. The RNC chair announced it to the world last December. “ … a “looming disaster.” “The chances are Republicans will go down and will go down hard,” Gruters said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-own-rnc-chair-warns-190630743.html
18 U.S. Code § 592 - Troops at polls
U.S. Code
Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.
Oh they're worried alright - privately. Publicly they continue to wear the same plastic grins that they always have.
I expect a lot of them are in the Epstein files. That would let Temu Stalin keep them all inline.
Or just start filing impeachment articles now. Because his cabinet is all for this. They paid him to choose them.
When our government becomes a group of international criminals, how does The Hague prosecute them? And every military man who follows illegal orders? What is the mechanism?
Senator, I have great admiration for your steadfast opposition to this mad king. How may I volunteer to help your office?
Thank you for your advocacy to invoke the 25th amendment. Philip Miller
It is clearer every day that for the future of our country, our alliances, and the world, Trump must be removed from office. He has no ethics, he has no compunctions about committing war crimes. He is a vile person, and a bully. He should never be in a position of power. Congress must act.
I live in Washington DC. There is no one in the Senate that represents citizens of Washington DC. That is a blasphemy!
But if you live in a state where you have two senators, no excuse for you're not DEMANDING that those Senators invoke the 25th amendment! You have the power of the vote. USE IT! CALL YOUR SENATOR.
Unfortunately, the senators that need to take action won’t. Therefore, calling them is fruitless. Sad, but true. They’re all a bunch of cowards.
Chris is a hero for our times. Why don’t more politicians write and speak up loudly for the same principles. We are frogs in bouling water. Thank you, Chris.
But he and his fellow progressive democrats need to immediately file Articles of Impeachment. Lord knows, there are hundreds and maybe thousands of examples of why he should be impeached - culminating in that last horrific tweet about obliterating the Iranian people.
My advice to you is to learn about congress, majority/minority and how that impacts both parties. Because impeachment only happens for the parties in power and even then would make no difference to trump.
Unless the House impeached him & the Senate convicted him. Which I agree is a stretch with a GOP controlled Senate.
I called all of my reps this morning. Van Hollen, Alsobrooks, and Elfreth. I told them that if they want money, I must see their faces on TV calling for Trumps removal. I'm sick of hearing, "but we're in the minority, there's nothing we can do." Dems should be holding daily press conferences!
YES, ACTION, NOT MORE WORDS!
Sen. Murphy-- While I agree with your post, I want to raise another issue based on recent news reports. Last week a young Army Sergeant, Matthew Blank and his wife, Annie, newlyweds, drove to his new posting. His wife was brought to the US as a toddler and is not here legally. She is a college graduate, no criminal record, and was applying for legal status. . Once on the base, she was immediately arrested and turned over to ICE. I hope you can do something to resolve this. She was filing to change her status and get a green card. She is clearly not a criminal and how does seeing this young woman, the spouse of a noncom, being cuffed and arrested in a cruel manner impact her soldier husband and others in the military. I don't have a problem when noncitizen felons are arrested and deported-but an intelligent young college graduate, with NO criminal history ? Someone in her position will be contributing to society possibly as a teacher or in research. And how does that imp[act her husband and his friends in the service who might be called to service in a combat ? This administration is both hateful and insane.