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Joe Tye's avatar

In 1974 Barry Goldwater, a hardcore rock-ribbed Republican, confronted Richard Nixon and told him that he had to resign. Goldwater put nation ahead of party and put doing what was right ahead of his own political future.

Today there is not one Republican (if that word still has any meaning to it) who has the courage and patriotism to confront this obviously demented president. Not one who is willing to put doing what is right for the people who elected them ahead of their own desires to be re-elected. We can not rely on Congress or the Supreme Court to fulfill their oaths of office and abide by their constitutional duties. We need to prod the nation's health professionals to take a stand.

As I wrote in my latest substack post, it is past time for the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, and every other health professions association to speak truth to power about the catastrophic damage Trump is doing to our nation's health and to speak truth to the American people about the physical and mental decline of this demented creature. They may be our only hope.

https://joetye.substack.com/p/calling-on-our-healthcare-leaders

Hound's avatar

Nixon was a whole different animal than Trump. Nixon did sleazy stuff that he was not treasonous, he probably didn’t rape kids, he was probably a patriot and loyal to the US. He did try to rig elections and he targeted Americans and he targeted John Lennon. Goldwater talked sense to Nixon and Nixon did what was best for the country. Eventually Nixon came clean about everything as far as we know. That will never happen with Trump or the people around him. They are pure evil.

Joe Tye's avatar

Nixon spent the last days of his presidency trying to convince us that, evidence to the contrary, he was not a crook. Trump has had to try and convince us that, evidence to the contrary, he is not a rapist and a pedophile. Nixon was to shoplifting what Trump is to grand larceny.

Hound's avatar

Sleep deprivation can make cognitive function much more difficult. Trump probably spends most of his time sitting on the toilet sending out his crazy talk.

Creatures like Trump do not experience humiliation. Narcissists have such giant egos That they rationalize any criticism of them as being wrong always because they think they are smarter than everybody else and better than everybody else. Like a lot of Republicans male and female, Trump is a malignant narcissist.

In order for a person to feel humiliation they have to have some level of humility and humanity. People like Trump have neither humility or humanity. The only thing people like that can feel is physical pain and they should be required to feel that a lot. I am a big fan of a therapy called Testicular impact therapy for men.

Val Soper's avatar

Yeah, cut him off at the balls!

Hound's avatar

Castration should be required for every male member of the Trump KKKlan. Spay and neuter.

David's avatar

donnie🇷🇺 on the toilet, falling forward, with a bionk and a clatter his head hits the wall and the phone hits floor!!! Bionk clatter silence peace at last peace at last!!!

Hound's avatar

That’s the kind of poetry I like.🤣

Nancy Felix's avatar

I think Karoline L. has almost as much ego as Trump. She thinks if she defends him & cheerleads for him a little harder people will believe them. She not only drank the kool-aid, she bathes in it. She, herself, wants so badly to be the receiver & receive the football from Trump & take it across the finish line. Then she can bask in the glory as well. But the truth is we all see the fumbles, the breaking of the rules, the violence, the total disregard for respecting the rules, or playing fair. The total lack of empathy or knowledge of the truth. So she sits in the mud, tackled by her own self destruction in her quest to be noticed & recognized by Trump. Its actually pretty pathetic.

LynseyFS's avatar

I don't understand why people even bother with her at all anymore? She's a worthless lying pair of lips, on a piss-poor excuse for an actual human being, with a fake cross prop. All you need to know is “Karo🦁 Leave-It … ‘nuf said.” Then move on to something important, like cleaning the lint out of your belly button. SMH.

susan conner's avatar

Just to be completely snarky, hopefully ms leavitt is not on any stimulants because she is speaking so so fast. Maybe like liars do to get it all out before forgetting what was written for her to say? Who wrote her script? And remember, she should be more careful because she is pregnant and stress caused by lying can negatively affect her unborn child.

Val Soper's avatar

To her child-to-be, is she going to tell them what every parent on the planet demands of their children? “Always tell the truth”! She may be in for a rough ride.

Delores A Haugland's avatar

I enjoy the Substack articles every day! And the concise reporting. No fluff, just the facts.

Carole's avatar

The liars and the lying they want to keep repeating - “spin” - it’s all so exhausting. This isn’t about Trump’s decline but I need to vent-

I just saw a clip where Vance defended ICE in MN- MY STATE. He played the daddy of a 5 year old card AND LIED. He “ did research” 😂😂😂

Here:

https://youtu.be/d3gZJgQcAq0

Vance you’re going to hell along with all the corrupt evil regime too big to name them all. SHAME ON YOU

LynseyFS's avatar

I'm sure JustDeceitful "did research" the same way he did about eating cats & dogs in Springfield OH, & with the same amount of concern for what his lies do to other human beings. He is a whole different scary animal than the rest of the Orange Circus ... JustDispicable.

And God bless MN! 🫂 My bestie lives in the burbs outside Minneapolis & I worry about her cuz she's of Latino descent - a US citizen afraid to leave her house even with her passport on her! There are no words for that 😑

May the whole regime rot in hell!

Lorri Neerings's avatar

25th amendment please.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

The most chilling part isn’t the bluster or the tariffs or the Greenland cosplay. It’s that a five-year-old gets used as leverage while the adults argue about messaging. That’s not policy failure, that’s moral collapse. And when the response to visible confusion is denial instead of concern, you’re no longer governing. You’re just managing the optics of decline.

CarolN's avatar

I subscribed but when I logon I’m asked for a password. Never had one. So I chose I Forgot my password but I never received message to Reset a Password.

Stella Kay's avatar

I got messages from "The David Packman Show" <<notice the misspelling "Packman" instead of "Pakman" --there's some weird stuff going on. Russian Trumpstein troll farm?

David's avatar

PS, Elvis is the only KING!!! 👑