Trump is just a ways to a means. He’s a puppet. He’s a very nasty, evil, mentally unstable, flawed puppet, but he has a CULT like following and that was very attractive to certain people. We are in some very dark times. Would be nice if the good people that were duped, lied to, and manipulated, and then made a very bad choice on 11/5/2024, WOULD OPEN THEIR EYES AND WAKE THE @&&$ UP!!!!
I think Trump has a desperate need to be seen as a strong leader. Thus, the military is quite attractive to him, even though he never actually served. He's cosplaying
I agree with you that Trump is in serious cognitive decline. Probably taking direction from the deplorable Stephen Miller without asking any questions...just following his lead. All in the name of distraction, orchestrated by SM. And...why haven't we heard from TOOLsi Gabbard on any of this yet??
Again- he is so terrified we’ll have proof and all know about what a despicable pedophile he is and invoke the 25th amendment. He NEVER should’ve been allowed on the ballot in ‘24 to begin with. Did he truly legally win? I really can’t believe there are that many mindless voters out there!!!!!
I'm thinking he's probably not terrified we might have proof...he knows we do. And you're right that he never should've been allowed on the '24 ballot. There was a through-line of succession that allowed that failure (in my opinion): Mitch McConnell hypocritically blocks Merrick Garland's appointment to The Supremes; Merrick Garland then stalls for the entirety of 2021, thus delaying any prosecution of Trump for his coup attempt; add in Ruth Bader Ginsberg's failure to recognize (for whatever reason) her imminent age-related demise and gracefully stepping down DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY. Put together, it was a perfect storm of hypocrisy, ineptitude and lack of spine.
Canadian here. Trump needs to be stopped, and NOW!! Pull your heads out of the sand and get it DONE!! Can you not see where this is going? Every day there is a “fresh new hell” of unbelievable Trumpian stupidity, audacity, craziness, and worse. The man is SICK. He needs to be impeached ASAP for his mental incapacity to function as a normal human being, in any job. PLEASE! Before we all FRY. (And what’s it to him—he knows his days are numbered on this planet!) JUST GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!! Before it’s too late.
I wish I could help. I voted in Democrats officials that haven't done a damn thing. I say "Shame on the Democrats" for this. They are ALLOWING this to happen. So many of us are SO sick and tired of bullshit without action.
Glad you mentioned RBG, she should have retired and given Biden chance to replace her. Unfortunately lifetime appointments are taken too seriously so, like popes, they usually die in office.
Our govt is supposed to be of the people, instead it appears to be a retirement home for the incrowd. If we cannot have term limits, maybe for the sake of the US, we need mandatory retirement age for all govt positions. This is a matter of equity. The younger need to be able to serve and not having to wait for a dinosaur to die before their position is open.
"...a retirement home for the in-crowd..." Astute and well said. The other thing I'm entirely uncool with is lifetime security detail and pensions. They did a job. The job ended. Move on. We all have to.
That is why we need term limits. What is more shocking is that most come out millionaires on a salary for %175k a year. The pensions are just a bonus.
No telling how much US spends on Secret Service protection for life of the presidents. Unfortunately necessary as wackos and foreign terrorists would go after them. What irks me is that Trump has a large family that is using his position to feather their nests like Ivana/Kushner, Don/jr and Eric who are trapsing all over the world with secret service protection. That needs to stop. Too expensive, massive security risk if something happens to them abroad. Also doing business using daddy's name is sick.
We really need to have better standards for presidents. Their security risk needs to be evaluated for office. Trump married to foreigner, has foreign business interests and a big family to protect should be a disqualifier. Not to mention bankruptcies, questionable personal behavior, oh don;t forget the little felony. Also any one with judgements under appeal should be disqualified.
But cognitive decline cannot be tolerated - WW3 is upon us. Very frightening how he continues on and my elected Democrats do nothing. I'm pissed off at the Democrats I voted in. They are just as much to blame, being pussies.
Why are the naval military commanders ordering their sailors to do this? Why are they not refusing to obey illegal orders? Why are the sailors not refusing to obey illegal orders? ???
ETA: Surely the following people are the top of the chain of people who are following illegal orders:
(found this on AI: ..."Admiral Daryl Caudle, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), is the top naval officer in charge of the entire U.S. Navy, but the seizure operation was led by the U.S. Coast Guard, a different service within the Department of Homeland Security.
General Tod Wolters was likely the commander of U.S. European Command (EUCOM) at the time of the incident in the North Atlantic (the news results are dated to Jan 7, 2026, which is in the future), and EUCOM confirmed the seizure on social media.
The seizure was conducted pursuant to a U.S. federal court warrant for violations of U.S. sanctions related to Venezuelan oil trafficking. "
...SO how is this seizure connected to Venezuelan oil trafficking???
Soldiers and sailors are required to obey the orders of those above them. It is easy for those outside the military to inject "lawful". This is contrary to the way it works. Who determines if the order is lawful? If we empower every private or seaman to challenge every order on the basis of lawfulness, we would no longer have an army or navy.
We now have a president and Sec of Defense who are sending "blast them away" orders. Yet we want to crucify the military for doing what they are being told to do. No wonder few want to serve in the military as they will be the convenient scapegoat when things do not go well.
I agree 💯 percent. Very uncomfortable for all of our military, they are stuck in the middle of a no-win situation. I feel very badly for them all. The pressure must be unbearable.
Good call, you do not have a JAG at the ready on speed dial when needed. They are usually there to defend AFTER the fact and not before. Any soldier who disobeys using the unlawful order defense is at huge risk to prove it. Military has a chain of command that will most likely defend the order and not the soldier.
The power of the President to fire anyone he does not like needs to be stopped. One man making all the decisions to run the show is called a king and not a president.
David, I just want to say I totally enjoy your show. I can tell your commentary is always well researched and methodical. You never rant, you simply tell things as they are. It’s very refreshing and captivating to hear your perspective on the issues that seem to change rapidly from day to day. Thank you for giving us our daily dose of truth.
Yes our needed daily dose of sanity. I am sure Trump hates that you are an immigrant and has a team looking for some way to deport. What makes that so insulting is that two of his wives fall into the same category.
To vote against Trump is the same as voting against themselves. Would have to admit he is wrong, which in politics is a deadly, fatal sin. Not many politicians ever say they were wrong.
Repubs have tied their horses to Trump. Not sure what it will take for them to unhitch. Had the raid to get Maduro gone bad and lots of US soldiers killed that might have done it. But it went spectacularly well so they are quite proud of themselves. I so no stopping the train anytime soon. Maybe if Putin launches the nukes over the ship hijacking, might do it
Hope it does not get that far. Trump would easily give Ukraine to Putin just to stop the war during his term in office. All this cuts into his golf time.
Yes but impeachment is the more likely route. Take what we can get. Trump loves to be in court and if we went that route the appeals would see all of us to the grave.
But Russ, it's taking SO long. I don't understand why nothing has proceeded. Well, yah, I kinda do. My elected Democrats have done NOTHING. Very frustrating.
Welcome to reality. When it comes to politics not much makes sense. Both political parties are guilty of doing what is best for the party than what is best for the majority. Money drives the train. Our politicians in most cases have law degrees which means they either come from money or like JD Vance finagled someone to back them. To get elected they need money backers, which has strings attached. Abraham Lincoln would not get elected today. Too poor.
He's like your grandfather, at your wedding, and you run up to the DJ and beg him to NOT PLAY THAT SONG. He's a disaster, and he thinks that he looks like Sylvester Stallone in boxing trunks.
Dementia donnie is not sane. His cheese has slipped off of its cracker. He has been doing everything he can to cancel 2026 elections. He knows he is toast. He needs to be removed b4 we have WW3.
As long as Republicans don't do something about Trump, they don't stand a chance. Their blind obedience to Trump and his minions will be their downfall. Anyone can see that his so called policies are costing us all. His out of control spending is also a big concern moving forward.
Not just out of control spending. HE is a totally out of control psychopath. It's not dementia. He is a psychopath. My husband is a Sociopath, TRUMPSTEIN IS a psychopath. Very, very dangerous. Extremely dangerous.
Putin and Trump conspired together.
Trump is just a ways to a means. He’s a puppet. He’s a very nasty, evil, mentally unstable, flawed puppet, but he has a CULT like following and that was very attractive to certain people. We are in some very dark times. Would be nice if the good people that were duped, lied to, and manipulated, and then made a very bad choice on 11/5/2024, WOULD OPEN THEIR EYES AND WAKE THE @&&$ UP!!!!
I wouldn't call them good people. trump plainly showed the whole world who he is in his attempt to hold on to power last time on January 6th.
You are correct. Trump doesn't have the testicular fortitude to really go up against Putin. This is all a distraction from the Epstein files.
I think Trump has a desperate need to be seen as a strong leader. Thus, the military is quite attractive to him, even though he never actually served. He's cosplaying
I agree with you that Trump is in serious cognitive decline. Probably taking direction from the deplorable Stephen Miller without asking any questions...just following his lead. All in the name of distraction, orchestrated by SM. And...why haven't we heard from TOOLsi Gabbard on any of this yet??
Again- he is so terrified we’ll have proof and all know about what a despicable pedophile he is and invoke the 25th amendment. He NEVER should’ve been allowed on the ballot in ‘24 to begin with. Did he truly legally win? I really can’t believe there are that many mindless voters out there!!!!!
I can't believe that we allow convicted criminals on our Presidential ballot. That is flat out insane and absurdly stupid!
I'm thinking he's probably not terrified we might have proof...he knows we do. And you're right that he never should've been allowed on the '24 ballot. There was a through-line of succession that allowed that failure (in my opinion): Mitch McConnell hypocritically blocks Merrick Garland's appointment to The Supremes; Merrick Garland then stalls for the entirety of 2021, thus delaying any prosecution of Trump for his coup attempt; add in Ruth Bader Ginsberg's failure to recognize (for whatever reason) her imminent age-related demise and gracefully stepping down DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY. Put together, it was a perfect storm of hypocrisy, ineptitude and lack of spine.
Canadian here. Trump needs to be stopped, and NOW!! Pull your heads out of the sand and get it DONE!! Can you not see where this is going? Every day there is a “fresh new hell” of unbelievable Trumpian stupidity, audacity, craziness, and worse. The man is SICK. He needs to be impeached ASAP for his mental incapacity to function as a normal human being, in any job. PLEASE! Before we all FRY. (And what’s it to him—he knows his days are numbered on this planet!) JUST GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!! Before it’s too late.
I wish I could help. I voted in Democrats officials that haven't done a damn thing. I say "Shame on the Democrats" for this. They are ALLOWING this to happen. So many of us are SO sick and tired of bullshit without action.
AMEN!!!!!
Glad you mentioned RBG, she should have retired and given Biden chance to replace her. Unfortunately lifetime appointments are taken too seriously so, like popes, they usually die in office.
Our govt is supposed to be of the people, instead it appears to be a retirement home for the incrowd. If we cannot have term limits, maybe for the sake of the US, we need mandatory retirement age for all govt positions. This is a matter of equity. The younger need to be able to serve and not having to wait for a dinosaur to die before their position is open.
Homesteading in office needs to stop.
"...a retirement home for the in-crowd..." Astute and well said. The other thing I'm entirely uncool with is lifetime security detail and pensions. They did a job. The job ended. Move on. We all have to.
Seems impossible to move on with TRUMPSTEIN in the way. Hope it happens ❤️👍🏻
That is why we need term limits. What is more shocking is that most come out millionaires on a salary for %175k a year. The pensions are just a bonus.
No telling how much US spends on Secret Service protection for life of the presidents. Unfortunately necessary as wackos and foreign terrorists would go after them. What irks me is that Trump has a large family that is using his position to feather their nests like Ivana/Kushner, Don/jr and Eric who are trapsing all over the world with secret service protection. That needs to stop. Too expensive, massive security risk if something happens to them abroad. Also doing business using daddy's name is sick.
We really need to have better standards for presidents. Their security risk needs to be evaluated for office. Trump married to foreigner, has foreign business interests and a big family to protect should be a disqualifier. Not to mention bankruptcies, questionable personal behavior, oh don;t forget the little felony. Also any one with judgements under appeal should be disqualified.
TRUMPSTEIN has made BILLIONS as a "president", and I say "president" loosely.
Thank you Russ. Agree ❤️👍🏻
Of course!! That’s why all the mayhem and misdirection- it’s difficult not being a squirrel and chasing shiny objects when there are SO MANY!!!
agreed 100%
I now call them THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES.
Good one!!!
But cognitive decline cannot be tolerated - WW3 is upon us. Very frightening how he continues on and my elected Democrats do nothing. I'm pissed off at the Democrats I voted in. They are just as much to blame, being pussies.
Thank you, David, for all you do to keep us informed of the reality of our situation ... Keep on keeping on!
Why are the naval military commanders ordering their sailors to do this? Why are they not refusing to obey illegal orders? Why are the sailors not refusing to obey illegal orders? ???
ETA: Surely the following people are the top of the chain of people who are following illegal orders:
(found this on AI: ..."Admiral Daryl Caudle, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), is the top naval officer in charge of the entire U.S. Navy, but the seizure operation was led by the U.S. Coast Guard, a different service within the Department of Homeland Security.
General Tod Wolters was likely the commander of U.S. European Command (EUCOM) at the time of the incident in the North Atlantic (the news results are dated to Jan 7, 2026, which is in the future), and EUCOM confirmed the seizure on social media.
The seizure was conducted pursuant to a U.S. federal court warrant for violations of U.S. sanctions related to Venezuelan oil trafficking. "
...SO how is this seizure connected to Venezuelan oil trafficking???
Soldiers and sailors are required to obey the orders of those above them. It is easy for those outside the military to inject "lawful". This is contrary to the way it works. Who determines if the order is lawful? If we empower every private or seaman to challenge every order on the basis of lawfulness, we would no longer have an army or navy.
We now have a president and Sec of Defense who are sending "blast them away" orders. Yet we want to crucify the military for doing what they are being told to do. No wonder few want to serve in the military as they will be the convenient scapegoat when things do not go well.
I agree 💯 percent. Very uncomfortable for all of our military, they are stuck in the middle of a no-win situation. I feel very badly for them all. The pressure must be unbearable.
JAGs were the ones a GI can go to with legal questions. That is why Trump fired them first.
Good call, you do not have a JAG at the ready on speed dial when needed. They are usually there to defend AFTER the fact and not before. Any soldier who disobeys using the unlawful order defense is at huge risk to prove it. Military has a chain of command that will most likely defend the order and not the soldier.
The power of the President to fire anyone he does not like needs to be stopped. One man making all the decisions to run the show is called a king and not a president.
WTF for??? Why has Trump ordered the attack of a Russian boat??
To pretend like he’s tough on Putin so we don’t know the truth that he is conspiring with Putin
A G R E E 👍🏻
Bet the boat used to be named Chicago or LA or Portland.
🤣❤️👍🏻
David, I just want to say I totally enjoy your show. I can tell your commentary is always well researched and methodical. You never rant, you simply tell things as they are. It’s very refreshing and captivating to hear your perspective on the issues that seem to change rapidly from day to day. Thank you for giving us our daily dose of truth.
Yes our needed daily dose of sanity. I am sure Trump hates that you are an immigrant and has a team looking for some way to deport. What makes that so insulting is that two of his wives fall into the same category.
You are SO R I G H T❤️👍🏻
Impeachment is a slap on the wrist.
Arrest and imprisonment is the only solution
Yah yah yah. Impeachment... bullshit walks from our Officials that we elected. No action. None. Zip. Nada. Zero.Nada.
To vote against Trump is the same as voting against themselves. Would have to admit he is wrong, which in politics is a deadly, fatal sin. Not many politicians ever say they were wrong.
Repubs have tied their horses to Trump. Not sure what it will take for them to unhitch. Had the raid to get Maduro gone bad and lots of US soldiers killed that might have done it. But it went spectacularly well so they are quite proud of themselves. I so no stopping the train anytime soon. Maybe if Putin launches the nukes over the ship hijacking, might do it
Hope it does not get that far. Trump would easily give Ukraine to Putin just to stop the war during his term in office. All this cuts into his golf time.
Yes but impeachment is the more likely route. Take what we can get. Trump loves to be in court and if we went that route the appeals would see all of us to the grave.
But Russ, it's taking SO long. I don't understand why nothing has proceeded. Well, yah, I kinda do. My elected Democrats have done NOTHING. Very frustrating.
Welcome to reality. When it comes to politics not much makes sense. Both political parties are guilty of doing what is best for the party than what is best for the majority. Money drives the train. Our politicians in most cases have law degrees which means they either come from money or like JD Vance finagled someone to back them. To get elected they need money backers, which has strings attached. Abraham Lincoln would not get elected today. Too poor.
Just want to say thanks for the continuing great work, David.
He's like your grandfather, at your wedding, and you run up to the DJ and beg him to NOT PLAY THAT SONG. He's a disaster, and he thinks that he looks like Sylvester Stallone in boxing trunks.
Love that, Zara❤️👍🏻
Dementia donnie is not sane. His cheese has slipped off of its cracker. He has been doing everything he can to cancel 2026 elections. He knows he is toast. He needs to be removed b4 we have WW3.
The taco shell has cracked.🌮🌮🌮😆
Flirting with Putin is flirting with death.
TRUMPSTEIN is flirting with the death of the United States, and ummm.... The world.
Definitely a show
As long as Republicans don't do something about Trump, they don't stand a chance. Their blind obedience to Trump and his minions will be their downfall. Anyone can see that his so called policies are costing us all. His out of control spending is also a big concern moving forward.
Not just out of control spending. HE is a totally out of control psychopath. It's not dementia. He is a psychopath. My husband is a Sociopath, TRUMPSTEIN IS a psychopath. Very, very dangerous. Extremely dangerous.
GEO political decisions being made on whims and adderall.
I LOVE that David ❤️👍🏻😆🌮