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Tuco's avatar

Why aren’t more people talking about the ballroom, and what trump is doing with the bunker below the ballroom? The bunker is what he’s focused on upgrading, yet no one is talking about it at all.

Sharon Otstot's avatar

Every once in a while the subject of the bunker comes up. On the list of the top ten issues, the ballroom is now maybe number four. Not forgotten, just inundated. We're treading water to keep up.

Rebecca Bain Patchell's avatar

They probably know we are going to be blown to bits by the wars he and his stupid leaders are doing. Scary thought.

Sharon Otstot's avatar

If you thought that Trump cared about the Republican Party, you were wrong. He cares about one thing -- loyalty. He and Musk are the same -- destroyers, not builders -- like a two year old who destroys the building block tower of his five year old brother. Why? Because it belonged to someone else, and because it is there. I'm furious.

Carole's avatar

And add in all the sycophantic cabinet , including Vance, Johnson and Miller- they’re all so deluded that they think their regime and power will last forever as long as they pledge fealty to the “king”. I CANNOT wait for it all to crumble around their ears and watch them wither and scream during their prosecutions for war crimes and lying to Congress and the rest of us. !!! Oh HAPPY DAY!!!

Ian Ogard's avatar

I will read this again before I go to sleep tonight and have sweet dreams.

Charles G Haacker's avatar

Fun dayn moyl in Gots oyern —"From your mouth in God's ears." 👏🥲

NANCY Jambor's avatar

We are truly in a double fire horse year! Replete with energetic change in all directions and aspects of our world. I was reminded that double-fire can lead to literal and figurative burnout (no pun intended). We all need the nourishment of our community connections and the natural world (blooming wildflowers, squares of sunshine for napping and more) to thrive and deal with the chaos.

Lori's avatar

It’s amazing to me that the Congressional GOP don’t do anything to save themselves NOW for what will happen to them at the mid-terms. Are they so delusional that they believe this administration’s agenda will keep them in their jobs? Talk about cowering in the sinking ship…

Coop's avatar

Lori: They are confident there won't be mid-term elections.

Hate to say it, but that's my forecast. The Orange 💩 will cancel them. 🤬

Charles G Haacker's avatar

Coop, I thought *I* was the born pessimist in the Substack crowd. I keep trying to put on a brave face, pretending it will all be okay, that it will come out in the wash, and blathering positivity, yada yada, and underneath, I completely agree with you. The deadly orange snake will figure it out. Maybe not him; I think he has lost it. I know dementia when I see it, and he has it. But the real danger lies in the Nazis he surrounds himself with (lookin' at you, Steve Miller). We, on the right side of history, see those people as stupid, incompetent, imbeciles, but that's a flawed perception. Drumpf himself is the Lady in the Spangled Tights, misdirecting attention here, there, and everywhere, to obfuscate the Epstein files. Meantime, those other SOBs, smarter than they look, are engineering the coup that may put a Junta in control of our country.

Coop's avatar

I'm in 🇨🇦, Charles. The whole of the 🌎 is in grave danger from the Orange 💩. I've been sensing/seeing the very worst of what's to come.

I am so relieved that my own kids (in their mid-30s) have announced they will NOT be having children. They are smart and can clearly see where its all heading.

I feel one of the main reasons for birthrates crashing is that young people sense what is coming.

Don't think for one second that 💩 and/or Netanyahu won't hit the 'N' button. They won't even hesitate.

LynseyFS's avatar

"If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” (Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

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Joanne Held's avatar

Oh, wouldn't that be spectacular! The first sliver of hope I have felt in years.

Skepticat's avatar

"Trump just blew up the GOP’s midterm advantage."

From your pixels to Fate's ears.

Ken brinkley's avatar

The bunker is an AI center!

Sharon Otstot's avatar

I don't think it's large enough. They range of hundreds of thousands to over a million square feet.

Rebecca Bain Patchell's avatar

Who wants trumpy in office anyway or his hateful thugs? So whatever he has done wrong to change some of the maga republicans minds that is good news. However, to say he should have done something different means nothing. He cannot do anything different being a puppet and a mad man with no scruples.

Coop's avatar

His only policy priority would be more tax breaks for multi-millionaires, billionaires and Big Corps. That's all Reps ever do, so that some of the money comes back from them in campaign contributions and PACs.

So, there's that. 🤬

Tim Brown's avatar

I’m suddenly feeling something weird: optimism! Thanks David!

Ian Ogard's avatar

Trump's dragging the Republican party down the drain faster now than all of those businesses he bankrupted.

Leslie Judge's avatar

But David, even if both the Senate and the House turn Democratic at the mid-terms (the elections are not stolen from the people), even if the Republicans are voted out of the Presidency in '29, we are still stuck with a Supreme Court that is entrenched, politically activist, and pretty much completely anti-democratic. What's to keep them from turning over any new democratic laws passed by Congress and the Executive branches, any laws that don't fit their extreme radical plans for our country? Democrats have not been known to have any courage to change the Judiciary. What makes you/us think they will have that courage then?

Susan Klemetsen's avatar

I think that will change when we have a trifecta in 2028. I do think we will expand the court. Biden gave it serious consideration. He ordered a study of it, but unfortunately, he lacked the courage to act. Because of the corruption on the Court, I don't think we have any choice.

Leslie Judge's avatar

Perhaps... I hope so. There have been so many egregious decisions by this court, something must be done. I love the idea of expanding the Court and rotating the bench with the Appellate justices. There are way too many cases for only nine justices, too many shadow docket decisions, too many important cases left languishing for months beyond the reasonable. The Court has become an untrustworthy creature, unelected, and ruling our lives from an untouchable bench. It is an exceptionally unacceptable situation.

Charles G Haacker's avatar

Everyone fears that Sotomayor will die, and prays she doesn't.

Leslie Judge's avatar

Yes, and that is another reform needed - some mandated retirement age or term limit.

Dennis Thomas's avatar

I think we voters need an avenue to petition a vote of no confidence in our representatives at anytime. I can damn well guarantee in most places at this time folks aren't happy with their representatives in congress. I am not being represented currently in congress and that is a huge frustration for me. I agree with very little of what this regime is doing and congress is nowhere to be seen.

Susan Klemetsen's avatar

As a blue dot in a red state, I haven't been represented in years. I don't think a vote of no confidence would fix it. In a way, an election is a reflection of a voter's confidence. Maybe the ability to recall would work. For instance, Fetterman isn't performing his job as he promised he would.

Jason Merchey's avatar

I was pretty surprised the word "cheat" didn't appear in this article.