From Heather’s latest newsletter:
Should Trump get the Republican nomination—and right now he is the frontrunner—the Republican Party will have nominated for the presidency a man a jury found liable for sexual assault and defamation, and against whose followers a judge had to warn a jury to take precautions.
My first thought was … do the Republicans even care??? In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if some (many?) members of the male gender in the Republican Party actually applauded what he did to E. Jean Carroll!
And then another thought crossed my mind — I wouldn’t reject the idea that some of his devoted followers will actually set up a GoFundMe account to help him pay the five million dollar judgement! After all, HE shouldn’t have to pay that “lyin’ bitch” one penny, right?
Of course the most disturbing part of all this is, yes, as Heather speculates, he’ll most likely get the Republican nomination for POTUS. I just hope –and am sending multiple pleas to the universe– that the Democrats will come out IN FORCE at election time!
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Nan's Notebook 
If the powers that be finally did their job and brought him to justice for treason for the insurrection he caused- proven facts- then he should not be eligible to run for any office.
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I agree! But of course you begin your comment with the key word … “If”.
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Yes, many Republicans won’t care. And some might even be more enthusiastic about Trump after this court decision.
I’m also concerned about George Santos. He has defrauded the voters, and if he can do this it is an attack on the idea of democracy. Yet the Republicans don’t appear to be bothered by this fraud. It’s good that DoJ is taking this to court.
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I’m sure you would agree that the reason the Republicans are not bothered about Santos is because they’re much more interested in keeping “one of their own” in office to ensure their majority. The fact that he defrauded the office as well as the standards of democracy carries little weight with them.
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Looking at this from the outside, so to speak, it all looks like a giant pyramid scheme. The Republican voters hand out their votes and money to endorse a group of billioners in hopes that some good will “trickle down” to them too and out of fear for changes in the society they do not understand, because they do not want to understand because they fear them. No amount of facts is going to change their minds, as their identities have been hijacked by the scheme. It is they, who have been conned, but instead of getting angry at the conman, they get angry at people pointing out the hoax. Their reaction to ridicule is defensive, as those of a “true believer”. Faith, they have been taught from childhood, is a virtue and as this fallacy now politically hurts them, they do not understand the source of the pain.
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something just hit me about this kind of behavior: you see a wife being abused by her husband, daily, constantly. He berates her, slaps her around a bit, her life is not her own. She goes nowhere without his permission. She takes her frustration out on the kids, on her sister, on her friends. If someone tries to ‘rescue’ her, or offer her a safe place, she turns on them, enraged that they should ever imply…
Sounds a lot like the republican voters, doesn’t it.
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Auch! That is so true. Once as a young man I got involved into something like this. My attempts to rescue someone were to no awail. I saved her life from a desperate suicide attempt, but she went back to the abusive relationship. I got a valuable lesson at a high cost. The resemblance of the mindset is uncanny. People in these situations are in so deep, that they do not even see what is wrong. They fear everything, even the possibility of a change in their situations, because they have grown accustomed to the thought, that any change in their lives has been for the worse. The abuser – be it the hubbie, or the Conservative politician – offers a form of “safety” not unlike the mobster collecting payoffs from a protection racket. It is OK because, in their world the ultimate authority, their god, does exactly the same. And the priest, the mobster, the politician and the hubbie can all be so nice too and tell the victim how much they love them, when they are not trying to scare the witts out of their victims. This is precisely why the Russians today are turning a blind eye to the mindless war their government is conducting. Not just because they are affraid of the government, but they even applaud the war, because they are affraid of what might happen, were that government overthrown.
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Great insight by both you and Judy!
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Thanks, but Judy had the insight, I merely extrapolated from there, as her point struck me.
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Always an if because it seems “we the people” doesn’t mean anything anymore
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Claytoonz today: http://claytoonz.com/2023/05/10/50026/
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Thanks for this! And for joining our little group. 🙂
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Nan, please stop believing all you hear from the woke liberal media. Trump is a great man who worked his way up from poverty by selling lemonade to children during the Vietnam war. He is kind, loving and empathetic to a fault. He is also the victim of a woke liberal agenda that is allowing lies to be spread about him. Ok. (Sorry, if you don’t believe me but all I’ve said is very, very true.)
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I believe you! I believe you! I know from your “inspiration” that you would NEVER lie or make up stories!!
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😁😁
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I’m going with your first thought, Nan. They do not care. If there was undeniable, irrefutable proof, they still would not care. He and his band of extremist ass-hats took over the Republican Party. How many in the Party secretly hope his name is not on the ballot?
If there is something good in DT, he scares so many of us so much that we will (may?) do all we legally can to prevent his ever holding the POTUS office again.
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I HOPE you’re right about that last part!
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The GOP has gone full Facism. They barely try to hide it anymore. I fear the end of our democracy if he gets elected. This time, he will win the battle to shred the constitution, for the overencompassing “righteousness” of the “cause.”
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I agree … it’s downright SCARY! That’s why we need to get the SANE people out to VOTE!
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I have no doubt that many followers of his cult do applaud his actions, see him as a ‘victim’, and believe that the lady involved (and every other woman) is only put on Earth for their sexual gratification. Perversely, it may get him even more votes than when he won in 2016.
Best wishes, Pete.
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As much as it turns my stomach to think about it, you could be right, Pete. 😣
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There are, incredibly, a serious number of dreadful people swirling around the government right now, including Lauren Bobert (the Karen of the Republicans), Marjorie Taylor Greene, mr. Pillow, Trump, and ley us not forget Clarence Thomas, who is a disgrace to the Supreme Court…I seriously do not understand why anyone would vote/cheer/or sanction any of them to appear in public. At least Tucker Carlson has been removed from the public cheering sector…
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It’s easy to explain, Judy. These folk you name (and others … many others) have obtained “idol” status. They are “stand-ins” for the folks that hate the government but have no power to change it.
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I also noticed, to my horror, that Trump’s former press secretary (she of the frowny face) is now the governor of Arkansas. dear lord in heaven. I may have to return to my Canadian roots…
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“I just hope –and am sending multiple pleas to the universe– that the Democrats will come out IN FORCE at election time!” And Independents too. We’ll have 4 more years (or more after the coup) of this bloviating narcissist if they don’t come out on the side of democracy. I’m having real trouble wrapping my head around letting Donnie the Dodger back in the White House.
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Meanwhile here in Finland something similar stirs. The populist & nationalist party gained 2nd best position in our parliamentary elections. They had 46 seats out of 200 and are now negotiating entry to the government. This despite their candidates being most likely, by far to any other major party, to have a criminal conviction. Their leader is a woman, despite their supporters often expressing outright misogynia, at least online. Their main agenda is anti-immigration, or hardly veiled racism. This sels, despite all the researchers, economists and organisations from labour movement to employers interrest groups have said for years, that the country is in desperate need of immigration. Their secondary agenda is to diminish steps taken against climate change. This despite the overwhelming evidence and majority of scientists saying we are in a hurry to do what ever we can. The leader of the moderate Conservatives who won the election by alarmism about the nation’s economy and controversely by promising tax cuts, said under the previous elections, that no amount of “pragmatism” could make them consider joining in the government with the racist nationalists. Now he said, that “pragmatism” demands them to join forces. He did not even bother to come up with a nother word for it, because he can rely on his own voters to be lazy morons, who will not notice how he has lied to them. To them! He has not betrayed anybody else, just the people who gave him their votes trusting in his words. It reminds me how the moderate conservatives of the Weimar Republic thought they could use the Nazies and gave them power…
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What the f___ is happening? Have the people on this earth gone stark, raving mad? Is the planet emitting some sort of undetectable vapor that’s affecting the minds of certain individuals? The rest of us may end up having to go live underground to avoid the crazies!
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Ah. I know what it is. The magnetic pole thing is happening, and it’s messing with people’s minds….birds flying sideways, geysers erupting where geysers never erupted before, unexplained hair loss in cows and bears…and ordinary people suddenly besotted with political asshats. Who knew.
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I have heard from reliable people, that they have even heard from someone else of reports of dragons flying on the northern skies. The end is nigh! I guess there is nothing new in certain amount of people being used by politically ambitious criminals and otherwise criminally stupid people expressing political talent.
This may sound like a conspiracy theory, but one new thing accelerating the events may be social media being used deliberately to manipulate the aforementioned segment of the society. There is some interresting research done by a bunch of Nordic investigative journalists on the Russian “troll factory”, that seeks out weak spots in Western democracies, produces nonsense to the internet to sow dissarray, division and polarisation, by appealing to the weakest links of our societies, who may unwittingly grab Fascist ideals, vote and act upon them. This has become blatantly obvious when the anti-vaxxer movement here suddenly started to spout lies about Russia having every right to invade Ukraine. At the same time Russian government and/or oligarchs (Capitalists) close to it fund the Western far-right. It is a serious development. Make no mistake, the Putin government is typically authoritarian extreme right-wing, in support of big time Capitalists (oligarchs), running with the fear of the outsider & tribal moralism and “traditional values”, sharing Fascist values and beliefs in Nationalist Russian exeptionalism, making Russia great again, applauding Trump for sharing their values, but just as much for making the USA weak and brittle by the division he creates.
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Spot on….the turning of the tides, the swing of the pendulum
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Google “Bronze Age Collapse”. All the interconnected, advanced high bronze civilizations collapsed.
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There’s a lot of hand wringing (and rightfully so) about Trump. And after his recent harangue on CNN, we now know that 4 more year of him will likely be the death of the Republic (if not liberal democracy too). But what are the Democrats doing about this? As much as I like Joe, I think they’re taking a real chance on him defeating an unhinged and rapacious bully like Donnie the Dodger. Harris? Not likely either. But, with the Democrats having failed repeatedly to gather a group of (younger) up-and-coming (i.e., known to the public at large) liberal Dems, they’ve got nothing. Now it’s either Joe or bust.
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A scarier thought is that he will pick MTG for veep! I wouldn’t be surprised
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lol, canada is looking better and better
If I were ten years younger I’d really begin considering my options in that direction…
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Agree! I also would consider Australia. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I probably won’t be around to suffer for very long.
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Don’t forget to encourage the Independents who oppose the Trump to get out and vote regardless of whatever roadblocks legislatures have thrown in their way. The number of us who are registered as non-party-affiliated exceeds the number registered as Republicans … or as Democrats. The candidate who adds the largest number of Independents to the votes of their own party wins.
Pay attention to the down-ticket candidates too. Local offices effect our day-to-day lives. State offices have the power to mess with our ability to vote (gerrymandering, voting hours, voting restrictions, etc.),
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Good points!! Thanks for the reminders.
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It certainly is the most suspenseful election cycle we’ve had! Since I can’t predict the future, I’ll just have to wait and see what happens, but I do hope that orange asshat is in jail before the election.
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You aren’t the only one!! But I think you know that. 😊
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🙂 Yep!
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