Jim and Olivia, thank you for your positivity. I am not feeling so hopeful today. I've been feeling for awhile that we just keep moving towards a boiling point. Today, we watched a dictator welcome yet another dictator into the WH- has that happened in the past, this often, this openly? They're being called, "Good presidents!" What??? I LIVED down in Central America and South America. I HEARD people's stories about human rights violations. I am watching der fuhrer parade these characters around, make them say what they want them to say, shoving all of them in front of cameras. Our guy is a coward, always ; he doesn't know. Next steps really need to be hashed out, so that everyone is on the next page, and the movement is big and coordinated. Today it's the guy from Maryland, "irretrievable" from El Salvador, tomorrow it's a citizen, one of US! We move one step, one step more, and one step more towards an imploding democracy with guardrails removed or bent back. There is no cavalry coming. WE are the cavalry. I keep hoping that SOMEONE in Congress or the Senate, SOMEONE will step up, but there is NO ONE.
For those hiding in the other 2 branches of government, our Senators and Representatives who afraid of being primaried, look around and realize that our decaying and failing human condition in the U.S. today is more worthy of being feared. You feel fine and safe today, but once the little rock here and there that's rolling becomes an unstoppable avalanche, what do you do? Run for cover? You have a bigger voices than we do- you represent us, ALL of us, no matter our party affiliations. Please, as I have written in my relentless weekly emails: Stand up and speak out, or please, sit down and get out. We are taxed (and tariffed) and tired, and we feel like we have no real representation. Where are YOU? We can support you, but PLEASE, DO YOUR JOB AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, DO YOUR SWORN DUTY TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PEOPLE WHICH IT PROTECTS!
Someone commented today, “Bukele is Trump’s Himmeler”. Bingo. Also today saw a satellite image of the Prison in El Salvador that showed piles of bodies and blood all over the ground. Hitler did this when he started sending people he didn’t like to Poland to “work”…instead they went to Auschwitz.
We are seriously in trouble. It started with the Nazi’s deporting Jews. Which then became JW’s, mentally retarded etc. Anybody that Hitler felt didn’t measure up somehow. And that resulted in 6 million Jews being murdered. And about 14 million others being murdered.
Donny is blowing SCOTUS off and each of us regardless of skin color is next.
Now he's talking about "home grown being next". He's out of his mind! REPUBLICANS . . . DO YOUR GOD DAMNED JOB AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR OWN ASSES WHEN WE ELECTED YOU TO WATCH OUT FOR OURS!
If "home grown" are next, then he-- the person that incited a violent insurrection and the people who participated in storming the Capitol, acting as domestic terrorists, should be sent to El Salvador to rot in jail.
I agree Sara. He's just plain evil. I've never seen a person like him in my life. He seems to delight in other people's pain, especially when he causes them pain.
They should have been fired while Biden was president.... instead they obeyed trump and they did it blatantly. That should have never been allowed. Rump acted like HE was the president throughout Biden's whole term and made his life miserable. And, of course, congress wouldn't give him anything. I have nothing but hate for them all.
Always a pleasure to hear from Olivia and Michael. Their inside perspectives on Trump world are invaluable and much appreciated. Looking forward to catching the livestream of the NYC town hall tomorrow night and the 4pm “pre-game” show - what an incredible lineup of guests!
Looking forward to the Pre-game show, as well as the town hall. I wish I could be in NYC for the live show. But I will livestream. Maybe you will come to my city sometime soon. Thanks.
Olivia, having worked in the White House, do you think this is not really about Trump (because I think he is just too ignorant...let's just say it...STUPID) but rather it's about Stephen Miller pulling the strings??? Stephen Miller gives me the absolute creeps. He is so racist the hate just visually oozes from him. Stephen is just so forceful about tRump signing these executive orders he puts in front of him, and honestly I'm pretty sure tRump has never read them... But Miller for the most part stays in the background running most of the BS until something egregious is learned then he spews his Bullshit defense that is mostly lies but says it so well, that the Maga cult believes it. They do not know any better because they do not care to know any better. What are your thoughts? I think it's Stephen Miller we need to go after and get rid of.
I think it's Stephen Miller too. Trump really isn't that smart. And SM would occassionally throw in a nugget that fuels Trump's "2020 was stolen from me" delusion, like going after people like Chris Krebs, and this keeps Trump distracted and happy, signing whatever EO is slid under his nose without really knowing what it's about.
Trump has always lied. Who will call him out on it?
And I'm feeling stunned hearing that Trump just said during a presser that he wants to send US criminals to El Salvador! So isn't he the person that said other countries were sending criminals to us which is a lie but now he is actually telling Americans this is what he wants to do 🤯🤔 Perfect example of his projection
Criminals? Is that the inference from his hot mic or ‘homegrowns next’ - could that be his perceived enemies, those who speak out about him and criminals? I think it can be any of us.
I was thinking about that the other day.... wonder if he ever goes on Substack? I also worry about the news channels, MSNBC and CNN, CBS. I HATE this so much (that this is happening). I can't help but feel scared. Everything that has happened already is terrifying. BUT I WON'T GIVE IN TO THE FEAR...
The disturbing thing to me is that many un-informed people will be saying "YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT!" Only he doesn't mean sending criminals who hit old ladies over the head. He's talking about people who have the cojones to stand up to him or annoy him or OMG attempt to prosecute him for his crimes. As usual, he picks up on an idea and then twists it to benefit himself.
OMG, he accuses us of the very things that he is actually doing. So far, I haven't heard one Dem speak the way he does. I've believed since 2015 that he was bat-shit crazy. I mean there is something seriously wrong with him.
My mother used to have a saying about it when a was a little girl. Point a finger at someone and there are three fingers pointing back at you. Ever since Trump emerged into the power arena in 2015, you could always tell what he was about to do because he'd start accusing someone else of doing it first. His niece Dr. Mary Trump, a board certified psychologist, says he's a narcissist bordering on sociopath. You can see it in his handwriting, too--the extreme spikes, thick, heavy pressure, and towering letters indicate cruelty and domination. So many people tried to warn us--including our Michael Cohen who learned it the hard way-- and still the deceived thought it was funny and others wanted to be kind and nice and give him the benefit of the doubt. Now we've got him on our back like a gorilla In fight mode. He told us he was going to do this. What the hell did we expect? Sorry to dump like this. It just gets so frustrating sometimes. Sigh.
I don't think I've ever called anyone evil besides Hitler and serial killers like Ted Bundy. Trump qualifies in my book. Hope they'll be happy tormenting each other in hell.
Thank you, Olivia, for saying that hideous name - Stephen Miller. I can't believe some woman looked at him and said, - "Yes, there's the man I want fathering my children." Dreck is only one of the words to describe him.
No one has seen the similarity between the Supreme Court's now questioned use of the word "facilitate" and how it is a not-so- funny flashback to the Bill Clinton questioning of "It." Bill purported that "it depends on what your meaning of the word IS is"
Well, Donald. FACILITATE means that you need to organize his release/extradition/transport home of this INNOCENT man!
Stop playing with semantics.
When a boss or a higher authority uses the word 'facilitate'
I just watched The Beat with Ari Melber and saw the thing at the White House with the El Salvadorian President and trump's outrageous comments about disappearing American citizens to El Salvador ruthless prison for life! He said it!!!!! He thumbed his nose at SCOTUS!!! What is SCOTUS going to do about it? First of all the El Salvadorian president saying he can't smuggle the guy back to US and trump sitting there saying- see? is BS. The American Gov can simply ask El Salvador to return the guy. Not one person in that meeting asked that. If SCOTUS allows trump to get away with letting this admin remove anyone from this country to another country's prison and say now there out so we cant bring them back- they will be there for life! This is straight out fascist. and everyone in that meeting including Rubio just sitting at that meeting!!! The ACLU lawyer arguing the case on Ari's show was dumbfounded about trump's actions and Andrew Weissman said we are now in a Constitutional Crisis.
So ... Trump invited a brown man, dictator Bukele, who was not wearing a "suit" into the Oval, shook hands, told Bukele what a great job his prison is doing and to build five more? Does Bukele have a Trump tattoo on his back a la Roger Stone with RMN? How is this bringing jobs back to America? Don't we have "for profit" prisons equally as hellish as CECOT? Are we really paying El Salvador $6M to hold these men? Because shouldn't we be paying an American hellhole prison to do that? So many broken promises (insert sarcasm emoji here) compressed into nanoseconds.
Jim and Olivia, thank you for your positivity. I am not feeling so hopeful today. I've been feeling for awhile that we just keep moving towards a boiling point. Today, we watched a dictator welcome yet another dictator into the WH- has that happened in the past, this often, this openly? They're being called, "Good presidents!" What??? I LIVED down in Central America and South America. I HEARD people's stories about human rights violations. I am watching der fuhrer parade these characters around, make them say what they want them to say, shoving all of them in front of cameras. Our guy is a coward, always ; he doesn't know. Next steps really need to be hashed out, so that everyone is on the next page, and the movement is big and coordinated. Today it's the guy from Maryland, "irretrievable" from El Salvador, tomorrow it's a citizen, one of US! We move one step, one step more, and one step more towards an imploding democracy with guardrails removed or bent back. There is no cavalry coming. WE are the cavalry. I keep hoping that SOMEONE in Congress or the Senate, SOMEONE will step up, but there is NO ONE.
For those hiding in the other 2 branches of government, our Senators and Representatives who afraid of being primaried, look around and realize that our decaying and failing human condition in the U.S. today is more worthy of being feared. You feel fine and safe today, but once the little rock here and there that's rolling becomes an unstoppable avalanche, what do you do? Run for cover? You have a bigger voices than we do- you represent us, ALL of us, no matter our party affiliations. Please, as I have written in my relentless weekly emails: Stand up and speak out, or please, sit down and get out. We are taxed (and tariffed) and tired, and we feel like we have no real representation. Where are YOU? We can support you, but PLEASE, DO YOUR JOB AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, DO YOUR SWORN DUTY TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PEOPLE WHICH IT PROTECTS!
Bravo!
Someone commented today, “Bukele is Trump’s Himmeler”. Bingo. Also today saw a satellite image of the Prison in El Salvador that showed piles of bodies and blood all over the ground. Hitler did this when he started sending people he didn’t like to Poland to “work”…instead they went to Auschwitz.
Olivia, your bravery is incredible. I am in total awe of you. Thank you, so much, for standing up for America.
We are seriously in trouble. It started with the Nazi’s deporting Jews. Which then became JW’s, mentally retarded etc. Anybody that Hitler felt didn’t measure up somehow. And that resulted in 6 million Jews being murdered. And about 14 million others being murdered.
Donny is blowing SCOTUS off and each of us regardless of skin color is next.
Now he's talking about "home grown being next". He's out of his mind! REPUBLICANS . . . DO YOUR GOD DAMNED JOB AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR OWN ASSES WHEN WE ELECTED YOU TO WATCH OUT FOR OURS!
If "home grown" are next, then he-- the person that incited a violent insurrection and the people who participated in storming the Capitol, acting as domestic terrorists, should be sent to El Salvador to rot in jail.
I agree Sara. He's just plain evil. I've never seen a person like him in my life. He seems to delight in other people's pain, especially when he causes them pain.
They should have been fired while Biden was president.... instead they obeyed trump and they did it blatantly. That should have never been allowed. Rump acted like HE was the president throughout Biden's whole term and made his life miserable. And, of course, congress wouldn't give him anything. I have nothing but hate for them all.
Perfect description. I don’t know why in the world The Cheatin’ Cheetoh was given a platform as if he were the president.
Always a pleasure to hear from Olivia and Michael. Their inside perspectives on Trump world are invaluable and much appreciated. Looking forward to catching the livestream of the NYC town hall tomorrow night and the 4pm “pre-game” show - what an incredible lineup of guests!
Looking forward to the Pre-game show, as well as the town hall. I wish I could be in NYC for the live show. But I will livestream. Maybe you will come to my city sometime soon. Thanks.
Where can the info for the livestream be found?
I’ve got the info now- sorry about the dumb question- the info is plain as day- I’m just blind with fear and outrage.
Olivia, having worked in the White House, do you think this is not really about Trump (because I think he is just too ignorant...let's just say it...STUPID) but rather it's about Stephen Miller pulling the strings??? Stephen Miller gives me the absolute creeps. He is so racist the hate just visually oozes from him. Stephen is just so forceful about tRump signing these executive orders he puts in front of him, and honestly I'm pretty sure tRump has never read them... But Miller for the most part stays in the background running most of the BS until something egregious is learned then he spews his Bullshit defense that is mostly lies but says it so well, that the Maga cult believes it. They do not know any better because they do not care to know any better. What are your thoughts? I think it's Stephen Miller we need to go after and get rid of.
I think it's Stephen Miller too. Trump really isn't that smart. And SM would occassionally throw in a nugget that fuels Trump's "2020 was stolen from me" delusion, like going after people like Chris Krebs, and this keeps Trump distracted and happy, signing whatever EO is slid under his nose without really knowing what it's about.
Is there any other ideas on what can be done to stop this Administration from any more harm? This is all illegal.
Trump has always lied. Who will call him out on it?
And I'm feeling stunned hearing that Trump just said during a presser that he wants to send US criminals to El Salvador! So isn't he the person that said other countries were sending criminals to us which is a lie but now he is actually telling Americans this is what he wants to do 🤯🤔 Perfect example of his projection
Criminals? Is that the inference from his hot mic or ‘homegrowns next’ - could that be his perceived enemies, those who speak out about him and criminals? I think it can be any of us.
I was thinking about that the other day.... wonder if he ever goes on Substack? I also worry about the news channels, MSNBC and CNN, CBS. I HATE this so much (that this is happening). I can't help but feel scared. Everything that has happened already is terrifying. BUT I WON'T GIVE IN TO THE FEAR...
The disturbing thing to me is that many un-informed people will be saying "YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT!" Only he doesn't mean sending criminals who hit old ladies over the head. He's talking about people who have the cojones to stand up to him or annoy him or OMG attempt to prosecute him for his crimes. As usual, he picks up on an idea and then twists it to benefit himself.
OMG, he accuses us of the very things that he is actually doing. So far, I haven't heard one Dem speak the way he does. I've believed since 2015 that he was bat-shit crazy. I mean there is something seriously wrong with him.
My mother used to have a saying about it when a was a little girl. Point a finger at someone and there are three fingers pointing back at you. Ever since Trump emerged into the power arena in 2015, you could always tell what he was about to do because he'd start accusing someone else of doing it first. His niece Dr. Mary Trump, a board certified psychologist, says he's a narcissist bordering on sociopath. You can see it in his handwriting, too--the extreme spikes, thick, heavy pressure, and towering letters indicate cruelty and domination. So many people tried to warn us--including our Michael Cohen who learned it the hard way-- and still the deceived thought it was funny and others wanted to be kind and nice and give him the benefit of the doubt. Now we've got him on our back like a gorilla In fight mode. He told us he was going to do this. What the hell did we expect? Sorry to dump like this. It just gets so frustrating sometimes. Sigh.
I've never known anybody as mean and hateful and nasty as he is.
I don't think I've ever called anyone evil besides Hitler and serial killers like Ted Bundy. Trump qualifies in my book. Hope they'll be happy tormenting each other in hell.
You should bring Mary Trump on
Thank you, Olivia, for saying that hideous name - Stephen Miller. I can't believe some woman looked at him and said, - "Yes, there's the man I want fathering my children." Dreck is only one of the words to describe him.
A lot of serious Nazi shit going on
No one has seen the similarity between the Supreme Court's now questioned use of the word "facilitate" and how it is a not-so- funny flashback to the Bill Clinton questioning of "It." Bill purported that "it depends on what your meaning of the word IS is"
Well, Donald. FACILITATE means that you need to organize his release/extradition/transport home of this INNOCENT man!
Stop playing with semantics.
When a boss or a higher authority uses the word 'facilitate'
IT MEANS ACTUATE IT..
OVERSEE IT..
GET IT THE FUCK DONE.
Tourism is blown up! Who in their right mind is coming here? They’re harassing citizens and foreign visitors alike at arrival!
He tells when he thinks he looks tough and he’s bragging.
Thanks for organizing the moves he’s made. Law firms first, now critics and more large media.
He’s kept maga so angry about J6 and Biden in general. He can’t let go!
I just watched The Beat with Ari Melber and saw the thing at the White House with the El Salvadorian President and trump's outrageous comments about disappearing American citizens to El Salvador ruthless prison for life! He said it!!!!! He thumbed his nose at SCOTUS!!! What is SCOTUS going to do about it? First of all the El Salvadorian president saying he can't smuggle the guy back to US and trump sitting there saying- see? is BS. The American Gov can simply ask El Salvador to return the guy. Not one person in that meeting asked that. If SCOTUS allows trump to get away with letting this admin remove anyone from this country to another country's prison and say now there out so we cant bring them back- they will be there for life! This is straight out fascist. and everyone in that meeting including Rubio just sitting at that meeting!!! The ACLU lawyer arguing the case on Ari's show was dumbfounded about trump's actions and Andrew Weissman said we are now in a Constitutional Crisis.
So ... Trump invited a brown man, dictator Bukele, who was not wearing a "suit" into the Oval, shook hands, told Bukele what a great job his prison is doing and to build five more? Does Bukele have a Trump tattoo on his back a la Roger Stone with RMN? How is this bringing jobs back to America? Don't we have "for profit" prisons equally as hellish as CECOT? Are we really paying El Salvador $6M to hold these men? Because shouldn't we be paying an American hellhole prison to do that? So many broken promises (insert sarcasm emoji here) compressed into nanoseconds.
And how much is this costing us taxpayers? It's millions in payments made to another country --- BY US.
"Are we really paying El Salvador $6M to hold these men?" Yes, that was a rhetorical question.
Yes! THANK YOU
Exactly!!