‘America Unhinged’ Hosts Francesca and Wajahat talk Trump’s freeze on federal aid, MAGA’s attack on DEI, and the failures of the Dems amid this administration’s latest authoritarian power grab.
I sent a snail mail letter to Senator Schumer and Congressman Jeffries thinking it might stand out from emails. I asked why the Democrats are approving cabinet candidates and policies that are the opposite of helping Americans. I added, I am 74, have always voted Democrat and in essence low hanging fruit for Democratic candidates. How can Democrats expect to attract unengaged voters. I commented on the many emails I receive for donations to Democratic organizations like the DCCC. I will continue to support individual candidates that align with my values but not general Democratic organizations unless they return to represent working Americans and critical thinkers like I am.
How Reich Wing of the Trumpublican party. Pass laws making it the law of the land to force women to have children. No abortions whether medically necessary to save their lives or not. So women are dying giving birth to children with the assurance from the aforementioned Reich wing. All of those lawmakers swearing that there are programs and people ready and willing and able to help those who are being forced to give birth. So now Heir Trump has declared war on all of those things that they swore would be there to help. I lost my sight 2 years ago and I'm on disability now. I also have food stamps also known as SNAP. I also used to work, I'm almost well enough to go back but learning how to be blind takes time. So I live in fear that those programs which are helping me in the interim will not be here soon. Do people who are disabled do? Are they planning to send us all to work camps or debtor camps?? We need to start fighting back and stop the theft of our democracy! We are in a democratic crisis! We need the Democratic party to step up put on their big boy, and big girl britches and get to work standing up for those people who can't! Where are our defenders?
Democrats have not been MIA, they have been party to the crime. These two parties are all but one the same. They are there to protect the system and the ruling class, not you or I.
I am in Germany and when my daughter saw this she asked whether Musk would get arrested if he comes to Germany. I don't know, but it is illegal to do Nazi signing here, and I have noticed that instead of attending any meetings here in person, he is teleporting in. So, he knows too.
This is a repeat of the Democratic Party game plan of the last Trump administration. They kept ranting about the threat to democracy and ramped up their fundraising. They never issued a coherent plan for what they were going to do for the working class people of America. There was no accountability when they lost to Trump last and still no accountability when the SAME LEADERSHIP lost to Trump again. I don’t live in a swing state so the Democratic Party said my vote was worthless. They don’t feel that way about wanting my money. We need NEW LEADERSHIP and a party that makes improving the middle classes their #1 priority. They won’t get my vote until they do.
People like Dick are sociopaths. This Florida Senator could have been responded to better. As an effective 3rd and 4th grade teacher I would be telling stories of children who are too little to pick berries. What about the 5 years old. We should learn
Andra Watkins, escaped former Christian Nationalist tells us what the CN meaning is in his words. He is saying. if you are poor God is punishing you for being a sinner, or your parents are sinners, and you are facing jobs wrath. And, having read Project 2025, which is a doctrine to turn the US into a CN theocracy. Therefore, since it is all about End-of-Days, and so no child needs to know anything other than how to read scriptures. They are so about destroying the Public education system and also turning the US into a third world country.
Trump is not doing God's work, he is into doing Putin's work of destroying the US, NATO and the EU from within his alliance with them, so that Putin can disregard us all, and recreate the Soviet Union.
I agree with a robust pushback. It isn't happening from our Democrats. Not enough.
To characterize the Democrats as “MIA” is incorrect. It was state Democratic AGs (among others) who brought the lawsuit that resulted in a temporary injunction against Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. The spending freeze has been roundly condemned by Democratic members of Congress who rightly see it as an attack on the Congressional power of the purse. That Trump order has also been temporarily enjoined by a DC District court judge. Democratic Senators unanimously opposed Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense (joined by three GOP members including former Majority Leader McConnell), while unanimously approving his nominee for Secretary of State. While the voters gave the Republicans a “trifecta” in November — and Trump is using that to throw every harebrained right-wing idea against the wall— that has not prevented timely and consistent efforts by Democrats and others to resist an imperial presidency and Trumpian overreach.
The American People should get their Unions,Churches may be Sports Organisations (NBA,NFL) involved and Mass Protest -peacefully-against the Crazyness that Trump and his Supporters have started.They can use Civil Disobedience and General Strike as well. The People United will never be defeated!
All of these lazy and cowardly and corporately funded Democrats need to be voted out. We need working class candidates. However the ones as useless as Fetterman need not run. I am so sick and tired of Democrats.
Also I saw an episode of Thom Hart and Kyle Kulinski who shared information about the election actually being stolen from us due to massive voter purging and throwing out mail in ballots in swing states. An investigator said most of these ballots were in predominantly black voter districts and college students districts. But will Dems do anything about this?. 🤔 I doubt it.
Please check those two videos out and share your opinions.
I wrote many comments on DemocRATS and RepubliCONS. The bottom line is whatever GOD has decreed will happen. Empires do not fall until they reach to the top of arrogance and extremism. US is still climbing to the top, only to FALL very badly. The more higher you reach the greater the fall will be. So brace for yourself and trust GOD everything happens by his WILL. As long as you are morally right, nothing to worry.
Oh you are so right. It will be the best thing and the worst thing to happen to us. It will be scary but I am already scared. 😳 Actually I am more angry 😡 than scared. I don’t want us to be a corrupt empire anymore.
Unfortunately, I don’t trust major media anymore. I don’t know where the Democrats are. I send messages voicemail and email to my Democratic representatives. I never get messages back. Feels like they’ve left us out to dry. They knew project 2025 was coming. Where is Joe Biden? You would think he would have something to say about this. You would think somebody other than Schumer would have something to say about this, we need a leader. It’s gonna stand up to project 2025. They are putting in a theocracy and Trump doesn’t care because he knows he can clean out the treasury while they do it.
I am a subscriber. I have two questions, what happens to the money collected from tariffs in the US, and can Trump decide to take military action against against Greenland, Panama and Canada without Congressional approval.
Further to Josh's points, the US president can undertake armed conflict / military action unilaterally without a declaration of war approved by Congress for a period of time (I think I recall it's 3 months but could be wrong). To your points;
Panama - doesn't have an effective military so the US could repeat what they did at the turn of the 20th century when they took control of the canal's project/territory and park naval blockades at either end and assume control - well under that time frame. The global response to that is another story though.
Greenland - already has a large US military / space base. Whilst military intervention would be overwhelmingly quick, the response from Denmark / Europe / NATO / Rest of World is another story.
Canada - lets think.... NATO (31 countries minus US), the British Commonwealth (56 countries with some overlap with NATO) would stand against the US... as a minimum.
In all three cases the UN would also activate any emergency measures it could, whatever that may mean.
Re: tariffs, whilst I don't believe it's been explicitly connected yet, seem to be to bolster / substitute federal coffers for the lost government revenues from planned tax cuts. Can't recall if the tax cuts are just for companies or if they extend to indiividuals but I think it's safe to say, if you're a billionaire, you'll appreciate them.
It's not a stretch to realise that Trump NEEDS to start Tariffs/Trade Wars to ensure a replacement for federal revenues when he cuts taxes....but for it to work it has to be widescale...one might say, global.
They tried to create the External Revenue Department to bring in these types of 'tarrifs' or foreign government pay-offs. The oversight I assume would be non-existent. In regards to your military action, Trump cannot declare war without congressional approval but as we've seen with Bush/Obama/Biden they can use various means to skirt this. For Example Trump using the declaration of Mexican Cartels as terrorists gives them larger range to engage with them without declaring war on mexic
I don’t understand why the progressive independent media keeps identifying AOC as bulwark against the establishment. She lied to the people about Harris “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” and supported her knowing she would continue the butchering of Palestinians. She cozied up to Pelosi the queen of the Democrat establishment. I mean WTF! So genocide and ass kissing the establishment is progressive. This is why there is no real left in the US.
I sent a snail mail letter to Senator Schumer and Congressman Jeffries thinking it might stand out from emails. I asked why the Democrats are approving cabinet candidates and policies that are the opposite of helping Americans. I added, I am 74, have always voted Democrat and in essence low hanging fruit for Democratic candidates. How can Democrats expect to attract unengaged voters. I commented on the many emails I receive for donations to Democratic organizations like the DCCC. I will continue to support individual candidates that align with my values but not general Democratic organizations unless they return to represent working Americans and critical thinkers like I am.
How Reich Wing of the Trumpublican party. Pass laws making it the law of the land to force women to have children. No abortions whether medically necessary to save their lives or not. So women are dying giving birth to children with the assurance from the aforementioned Reich wing. All of those lawmakers swearing that there are programs and people ready and willing and able to help those who are being forced to give birth. So now Heir Trump has declared war on all of those things that they swore would be there to help. I lost my sight 2 years ago and I'm on disability now. I also have food stamps also known as SNAP. I also used to work, I'm almost well enough to go back but learning how to be blind takes time. So I live in fear that those programs which are helping me in the interim will not be here soon. Do people who are disabled do? Are they planning to send us all to work camps or debtor camps?? We need to start fighting back and stop the theft of our democracy! We are in a democratic crisis! We need the Democratic party to step up put on their big boy, and big girl britches and get to work standing up for those people who can't! Where are our defenders?
Democrats have not been MIA, they have been party to the crime. These two parties are all but one the same. They are there to protect the system and the ruling class, not you or I.
Would like to share this meme from Jeff Tiedrich's Substack that someone isolated.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82b253bd-280b-4f75-8665-01d7be095d79_465x225.gif
I am in Germany and when my daughter saw this she asked whether Musk would get arrested if he comes to Germany. I don't know, but it is illegal to do Nazi signing here, and I have noticed that instead of attending any meetings here in person, he is teleporting in. So, he knows too.
This is a repeat of the Democratic Party game plan of the last Trump administration. They kept ranting about the threat to democracy and ramped up their fundraising. They never issued a coherent plan for what they were going to do for the working class people of America. There was no accountability when they lost to Trump last and still no accountability when the SAME LEADERSHIP lost to Trump again. I don’t live in a swing state so the Democratic Party said my vote was worthless. They don’t feel that way about wanting my money. We need NEW LEADERSHIP and a party that makes improving the middle classes their #1 priority. They won’t get my vote until they do.
Do we need any more evidence of the TOTAL INCOMPETENCE of Democratic Party leadership?
People like Dick are sociopaths. This Florida Senator could have been responded to better. As an effective 3rd and 4th grade teacher I would be telling stories of children who are too little to pick berries. What about the 5 years old. We should learn
Andra Watkins, escaped former Christian Nationalist tells us what the CN meaning is in his words. He is saying. if you are poor God is punishing you for being a sinner, or your parents are sinners, and you are facing jobs wrath. And, having read Project 2025, which is a doctrine to turn the US into a CN theocracy. Therefore, since it is all about End-of-Days, and so no child needs to know anything other than how to read scriptures. They are so about destroying the Public education system and also turning the US into a third world country.
Trump is not doing God's work, he is into doing Putin's work of destroying the US, NATO and the EU from within his alliance with them, so that Putin can disregard us all, and recreate the Soviet Union.
I agree with a robust pushback. It isn't happening from our Democrats. Not enough.
If you are not hearing Democrat objections, your information conduits are deficient.
To characterize the Democrats as “MIA” is incorrect. It was state Democratic AGs (among others) who brought the lawsuit that resulted in a temporary injunction against Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. The spending freeze has been roundly condemned by Democratic members of Congress who rightly see it as an attack on the Congressional power of the purse. That Trump order has also been temporarily enjoined by a DC District court judge. Democratic Senators unanimously opposed Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense (joined by three GOP members including former Majority Leader McConnell), while unanimously approving his nominee for Secretary of State. While the voters gave the Republicans a “trifecta” in November — and Trump is using that to throw every harebrained right-wing idea against the wall— that has not prevented timely and consistent efforts by Democrats and others to resist an imperial presidency and Trumpian overreach.
The American People should get their Unions,Churches may be Sports Organisations (NBA,NFL) involved and Mass Protest -peacefully-against the Crazyness that Trump and his Supporters have started.They can use Civil Disobedience and General Strike as well. The People United will never be defeated!
All of these lazy and cowardly and corporately funded Democrats need to be voted out. We need working class candidates. However the ones as useless as Fetterman need not run. I am so sick and tired of Democrats.
Also I saw an episode of Thom Hart and Kyle Kulinski who shared information about the election actually being stolen from us due to massive voter purging and throwing out mail in ballots in swing states. An investigator said most of these ballots were in predominantly black voter districts and college students districts. But will Dems do anything about this?. 🤔 I doubt it.
Please check those two videos out and share your opinions.
I wrote many comments on DemocRATS and RepubliCONS. The bottom line is whatever GOD has decreed will happen. Empires do not fall until they reach to the top of arrogance and extremism. US is still climbing to the top, only to FALL very badly. The more higher you reach the greater the fall will be. So brace for yourself and trust GOD everything happens by his WILL. As long as you are morally right, nothing to worry.
Oh you are so right. It will be the best thing and the worst thing to happen to us. It will be scary but I am already scared. 😳 Actually I am more angry 😡 than scared. I don’t want us to be a corrupt empire anymore.
Unfortunately, I don’t trust major media anymore. I don’t know where the Democrats are. I send messages voicemail and email to my Democratic representatives. I never get messages back. Feels like they’ve left us out to dry. They knew project 2025 was coming. Where is Joe Biden? You would think he would have something to say about this. You would think somebody other than Schumer would have something to say about this, we need a leader. It’s gonna stand up to project 2025. They are putting in a theocracy and Trump doesn’t care because he knows he can clean out the treasury while they do it.
I am a subscriber. I have two questions, what happens to the money collected from tariffs in the US, and can Trump decide to take military action against against Greenland, Panama and Canada without Congressional approval.
Further to Josh's points, the US president can undertake armed conflict / military action unilaterally without a declaration of war approved by Congress for a period of time (I think I recall it's 3 months but could be wrong). To your points;
Panama - doesn't have an effective military so the US could repeat what they did at the turn of the 20th century when they took control of the canal's project/territory and park naval blockades at either end and assume control - well under that time frame. The global response to that is another story though.
Greenland - already has a large US military / space base. Whilst military intervention would be overwhelmingly quick, the response from Denmark / Europe / NATO / Rest of World is another story.
Canada - lets think.... NATO (31 countries minus US), the British Commonwealth (56 countries with some overlap with NATO) would stand against the US... as a minimum.
In all three cases the UN would also activate any emergency measures it could, whatever that may mean.
Re: tariffs, whilst I don't believe it's been explicitly connected yet, seem to be to bolster / substitute federal coffers for the lost government revenues from planned tax cuts. Can't recall if the tax cuts are just for companies or if they extend to indiividuals but I think it's safe to say, if you're a billionaire, you'll appreciate them.
It's not a stretch to realise that Trump NEEDS to start Tariffs/Trade Wars to ensure a replacement for federal revenues when he cuts taxes....but for it to work it has to be widescale...one might say, global.
Hope this helps a little.
They tried to create the External Revenue Department to bring in these types of 'tarrifs' or foreign government pay-offs. The oversight I assume would be non-existent. In regards to your military action, Trump cannot declare war without congressional approval but as we've seen with Bush/Obama/Biden they can use various means to skirt this. For Example Trump using the declaration of Mexican Cartels as terrorists gives them larger range to engage with them without declaring war on mexic
I don’t understand why the progressive independent media keeps identifying AOC as bulwark against the establishment. She lied to the people about Harris “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” and supported her knowing she would continue the butchering of Palestinians. She cozied up to Pelosi the queen of the Democrat establishment. I mean WTF! So genocide and ass kissing the establishment is progressive. This is why there is no real left in the US.
Francesca - the majority of people benefiting from social programs are white not BIPOC.