Robert Reich compares Trump’s presidency to the worst presidents in American history.

 

 

 

Trump ranked dead last as worst president ever in U.S. history

Trump has been ranked the worst president in U.S. history in a new poll of historians and scholars. NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss joins Joy Reid to discuss.

 

75 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency

 

Top 10 Reasons to Vote Against Trump

 

Sportscaster Bob Costas Explains why Trump is the Worst President in History

“Trump is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history. He’s only become more disgraceful since 2016. he is a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits and it’s only those who are suffering from Trump derangement syndrome which is the way they and Fox News and all the rest of MAGA media try to brush aside all the legitimate criticisms of trump you have to be in delusion in an a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense emotionally psychologically intellectually or ethically fit to be president of the United States but his supporters are locked in on that.

Chief of Staff John Kelly said: the depth of his dishonesty is astonishing. He is a person who has no idea what America is all about. A person who has nothing but contempt for our Democratic institutions our constitution and the rule of law. God help us all. The Trump delusion is not going away on the right

 

National Security Advisor John Bolton says World Leaders considered Trump to be a “laughing fool”

 

Former Republican Strategist Steve Schmidt calls Trump an Imbecile and Worst President in History

 

Trump was a National Embarrassment. People around the world thought he behaved like a spoiled brat toddler

 

Foreign Diplomats Call Trump A Laughing Stock Who Is Obsessed With Obama

 

Trump is not a ‘super genius,’ but rather he is an unstable incompetent narcissist who conned his way into the White House with help of foreign interference.

 

A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 documented reports by Cabinet members, Oval Office advisers, Republican Party officials and the President himself having childlike behavior and temper tantrums. Reports claim White House aides had to treat Trump like a child in order to placate him.

Staffers claim he was unable to stay focused, had a 2 minute attention span… former DHS official claims classified memos had to be ‘dumbed down’ so he could understand them… reported to have required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself Twice a Day. Top White House officials described Trump as; “a f***ing moron”, “he tries to divide us”, “he’s an Idiot”, “a professional liar”, “thinks he God”, “like an 11 year old child”, “dumb as shit”, “dope with the intelligence of a kindergartner” & “don’t think he’s fit for office”.

 

 

Republicans in 2016 called Trump a ‘Con Artist‘ who’s ‘been exploiting working Americans for 40 years’. Ted Cruz called Trump a ‘Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth’ & ‘a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen’. Rand Paul; ‘Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag’ & ‘my concern is that he would grab up that power and treat the country as sort of his bully fiefdom‘. Nikki Haley; ‘Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten’. Lindsey Graham; ‘he’s a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot’ & I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office. Kellyanne Conway; ‘he says he’s for the little guy but he’s actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy’. Mike Pompeo; ‘Donald Trump the other day said that it quote if he tells a soldier to commit a war crime the soldier will just do it’. Glenn Beck; ‘I don’t think Donald Trump has has even read the constitution & knows what’s in the constitution’. Rick Perry; ‘a toxic mix of demagoguery and mean spiritedness and nonsense’ and Susan Collins; ‘I just cannot support Donald Trump’.

 

Video shows how unhinged and unfit Trump is to be President by suggesting that COVID-19 patients could use bleach, disinfectant or powerful beams of light as effective treatments.

 

White House Aides Admit They Treat Trump Like A Child

 

A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 documented reports by Cabinet members, Oval Office advisers, Republican Party officials and the President himself having childlike behavior and temper tantrums.

 

Former DHS official claims classified memos had to be ‘dumbed down’ so Trump could understand them

 

Required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself Twice a Day

 

Staffers claim Trump was unable to stay focused & had a 2 – 4 minute attention span

 

TRUMP TWO MINUTE ATTENTION SPAN

The Washington Post citing inside sources say Trump has the short attention span of a child of 2 to 4 minutes

 

Video Title: Donald Trump’s daily ‘propaganda document’

Not only does Trump have a limited attention span of about 2 minutes, it’s reported that he requires a folder of positive news about himself twice a day.

 

 

Trump Regularly ‘Can’t Remember What He’s Said,’ White House Insider Says

“Behind closed doors his own top officials deride him as an ‘idiot’ and a ‘moron,'” an anonymous senior Trump official says in a new book.

The above article claims “White House Insider Says Trump Regularly ‘Can’t Remember What He’s Said or Been Told”

 

White House Aides Say Trump Acting Like Spoiled, Clueless Child

 

Not only was Trump the Worst President in History… he behaved like a Ignoramus and was a National Embarrassment

 

 

After learning that he lost the 2020 election, Trump refused to admit defeat and claimed without any proof that the election was stolen. 5 deaths were attributed to his inciting violence to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.

 

Traitor Trump!

 

ABC News reports that special counsel Jack Smith has obtained new evidence about Trump’s inaction on Jan. 6. Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham discusses the reporting.

 

Espionage – Trump is joining the traitor’s hall of fame for stealing our county’s secrets while LAWLESS Republicans Defend and Protect him

 

Miles Taylor served as the Chief of Staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. What he saw firsthand terrified him.

 

Olivia Troye was Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President Pence, and served as Vice President Pence’s lead staff member on the COVID-19 response.

 

As the Covid death toll continues to rise, is Trump no longer just one of the worst presidents in American history—but the worst of them all? Presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Mehdi Hasan discuss.

 

TRUMP FAILED AMERICA

 

Republican Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt calls Trump “The Worst President The Country’s Ever Had”

 

‘The worst president ever. Period’: Cuomo unloads on Trump

CNN’s Chris Cuomo says that President Donald Trump’s pardons of Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, his threat to upend a bipartisan Covid-19 relief bill, and veto of a military spending bill cements Trump as the worst president ever. Dec 23, 2020

 

Worst Presidency In American History Ends In Calamity

Rachel Maddow reviews the collection of crises, court cases and criminal investigations Donald Trump faces and wonders if he, like many Americans, wishes he could take back the last four or five years. Aired on 01/20/2021

 

Chris Hayes: Trump Must Be Removed From Office And Tried For Sedition

“He needs to be removed from office, quickly. And then he should be arrested and tried for sedition. That is where we are right now. Anyone who pretends otherwise is deluded,” says Chris Hayes. Aired on 1/7/2021.

 

Woodward: The Existence Of Trump In The Presidency Was A National Security Crisis

Co-authors of the new book “Peril” Bob Woodward and Robert Costa discuss the documents, memos, and private conversation behind what amounts to a coup plot by the former president and the measures military leaders took to protect the country from him.

 

‘God help us’: John Kelly issues scathing statement on Trump

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. CNN’s Jake Tapper discusses with former Trump administration national security advisor John Bolton.

 

 

Litany of Campaign staff, Cabinet members, Lawyers for Trump and personal businesses which have found themselves in legal trouble

 

 

Trump and 18 others indicted in Georgia for trying to overturn 2020 election

 

CNN’s Anderson Cooper breaks down a new ABC report that former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed sensitive nuclear submarine information with a Mar-a-Lago member, and discusses with a panel of experts.

 

Trump Wanted to Launch Missiles into Mexico

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in his new memoir “A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times”, that President Trump suggested to him at least twice during the summer of 2020 that the United States could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” and that it could be done secretly. Trump even said the operation could be conducted “quietly” and that the U.S. could simply deny it had anything to do with it. “No one would know it was us,” Trump said, according to Esper.

Trump also suggested shooting migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border and shooting Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrating outside of the White House. “Can’t you just shoot them?” Trump asked, according to Esper.

 

Former COVID-19 Task Force Member Describes Political Pressure On Scientists

Olivia Troye, former adviser to Mike Pence on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the better judgment of scientists was bullied and pressured by White House officials to better serve Donald Trump’s political agenda. Aired on 09/25/2020.

 

New damning report about Trump’s response to Covid-19

A House oversight committee report reveals that the Trump administration made deliberate efforts to undermine the nation’s Covid-19 response.

 

With over 200,000 Americans dead… Trump says Covid affects almost nobody

 

Trump wanted to send COVID-infected Americans to Guantanamo, according to a new book

“Testing is killing me!” the book claims Trump said to then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on March 18. “I’m going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?”

 

Axios reporter Jonathan Swan describes a December 18 meeting between President Donald Trump, White House officials and conspiracy theorists that ended in a profanity-laced shouting match. Swan, who has covered Donald Trump’s presidency for years, called it one of the most dark and demented meetings of the administration.

 

Trump White House EXPOSED as PILL-MILL in SHOCKING Report

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the release of the Department of Defense Inspector General report on unlawful prescriptions of hard drugs in the Trump White House and how the White House became a pill-mill under Donald Trump.

 

TRUMP: Worst President in History top 10

 

Former White House Photographer Warns About Trump

Former White House photographer Pete Souza served under Democratic and Republican administrations — and now he’s sounding alarms about Pres. Trump.

 

“Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasses hammered Donald Trump in a Washington Examiner Leaked Recording. Sasse said in his comments that: “The way he kisses dictators’ butts. “The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women, spends like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticize President Obama for that kind of spending; I’ve criticized President Trump for as well. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity.”

 

Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has told friends that President Donald Trump “is the most flawed person” he’s ever known. “The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,” the retired Marine general has told friends.

 

Ex-DHS Official: Trump Wanted To Trade Puerto Rico For Greenland

 

Ex-Trump Official Endorses Biden, Calls Trump Terrifying

 

 

Putin paid a bounty to kill American soldiers. Donald Trump knew about it but did nothing. How can Trump lead America when he can’t even defend it?

 

Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is heard criticizing her brother in private, saying the president “has no principles.” CNN’s Jake Tapper discusses the audio, first reported by The Washington Post, which was secretly recorded by President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump.

 

Ex-Pence aide details task force struggles with White House

 

Former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention in Trump’s DHS discusses her experience with the president and why she’s ad .

 

Had enough of Trump?

 

This is who Trump is

 

Trump knew about coronavirus and did nothing!

 

 

“I think my party made a bad mistake, and I’m going to have to vote against that mistake on the 3rd of November.”

 

 

Trump didn’t make America great… he’s done more damage than any other president in history

 

Nothing Else Like Trump’s ‘Cavernous Stupidity’ In U.S. History

Historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley and Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post react to the wild speculation we have seen from the president amid his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

TRUMP SCANDALS

Trump Scandals Pass By, Lose Spotlight To New Trump Scandals

Donald Trump has been involved in so many scandals since becoming President that many slide by despite their seriousness because they’re so quickly supplanted by a new scandal

 

100 of Trump’s Most Tremendous Scandals

 

Trump scandals risk inuring Americans to government corruption

Rachel Maddow reviews a list of less reported but no less outrageous current Trump administration scandals and notes that beyond the big Trump Russia scandal, Americans must retain their ability to be shocked by corruption and demand action be taken.

 

 

Axios managed to get a copy of Trump’s official schedule and you can see that the majority of his time is allocated to “Executive time”.

Per an article at; thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2020/11/15/how-many-times-president-donald-trump-played-golf-in-office-103836/

“Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2017, Mr. Trump has reportedly been on the grounds of his golf courses or played golf elsewhere 296 times since becoming President, and that’s as of Nov. 15, 2020.

The cost of Trump’s golf rounds to the American taxpayer varies by round and course, but it has totaled so far in the tens of millions of dollars. The Secret Service has spent at least $550,000 in third-party golf cart rentals and over $500,000 to stay overnight at Trump-owned properties, including his New Jersey country club.

 

He previously was on pace to visit his golf clubs more than 650 times in an eight-year presidency. However, his pace as of Aug. 6, 2018 now indicates Trump would spend as much as 745 days of his presidency at a golf course if he wins a second term and serves both terms to completion.

Trump ended 2017 with 91 golf course visits and was just shy of 100 visits in Year 1 as President. In his second year as President, Trump played golf 76 times.

Trump has spent nearly 22 percent of his days in office at one of his golf properties for some portion of the day. There have been days where Trump has visited one of his golf clubs and not played golf. He made a 40-minute visit to his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., and he has made a three-day visit to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to watch the 2017 US Women’s Open, unfolding at that club. Trump spent a 17-day “working vacation” at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., in August, which meant all of those days count as days on his golf courses, even though he didn’t necessarily play golf on all of those days”.

 

Trump Family Has Already Taken 12 Times More Vacations Than Obama

Trump and his grown children have already taken 12 times more vacations and protected travels in 3 years than the Obama family took in 8. These are trips where they are given Secret Service protection, costing taxpayers millions of dollars over the last few years.

 

Former GOP Strategist: Trump ‘Utterly Incapable Of Leadership’

Coronavirus-related job losses top 20.5 million, as the unemployment rate reaches almost 15 percent, the highest rate since The Great Depression. Joy Reid and her panel discuss a new ad from The Lincoln Project called ‘Mourning in America, that details horrible outcomes of the mismanagement of the pandemic.

 

Title from YouTube: “Trump Demands Governors Praise Him If They Want Help For Their State”

Description from YouTube: “During a virtual townhall on Fox News this week, Donald Trump claimed that if state governor’s want his help, it is “a two-way street.” It isn’t exactly clear what this means, but it is likely that Trump wants state governors to fall in line and either blindly support him or offer unending praise during this crisis”.

 

Trump’s Psychosis On Full Display At Disgusting Minnesota Rally

 

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called President Trump the ‘worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country’ and blasted him as not being a friend of the working class.

 

4-Star U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey say Trump is a “Serious Threat to our National Security”

 

Trump Exaggerating Economic Success

 

Trump’s 40 Biggest Broken Promises Revealed

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich provides an updated list of Donald Trump’s 40 biggest broken promises.

“I’m not going to have time to go play golf.” Trump has visited his golf courses 286 times, costing American taxpayers $140,000,000.

“[COVID will] go away without a vaccine.” The virus has killed more than 170,000 Americans, and that number is still climbing.

“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” Trump’s budget included billions in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

 

 

 

 

 

Republicans are passing BIG GOVERNMENT Fascist laws to regulate every aspect of American’s lives, including in your bedroom. They’re trying taking away women’s contraceptives and want to make the abortion pill illegal. Soon it will be condoms.

 

Republicans want BIG GOVERNMENT to regulate your sex life

 

Crazy Items in the Project 2025 Leader’s Book That Trump Doesn’t Want You to Read

Project 2025 leader and Heritage Foundation president, Kevin Roberts, is exposed for his deranged and dangerous goals in book that gets delayed to release in order to help Donald Trump with voters. Items include forcing couples to have children (whether they want them or not).

 

The Supreme Court ruled (Jun 30, 2014) in a 5-4 vote that private corporations can reject insurance coverage of birth control based on their religious beliefs. This was the beginning of the where we are today where Religious beliefs are dictating Theocratic laws written and enforced by Radical Right Wing Religious Fanatic Republicans.

 

A growing number of today’s Republicans no longer believe there should be a separation between church and state.

 

Republican Christian Nationalists admitting they want Trump to be a Dictator and eliminate Democracy

The reason Republican Christian Nationalist want a dictatorship is because they know the majority doesn’t share their radical beliefs, so they want to take control of the government and CRAM their radical beliefs down the majority’s throats.

 

Republicans in Classrooms

 

Republicans censuring Books

 

Video above shows how Only 36% Of Republicans Support Freedom Of The Press

 

Trump Supporters Are Excited By The Idea Of Him Being A Dictator

Donald Trump did exactly what most of us expected, and he actually convinced his base that he SHOULD be a dictator if he gets back into office, and that it is somehow a good thing to trample on the Constitution. Ever since Trump first made his dictator comments, his supporters have been quick to defend and ultimately offer their praise of the comments, and that part isn’t dying down, either. A new poll also shows that a strong number of Iowa voters say that his rhetoric makes it MORE likely that they will support him.

 

Hungary Is a Version of What Republicans Wants For The U.S.

Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.

 

Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.

 

Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere.

 

Similar to Russia and North Korea, Republicans Anti-Protest Laws Violates Freedom of Speech

Similar to how Russia & North Korea stifles Freedom of Speech, Republicans are doing the same in the United States by passing more than 80 Anti-Protest Bills in 34 States they control.

 

 

Republicans are Threatening our Liberty & Freedom… passing Anti-Choice Legislation Against Women, Turning the U.S. into a Gestapo Secret Police State by Placing $10,000 Bounties on anyone who helps a Women get an Abortion, Forcing 10 yr/old Girls to give Birth to a Rapist Child, passing laws which Criminalize Assembly & Protests, Laws Limiting what can be Discussed & Taught in Classrooms, Banning Books, Laws Legalizing Running over & Killing Protestors, Rigging Elections by Gerrymandering, Voter Obstruction, Voter Purges, Passing laws to Overturn Election Results, Decreasing Voting by Mail, Decreasing Drop Boxes, Decreasing the Days & Hours people can Vote, Making it Illegal to give Food or Water to people waiting in Long Lines they’re responsible for causing to make it difficult to Vote, Conspiracy Theories, LIES and refusing to eliminate the Electoral College which made two (2) unpopular & unqualified Republicans Presidents, who the majority didn’t vote for.

 

 

 

 

 

Videos show, the 2023 and 2010 Republican-led House of Representatives is the WORST & LEAST productive in history

 

GOP Stupid Party

 

Democrat Jared Moskowitz mocks GOP colleagues over their legislative ‘accomplishments’

 

 

MAGA Congress had ‘historically unproductive’ year in 2023

It was a history-making year for the Republican-led Congress—but not in a good way. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) joins to discuss the GOP agenda, the evidence-free Biden impeachment probe, reaching young voters, Lauren Boebert switching districts, and more.

 

‘Clown show’: Another resignation as dysfunction and disunity plague House GOP

As Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson leads Congress to historic levels of inaction, another member announced his resignation, further shaving the already tiny GOP majority. This may not be Johnson’s problem for long, however, as Marjorie Taylor Greene today filed a motion to oust him from the speakership.

 

House historian on GOP chaos: ‘It hasn’t been this bad since before the Civil War’

Norm Ornstein, Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Raymond Smock, former historian of the U.S. House of Representatives, speak to Ali Velshi about the unprecedented levels of disorder and chaotic infighting gripping the U.S. House of Representatives after more than two weeks without a speaker and what methods could be used to resolve it.

 

2010 GOP House of Representatives: 2nd Least Productive in History

On Face the Nation, Speaker John Boehner was asked about his record of presiding over the least productive and least popular Congress in history. He responded by defending the obstructionist policies of far-right Republicans and said that Congress should be, “judged on how many laws we repeal.” If you ever had any doubts, this confirms it — Republicans would rather obstruct than govern.

 

The 113th Republican Majority House of Representatives is the Least Productive in History. When Democrats had control of the house, senate and presidency in 2008 they got a lot accomplished. Most of the bills passed benefited regular Americans.

That’s because Democrats represents regular Americans and Republicans represents the $Rich$ and Radical Right Wing.

 

 

 

Trump is constantly calling Democrats “Radical Left Wing Lunatics” when it’s TRUMP who is the REAL Lunatic. As shown in the above video in which Dr. John Gartner stated; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies.”

Former Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lance Dodes suggested; “He lies in the way anybody who scams people does. He’s tried to sell an idea or a product by telling you something that is untrue. There is also the kind of lie he has that in a way is more serious — that he has a loose grip on reality. His grasp of reality, his attention to reality is loose. This is an extremely dangerous trait in a president. It actually makes him unqualified.”

Ted Cruz calls Trump a “Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies” and claims Trump “is a narcissist at a level this country’s never seen”.

Even ex-Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan referred to Trump as an ‘Authoritarian Narcissist’. No normal person would lie with impunity like Trump has (over 30,000 times while President), refuse to admit he lost the election, claim he won after he lost, then instigate a coup and insurrection to overturn the election after he lost.

Trump hates Democrats because they refuse to kiss his ass. His claiming Democrats has engaged in ‘election interference’ for prosecuting him for crimes he’s committed is BULLSHIT. He uses the term “election interference” to whitewash and normalize his own criminality, which it appears a large segment of the U.S. population has bought into… ‘hook, line, and sinker’. Democrats has been upholding the rule of law by holding him accountable for his numerous violations of the law and United States Constitution.

 

REPUBLICANS who are the one’s who are ‘RADICAL’ RIGHT WING FASCISTS…. passing Anti-Choice Legislation Against Women, forcing 10 year old girls to give birth to her rapists child, no exceptions for rape or insist, turning the U.S. into a Gestapo Secret Police State by Placing $10,000 Bounties on anyone who helps a Women get an Abortion, laws limiting what can be discussed in classrooms with huge fines of $10,000 against teachers for violations, Banning Books, their war on LGB & Transgenders, punishing Disney for exercising their freedom of speech, passing laws which Criminalize Assembly & Protests, Laws Legalizing Running over & Killing Protestors, Rigging Elections by Gerrymandering, Decreasing the number of Days and Hours people can Vote, Purging Minorities off Voters Rolls, Decreasing Drop-boxes, Decreasing Voting Machines in Urban areas, Limiting Polling locations / hours, Making it harder to Vote by Mail, Making it a Crime to give Food or Water to people having the wait in long lines they’re responsible for causing to discourage people from voting, Passing laws to overturn election results they don’t like, Conspiracy Theories, LIES and refusing to eliminate the Electoral College which made two (2) unpopular & unqualified Republicans Presidents, who the majority didn’t vote for, voting to cut Healthcare, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

 

 

On Veterans Day, November 11, 2023 Trump stated; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.

Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.

 

In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

Democrats are NOT Socialist, Marxist or Communists. Trump and Republicans are the ones who LIE , cheat and tried to steal the 2020 election.

 

 

TRUMP is the one who is the liar. The Washington Post reported that Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading statements during his time in office.

 

Trump and Republicans are the REAL Fascist

 

Trump & Republicans use boogeyman phrases like “Socialist”, “Marxist” “Communists” and “Democrats will take your guns away” to SCARE uninformed people into voting for them and NOT voting for Democrats, the very party dedicated to improving lives of the middle class and the poor. Most Republicans couldn’t accurately describe what Marxism, Socialism or Communism means if they’re life depended on it. Scare tactics is Trump & Republicans stock-in-trade, because they have nothing else to offer. Trump will do anything and say anything to get people to vote for him to stay out of prison.

When Republicans use their old, tired scare tactic campaign slogan that their going to Fight the “Democrats Socialist Agenda”, what they’re really saying is they want to take away your Affordable Health Care, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other programs which benefit the middle class and the poor.

All Republicans care about is maintaining POWER and giving Tax breaks to the RICH so they can stay in power. They do NOTHING for the Middle Class and the Poor. What has a Republican ever done for you and your family?

 

In an interview with Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker on May 9, 2018, Trump Stated about the United States Constitution; “I’ve seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess. We need to tear it up and start over. The first thing we do when we pull out of the Constitution is get rid of two of those branches. He also called the First Amendment “something that really has to go. No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution. Russia doesn’t have it. North Korea doesn’t have it. All the best countries don’t have it.”

 

 

REPUBLICANS making threats such Trump crony Steve Bannon saying “We mock your fear, we want your fear” and After we’ve won, the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.

No mention of what specific “crimes” they intend to prosecute political opponents for (because there aren’t any). They just want RETRIBUTION and to get even for being held accountable for THEIR crimes of attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

 

Trump and his cronies have openly stated they intend to “terminate rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution”, invoke the “Insurrection Act” & declare “Martial Law” to Quash Protests, use “Shock Troops” to take over the government, replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, eliminate Freedom of Speech and shut down media outlets which have been critical of him. Trump believes a President should have absolute “Presidential Immunity” to the extent he could order the executions of a political opponent and be immune to criminal prosecution. He’s promised to ‘root out’ those who he thinks are ‘communists, marxists and ‘the radical left’. This means anyone who opposes him.

Trump & his cronies have made it clear they intend to turn the Presidency into a Presidential Dictatorship using plans outlined in ‘Project 2025’, plus seek retribution against political enemies, eliminate Freedom of Speech and shut down news outlets which are critical of him.

 

Kash Patel, who may be a member of Trump’s administration, stated in the above video; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you” when it’s REPUBLICANS who LIED and tried to STEAL the 2020 election.

 

Steve Bannon stated in the above video: “The evening after we’ve won, the Accountability Project’s going to start. It’s going to be they’re gonna be in prison”

 

Steve Bannon using threats such as; ‘we mock your fear, we want your fear’. We want you to be afraid because we are going to be coming after those who oppose Donald Trump and he will be imbued with authority to punish you.

 

 

 

Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.

Below is the post Davis referenced in the above video about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.

 

 

 

On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.

 

Trump believes he has Presidential Immunity which gives him a right to do anything he wants and not be held accountable

 

On November 29 2023, Trump stated that he wants the ‘Federal Government to come down Hard on MSNBC’ for its criticism of him.

Trump & his crony’s statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens Rights on DAY ONE. His claiming he’s only going to be a Dictator for ONE DAY is BS. Fact Checkers found Trump lied over 30,000 times while President, so he has no credibility. He did everything possible to stay in office after he lost in 2020. If he gets back in the White House in 2024, he isn’t leaving… he’s made it clear; he wants to be a DICTATOR FOR LIFE.

Trump and those in his potential ‘administration’ have made it clear; they plan on engaging in a reign of LAWLESSNESS and TERROR, where dissenters are arrested, locked up and executed.

 

Three former Trump White House staffers says a 2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’

 

 

 

The evidence is overwhelming that Trump is GUILTY as charged.

 

On 26 October 2016, 11 days before election day, Michael Cohen initiated a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. While prosecutors have identified two other hush-money payments to people who said they had stories about Trump, one a former Trump Tower doorman and the other Karen McDougal a former Playboy model, the actual charges for the case stem just from Daniels’ payments. That’s because the other hush-money payments were made by American Media, the parent company of the tabloid National Enquirer. Leaders of the company, especially the then CEO, David Pecker, were close allies of Trump and told him early in his campaign that they would help him with any scandalous stories that might come out about him.

But Trump paid Daniels himself, albeit through Cohen. Each of the 34 counts of falsifying business records represents a document that prosecutors said included hush-money payments masked as legal fees to Cohen. [source: theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-timeline]

 

 

Trump posted this Threat; “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!”

 

 

Trump threatening revenge with a extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making a threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”

 

 

Trump posts disturbing baseball bat photo with Alvin Bragg, threatens ‘death and destruction’

Former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by sharing images of him holding a baseball bat next Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head.

March 24, 2023: Trump threatened “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged in New York — writing the shocking social media warning after posting an image of himself holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head. Trump shared the image of himself holding a baseball bat — with Bragg’s hands up — on his Truth Social platform Thursday as he devoted his day to attacking the prosecutor for pursuing a case over a “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump PROVES he’s a LAWLESS THUG who should be ARRESTED and LOCKED UP for making threats: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” & “If you f— around with us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before & threatening “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged for his crimes in New York.

This is how MOB BOSSES and CRIMINALS behave and is more PROOF that Trump IS the Most Lawless, Corrupt & Dangerous President in History, which the RNC is condoning & promoting by having him on their ticket as their Presidential candidate.

 

Donald Trump THREATENS NY DA Alvin Bragg in violation of NY state law

“Former President Donald Trump threatened New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as Bragg investigates and prepares to indict Trump for his earlier New York crimes. Specifically, Trump indicates there will be “death and destruction” if Bragg indicts hims. Then, Trump commits a second crime by posting a picture of himself, holding a baseball bat, mid-swing, next to a picture DA Bragg whose hand is upraised as if in a defensive posture.

This conduct by Trump violates New York penal law section 195.05, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree: “a person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree when that person intentionally . . . attempts to prevent a public servant from performing an official function, by means of intimidation or interference . . . ”

 

Trump attacks led to ‘serious and credible’ death threats to court

New documents in the New York fraud case against Donald Trump reveal that the ex-president’s attacks on the judge’s clerk resulted in “hundreds of threatening and harassing” messages against her. Nov 22, 2023

 

Trump Attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis Pleads GUILTY to attempting to overturn the 2020 election and making false statements

 

Federal Judge Excoriates Nine (9) of Trump Lawyers for False Claims about the 2020 Election, Refers Them For Disbarment – Aug 26, 2021

Judge Linda V. Parker of the Federal District Court rules that lawsuits filed to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss in Michigan were not actually about any legal issues but were political stunts to undermine the integrity of the election.

 

Trump’s LAWLESS, Criminal Administration

 

Litany of Campaign staff, Cabinet members, Lawyers for Trump and personal businesses which have found themselves in legal trouble

 

Five Trump Cabinet Officials Were Referred to Federal Prosecutors but not prosecuted under Trump’s LAWLESS administration

 

Republicans, Trump and his cronies plot criminal plans of Revenge, Retribution & Imprisonment of Political Opponents, violating Trump’s Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens Rights.

 

GOP Culture of Corruption

 

The Corruption of the Republican Party

The GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.

Per the above article; “Why has the Republican Party become so thoroughly corrupt? The reason is historical—it goes back many decades—and, in a way, philosophical. The party is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start”.

“The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means. Political corruption usually trails financial scandals in its wake—the foam is scummy with self-dealing—but it’s far more dangerous than graft. There are legal remedies for Duncan Hunter, a representative from California, who will stand trial next year for using campaign funds to pay for family luxuries.* But there’s no obvious remedy for what the state legislatures of Wisconsin and Michigan, following the example of North Carolina in 2016, are now doing”.

“Republican majorities are rushing to pass laws that strip away the legitimate powers of newly elected Democratic governors while defeated or outgoing Republican incumbents are still around to sign the bills. Even if the courts overturn some of these power grabs, as they have in North Carolina, Republicans will remain securely entrenched in the legislative majority through their own hyper-gerrymandering—in Wisconsin last month, 54 percent of the total votes cast for major-party candidates gave Democrats just 36 of 99 assembly seats—so they will go on passing laws to thwart election results. Nothing can stop these abuses short of an electoral landslide. In Wisconsin, a purple state, that means close to 60 percent of the total vote”.

The fact that no plausible election outcome can check the abuse of power is what makes political corruption so dangerous. It strikes at the heart of democracy. It destroys the compact between the people and the government. In rendering voters voiceless, it pushes everyone closer to the use of undemocratic means.

“Today’s Republican Party has cornered itself with a base of ever older, whiter, more male, more rural, more conservative voters. Demography can take a long time to change—longer than in progressives’ dreams—but it isn’t on the Republicans’ side. They could have tried to expand; instead, they’ve hardened and walled themselves off. This is why, while voter fraud knows no party, only the Republican Party wildly overstates the risk so that it can pass laws (including right now in Wisconsin, with a bill that reduces early voting) to limit the franchise in ways that have a disparate partisan impact. This is why, when some Democrats in the New Jersey legislature proposed to enshrine gerrymandering in the state constitution, other Democrats, in New Jersey and around the country, objected”.

“Taking away democratic rights—extreme gerrymandering; blocking an elected president from nominating a Supreme Court justice; selectively paring voting rolls and polling places; creating spurious anti-fraud commissions; misusing the census to undercount the opposition; calling lame-duck legislative sessions to pass laws against the will of the voters—is the Republican Party’s main political strategy, and will be for years to come”.

Full article at; theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/

 

Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss: ‘Never’ seen a President who insulted our legal system and rule of law in public

 

Republican: ‘Staggering’ GOP ‘cowardice’ enables Trump

Fmr. George W. Bush speechwriter and Washington Post opinion writer Michael Gerson says “the cowardice among Republicans” is causing a backlash across the country.

 

Numerous mental health professionals claim Trump is a Malignant Narcissist. American Psychologist, Dr. John Gartner stated; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump”. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies”.

No normal person would lie with impunity like Trump has (over 30,000 times while President), refuse to admit he lost the election, claim he won after he lost, then instigate a coup and insurrection to overturn the election after he lost.

The American people should not have to live in fear of a Wannabe Dictator Lunatic becoming President.

Trump has proven to be a lawless pathological liar, narcissistic psychopath and a clear & present danger which the RNC is unleashing onto the American public. He violated his Oath of Office in 2020 by pressuring Georgia Election officials to ‘find more votes’ and incited an insurrection to overturn / steal the 2020 election.

The RNC allowing Trump to be a candidate on their ticket makes them culpable by helping / enabling him to become President, when they are well aware of his threats. Therefore, the RNC & Trump should be held liable and sued to pay for moving expenses and relocation costs for every American citizen who wants to leave if he becomes President.

 

Republicans knew Trump was unfit to be President, yet all have caved, kowtowed and supported him, putting their own political careers over doing what’s best for our country

Republicans such as Marco Rubio who is today calling the Trump Guilty Verdict a ‘complete travesty‘, in 2016 called Trump a ‘Con Artist‘ who’s ‘been exploiting working Americans for 40 years’. Ted Cruz called Trump a ‘Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth’ & ‘a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen’. Rand Paul; ‘Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag’ & ‘my concern is that he would grab up that power and treat the country as sort of his bully fiefdom‘. Nikki Haley; ‘Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten’. Lindsey Graham; ‘he’s a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot’ & I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office. Kellyanne Conway; ‘he says he’s for the little guy but he’s actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy’. Mike Pompeo; ‘Donald Trump the other day said that it quote if he tells a soldier to commit a war crime the soldier will just do it’. Glenn Beck; ‘I don’t think Donald Trump has has even read the constitution & knows what’s in the constitution’. Rick Perry; ‘a toxic mix of demagoguery and mean spiritedness and nonsense’ and Susan Collins; ‘I just cannot support Donald Trump’.

ALL of these UNPRINCIPLED, COWARDLY REPUBLICANS have put Trump, their Party and their own PERSONAL political careers above decency, our Constitution and our Country.

Holding Trump accountable isn’t about POLITICS or ‘ELECTION INTERFERENCE’… it’s about upholding the RULE OF LAW.

 

REPUBLICANS PUT TRUMP ABOVE THE RULE OF LAW

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Republicans prove they’re lawless by putting their political careers over the Rule of Law, claiming Trump is ‘innocent’ & calling the Hush Money Trial a illegitimate “sham”.

 

Republicans engage in ‘mob-style’ push to fall behind Trump after guilty verdict

“The lesson they learned is if you enforce this totalitarian unanimity, you can keep chugging along. Because they will do this no matter what he does, and no matter how bad it gets,” says Chris Hayes on Republicans banding together to support Trump after his guilty verdict.

 

REPUBLICANS disparaging Court Proceedings in New York, in which TRUMP is being held accountable for paying Hush Money to keep the American people in the dark about his adulterous affairs to influence the outcome of the 2016 election is further proof… REPUBLICANS ARE REPREHENSIBLE and LAWLESS

 

Trump Announces at Court That He’s Directing His Bootlickers to Violate the Gag Order for Him

Jesse talks about the continuing effort to violate the gag order and attempt to interfere with Donald Trump’s criminal trial

 

Republicans Prove They’re Lawless & Enemies of Democracy by Attacking the Nation’s Justice System

 

Protesters shout over & drown out Republican Trump sycophants outside the NYC Hush Money Trial Courthouse

 

MAGA loyalists trash talk judge’s daughter, defying gag order for Trump

Trump has apparently mobilized his staunchest MAGA loyalists in a brazen attempt to flout the judge’s gag order on his behalf, a desperate move, many say, as his criminal trial for allegedly engaging in a hush money scheme edges towards a verdict.

 

Bible-loving Mike Johnson attends Trump ‘porn star mistress’ trial

Rep. Jamie Raskin on Republicans flocking to Trump’s trial: “I think it’s a good thing that they are identifying themselves, the people who have completely allowed Donald Trump to devour their critical thinking skills and their political and moral independence.”

 

House GOP ‘pick me’ caucus shows up to support Trump in hush money trial

Miles Taylor, David Jolly, and Basil Smikle join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the most hard right Republican members of congress coming to the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump is standing trial to show loyalty to the leader of their party which has turned into a cult.

 

Speaker Mike Johnson assails Trump’s felony trial in remarkable visit outside courthouse

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is assailing the hush money trial case against Donald Trump as a “sham,” the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court and attack the U.S. justice system.

Per the article above: “U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president’s claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice.

It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy.

Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court system “corrupt.”

The speaker is leading a growing list of Republican lawmakers who are criticizing the American judicial system as they rally to Trump’s side, appearing at the courthouse to defend the party’s presumptive presidential nominee”.

 

Trump Sycophants Trash Court Proceeding

Lawless Republican Sycophants seeking Trump’s VP position trash Hush Money Trial Court Proceedings

 

‘The hypocrisy is so amazing’: Joe calls out JD Vance flocking to NYC to support Trump

Republican Sens. JD Vance and Tommy Tuberville have both flocked to New York City to show support for former President Trump during his criminal hush money trial.

 

Trump mouthpieces attacked witnesses and the judge’s daughter in his NY criminal trial.

 

Republicans are responsible for mass shootings and deaths since 2004 because President George W. Bush let the Assault Weapons Ban expire in 2004. Republicans have refused since then to allow it to be renewed.

Under the 1994 Clinton Administration Assault Weapons Ban, the maximum capacity of a magazine was set at 10 rounds. AR-15s were one of 18 semiautomatic weapons banned under the 1994 law that expired in 2004 during the Republican George W. Bush administration despite broad public support and a drop in gun fatalities.

Since then, killers have used semiautomatics to target victims en masse at Virginia Tech in 2007; the Fort Hood military base in 2009; the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012; a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012; Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT in 2012, the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2016, the 2017 Las Vegas shooting which left 58 people dead, the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fl in which 17 students died, mass shooting on March 22, 2021 at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, CO in which 10 people were killed, May 14, 2022 a gunman shot 13 people killing 10 at a grocery store in Buffalo and May 24, 2022 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde TX which left 21 people dead and 17 more injured.

 

America on track for record year in mass shootings

 

 

Mass murder has become a regular occurrence in red states like Texas, as Republicans apparently keep trying to gaslight us about how the guns somehow have nothing to do with it.

 

Red Republican States respond to shootings by taking away restrictions and passing laws making it easier to get more guns

 

NBA Coach Gregg Popovich calls out Republicans for Inaction on Gun Reform

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich on Sunday plead for gun control before his team’s before final regular season game in Dallas.

 

Inside the NRA’s impact on Republican politics

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins breaks down the ways the National Rifle Association’s longtime chief, Wayne LaPierre, influenced Republican politics over his long tenure.

 

 

 

When the 2nd amendment was written, muskets were the “arms” the writers of the constitution were referring to, not semi-automatic weapons with a hundred rounds of ammunition

 

Deadly start to 2023 as mass shootings pervade nation

 

REPUBLICANS GLORIFY & PRAISE “Weapons of Death”

 

Republicans believe any weapon you can think of should be legal so they can overthrow a ‘Tyrannical Government’ if necessary.

 

Club Q Shooting Survivor ‘Disgusted’ Over Republicans ‘Gun Reform Inaction’

A Club Q shooting survivor testified in front of the House Oversight Committee about the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ violence in the U.S

 

Republican Senator Brags About Stonewalling Gun Control While Multiple Mass Shootings Are Happening

During a day in which 60 shootings occurred, including multiple mass shootings, Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas tweeted that gun control was “not gonna happen.” He and his Party are going to do everything they can to block gun control legislation that the majority of Americans support, all because they love their money from the gun industry.

 

Republicans don’t care that a clear majority of Americans has supported banning Assault Weapons for years. They’ve put their allegiance to the NRA above doing what the American people want. This is more proof that Republicans don’t believe in Democracy or representative government. Similar to Fascist Authoritarian Dictator Regimes, it’s about cramming what they want down their subjects throats.

Since Republicans have consistently refused to make assault weapons illegal, refused to pass legislation which demands tests & minimum requirements for gun / weapons ownership, Republicans are responsible for ALL mass shootings in the United States in which assault weapons were used.

People have to get a license to drive a car… they also should be required to pass some kind of tests to own a gun.

 

REPUBLICAN Trump signed law to help Mentally Ill Get Guns

Rachel Maddow points out the irony of Donald Trump’s remarks that the Las Vegas shooter was “sick and demented” when one of Trump’s only legislative accomplishments was a law to make it easier for the mentally ill to get guns.

 

NRA’s ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Theory Failed In Real Time In Uvalde

In addition to the police response being an unfathomable failure, it is also proof that the ‘good guy with a gun’ theory doesn’t work.

 

Texas rampage is among deadliest school shootings in U.S. history

In 2020, there were more than 19,000 gun-related homicides in the U.S., according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s an average of 53 per day. There have been 213 mass shootings so far this year. The death toll in school mass shootings is also startling — since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, 77 students have been killed.

 

 

 

Eric Swalwell SHREDS Republicans in SPEECH OF THE YEAR over inaction after Uvalde. Republicans are truly DESPICABLE and responsible for everything which is wrong in our country.

 

REPUBLICANS Have No Answer to Eric Swalwell’s Simple Question!

Jesse talks about Eric Swalwell’s simple question to Republican members of his committee, including Jim Jordan and Louie Gohmert. He asked, “Are you here for our kids, or are you here for the killers?”

 

U.S. Gun Culture Wasn’t Always Like This

 

A Political Party That Doesn’t Care If You Get Shot

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, the GOP continues to push the idea that liberal policy is the culprit for gun violence in America. Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, joins Katie Phang to discuss.

 

Lawrence: Republicans Don’t Want You To Know The Truth About TX School Massacre

For years, Republicans have argued that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the mass murder of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, has again proven that Republican plan will never work.

 

Being Murdered In School Is A Uniquely American Way Of Death

May 24, 2022 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers the tragic news of yet another mass shooting in an American school, this time an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and looks back at the history at this uniquely American way of death.

 

Lawrence: GOP Position Is Kids Have To Die Because The Constitution Says So

Texas Democratic candidate for Governor Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference in Uvalde, Texas, being chaired by his political rival, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott, telling Abbott the Uvalde shooting was “totally predictable.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers that and how the Republican solution to school shootings didn’t work in Uvalde, Texas.

 

Florida student arrested for plotting school shooting

The Daytona Beach Police Department said that they have arrested 19-year-old John Hagins, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student, for plotting to shoot up the school on the final day before winter break. Dec 9, 2021

 

A 15-year-old sophomore from Oxford High School has been charged in connection with a shooting inside the school that left 4 students dead and 7 injured. Dec 1, 2021

 

Manslaughter charges filed against parents of accused killer in Michigan school shooting; authorities search for couple

Hours after a prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of the suspect in the Oxford High School shooting, authorities claimed they appeared to be fleeing from authorities.

Jennifer and James Crumbley were each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter after the prosecutor said they bought the firearm for their son as a Christmas gift. Their 15-year-old son, Ethan, is accused of fatally shooting four students and injuring seven others at Oxford High School on Tuesday.

 

Sen. Chris Murphy on school shooting in Michigan that left 3 dead, and at least 8 injured: “I’m at my wits end about why Republicans’ concern for life seems so limited when the choices we could make to try to protect our kids are so obvious, are so politically popular, are so possible.”

 

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy Makes Passionate Case For Gun Control Following Oxford High School Shooting In Michigan

 

Mass Shootings In The U.S.

 

Mass shooting at grocery store in Boulder, Colorado

Colorado police arrested a person of interest after a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder. Police confirmed 10 people were killed, including an officer.

 

Mass shootings in the US: A timeline

Here’s a timeline of the other tragic, deadly mass killings in the United States from Pulse to the University of Texas clock tower massacre

 

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in which 20 children were massacred with a semi-automatic weapon demonstrates the need for legislation restricting such weapons.

 

UCSB Victim’s Dad: ‘My Kid Died’ Because Nobody Acted After Sandy Hook

 

How A Handgun Is Different To An AR-15

Stephanie Ruhle takes a look at what teachers would be up against, if they were armed with a handgun and confronted with an AR-15. MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Malcolm Nance explains just how outgunned these teachers would be.

 

As shown in the above video, a bullet fired from a AR-15 travels at speeds of over 2,182 miles per hour.

 

AR-15: The Gun Behind So Many Mass Shootings

The AR-15 assault rifle is commonly used in mass shootings in the United States. Here’s a closer look at likely reasons why.

 

Proof That AR-15s Are Weapons Of War

The death toll from the shooting in Colorado may be unusual in most countries, but it’s common in the U.S. because the alleged killer used an “AR-15 style rifle,” a weapon explicitly meant for going on offense and not defense. In this special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber traces the origins of the weapon and its intended use, how civilians came about using it in increasing numbers, and what makes it so deadly. This is an excerpt from a longer special report. Aired on 03/23/2021.

 

Two days before the deadly riots at the Capitol, the NRA sent a letter to its members claiming that under the Biden administration, armed government agents would “storm your house, take your guns and haul you to prison.”

The LIE that the NRA and Republicans continue to peddle that… “Democrats want to take your guns away” is TOTAL BS!

They use this ridiculous lie to make sure low-information people ALWAYS vote for Republicans, who want to take away their Healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while giving Tax Breaks to the Rich.

Amazing how almost half of the people in this country are so stupid that they consistently vote for Republicans… who consistently do NOTHING for them.

 

Per an article at; wpr.org/survey-only-3-percent-americans-own-half-guns-us;

“Only 3 Percent Of Americans Own Half The Guns In US. The percentage of Americans who own guns decreased from 25 percent to 22 percent, according to the report. It also found about 78 percent of Americans don’t own guns, and 19 percent of adults in the U.S. own the remaining half of firearms in the country.

The Guardian newspaper referred to the 3 percent group as “super-owners” and said they own an average of 17 guns each”.

A small portion of the population who believe there should be NO regulations are bullying and forcing their radical demands of “no regulations” down the throats of the majority.

 

83 Percent of Americans support background checks on people purchasing guns and limiting access to semi-automatic weapons. The NRA and Republicans are doing everything possible to thwart the will of the American people.

 

GOP, Fox News Lie About Gun Control After Boulder, Atlanta Shootings

Seth takes a closer look at Republicans, the gun lobby and Fox News once again lying and making ridiculous excuses for why they oppose wildly popular gun safety measures after two horrific shootings in the span of less than a week.

 

Why Arming Teachers Is A Fantasy War Game

Today at a listening session with school shooting survivors and family of victims at the White House, President Donald Trump suggested arming school personnel with handguns. Lawrence O’Donnell breaks down why this an unrealistic solution to school shootings.

 

 

 

Trump signed law to help Mentally Ill Get Guns

Rachel Maddow points out the irony of Donald Trump’s remarks that the Las Vegas shooter was “sick and demented” when one of Trump’s first legislative accomplishments was a law to make it easier for the mentally ill to get guns.

 

Texas Loosening Gun Laws Weeks After Mass Shooting

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended new gun laws that ease restrictions on gun owners in that state, hours after the laws went into effect and hours after a gunman shot at least 21 people, killing seven, in and around Odessa, Texas.

The new laws loosen restrictions on gun ownership and use in schools, foster homes, apartment buildings, and houses of worship.

 

Republican Tells THE TRUTH About Gun Control

Republicans are owned by the NRA and gun lobbies. Although over half of Americans want Assault Weapons banned and enhanced background checks to stop mentally ill people from getting guns, Republicans don’t care and will continue to do nothing. The only solutions is to vote Republicans out of office.

 

90% of Americans and 92% of gun owners want gun reform, but the NRA has found clever ways to block that in Washington.

 

Far-right militias and domestic terrorism in America

 

As shown, Republican congressmen are bought & paid for by the NRA.

 

The NRA is also responsible because they also do not want any restrictions on the sale / purchase of assault weapons and have used their lobbying power to make sure Republicans don’t support assault weapons bans.

 

Florida school shooting: Details emerge in timeline, what we know about suspect

 

Florida student to NRA and Trump: ‘We call BS’

Emma Gonzalez, a student at the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 people were left dead after a mass shooting, calls out President Trump and the NRA by name at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

Republican Florida lawmakers refuse to consider assault weapons ban despite call for tougher gun control laws

 

President Obama Speaks on Common-Sense Measures to Reduce Gun Violence

 

Parkland Shooting Survivor Sam Zeif, who lost a close friend three years ago in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, joins MSNBC’s Brian Williams to discuss the mass shooting in a Colorado supermarket

 

Donald Trump Jr. Blames Victims Of School Shooting

 

Bill Moyers calls out and exposes the NRA

 

 

Title from Youtube: “NRA Should Be Classified As A Terrorist Organization”

 

GUNS RUIN LIVES

Gun advocates love to claim guns save lives and are necessary for self protection. Here’s just a few examples of how guns ruined lives and how if the shooters didn’t have a gun, none of these events would have happened…

Columbine High School Massacre – click here to read

Colorado Theater Shooting– click here to read

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting – click here to read

Florida man gets life in prison for killing teen over loud music – click here to read

Pennsylvania Road-rage killing after lane merge – click here to read

The most notable examples above of killings which could have been avoided are the Pennsylvania road-rage killing and Killing teen over loud music. These were rage and out-of-control temper cases. If the shooters hadn’t had a gun these events wouldn’t have happened. Their having a gun caused their lives & their families, the people they shot and their families to be destroyed.

As shown in the above examples, not everyone is emotionally stable enough to own deadly weapons. People have to get a license to drive a car… they also should be required to pass some kind of tests to own a gun. Also, military grade weapons which can rapid fire over 20 rounds of ammo should not be allowed to be owned by Average Joe citizens.

Republicans do not care that 80% of Americans want Gun Control legislation to be passed.

 

Robert Reich connects the dots to expose Republicans War on the Poor and Working Families including their opposition to minimum wage, unemployment insurance, food stamps and more.

 

Republicans are constantly demonizing the poor by claiming their lazy and don’t work. Millions of people who are poor work full time in low paying jobs, such as those in the food service industry at places like McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc. Just because these jobs are low paying doesn’t mean they are not important. We couldn’t function as a society if no one was willing to work these jobs.

 

 

REPUBLICAN Ron DeSantis LOWERS Minimum Wage In Florida

 

The above video exposes how Republicans are hypocrites who engage in, and condone Socialism for the Rich in the form of corporate bails-outs, tax payer funded sports stadiums, farm subsidies (22 billion in 2019 when Trump was President), but harsh “pull yourself by up by your own bootstraps” Capitalism for everyone else.

 

 

Republicans are demanding stricter work requirements in the debt ceiling fight, which also include GOP demands for cuts targeting the poor. “You’re taking people off of SNAP, off of food stamps, and Medicaid,” MSNBC’s Ali Velhi tells Joy Reid. “What kind of country is looking to have fewer people have enough.”

 

Fox Guest Compares Poor People To Dogs Who Are Only Obedient When They’re Hungry

A Fox News guest this past week may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag when he said that poor people have it too good by receiving extended unemployment benefits, then drew a parallel to military dogs who are only obedient to commands when they are hungry. This is what the Right wants for America – a country so starving and desperate that they will do anything their masters ask them to do.

 

House Republicans tried to pass H.R. 5003, misleadingly titled “Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016”, a bill which would inevitably take free school lunches away from poor schools and children.

The bill was introduced by Indiana Republican Todd Rokita and would have affected up to 50,000 students just in his home state alone.

 

REPUBLICAN Mitch McConnell Blocks Program To Give Poor Students Free School Lunches

Mitch McConnell and his Republican followers in the Senate are currently blocking an extension of a federal waiver program that would allow more children to receive free school meals. This comes as nearly half of the population of McConnell’s own state, Kentucky, would benefit from the legislation. This is pure evil coming from Republicans, as they have no other motivations than wanting people to hurt. Mar 9, 2022

 

Republicans voted to cut 39 Billion Dollars from the Food Stamp program, but have no problem giving tax breaks to the wealthy.

 

Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott wants to Tax the Poor plus eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as shown in the above interview with FOX NEWS John Roberts

 

Republicans Tax Hike On Poor People Exposed

Republican Senator Rick Scott’s “agenda” for the Republican Party is blowing up in their faces, and now the Party is in full panic mode as it has been revealed that Scott’s plan would raise taxes on the bottom 40% of income earners by about $1,000 per year. Running on a platform of raising taxes on the most vulnerable citizens is never a winning strategy, but Scott thought that he knew better than Mitch McConnell and his arrogance could sink his Party in November. Mar 9, 2022

 

Rick Scott Forced To Lie About His Tax Plan After It Blows Up In His Face

Republican Senator Rick Scott is now trying to lie his way out of his plan to raise taxes on low income Americans, and he’s claiming that this was never part of his plan. However, it is clear as day in the plan as Scott prepared it, and no amount of creative talking and linguistic gymnastics are going to be able to change the fact that this is what he wanted to do.

 

Avlon calls out GOP senator for denial on Fox

Rick Scott Lies to Sean Hannity About Tax Hikes In His Plan. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) proposed a plan to raise income taxes on Americans who don’t pay them currently, and then denied it in an interview on Fox.

 

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a typical Republican who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.

 

Republicans in the US Senate voted to cut funding from Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund their 2 TRILLION tax cuts for the rich. They are taking away healthcare from the needy in order to give more money to the greedy.

 

A new study shows that despite the makers vs. takers rhetoric pushed by many Republicans, red states are the most dependent on government programs.

 

Republicans Don’t Care about the Poor

 

Paul Ryan’s attitude about poor people is typical of most Republicans. His idea of helping the poor is to completely eliminate food stamps, social security, medicare and medicaid.

Paul Ryan frequently talks about “taker & makers”. If anyone is a “taker”, it’s Paul Ryan and Republican politicians who’s been on the public dole their entire life and does nothing to help average Joe Americans.

 

Paul Ryan has been dreaming about cutting Medicaid Since College

 

REPUBLICAN Paul Ryan stated; “The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand .” That’s freshly minted GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan talking — statements he would eventually recant — at a party celebrating what would have been the prolific author’s 100th birthday…”. Did Rand, a libertarian darling, idolize serial killer Walter Edward Hickman?

 

Paul Ryan’s anti-poverty agenda is a SHAM. His idea of helping the poor is to completely eliminate food stamps, social security, medicare and medicaid.

ALL Republicans are in principle against government programs and Paul Ryan is no different. They vilify government programs by calling them “socialism” and “communism”.

 

GOP gets ‘down the block’ tough

The Nation’s John Nichols and Sen. Jeff Merkley join to discuss the GOP’s new faux tough-guy attitude, and how it’s hurting countless Americans.

 

Republicans voted to cut 39 Billion Dollars from the Food Stamp program, but have no problem giving tax breaks to the wealthy.

 

Congress dithers while Americans go hungry

Millions of Americans struggle to put food on the table while Congress struggles to negotiate a farm bill linked to SNAP

 

Food stamp cuts to create ‘hunger cliff’

About 47 million poor people are about to have less to eat — and the worst may still be coming.

 

Trump Wants To Replace Food Stamps With Food Boxes

 

Rep. Jack Kingston, who is running in Georgia’s senate primary, attacked the poor in a recent conversation with supporters.

 

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT ADMITTED HE WASN’T CONCERNED ABOUT THE POOR

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said that he’s “not concerned about the very poor,” citing the social safety net in place for that segment of the populace and adding that he’s focused on the middle class”.

 

Mitt Romney admits he is not concerned about the poor — not long after he tried to convince a crowd he was.

 

This chart shows where all of the money is going. There would be plenty of money for Healthcare and to help the Poor if so much wasn’t being wasted on the military.

 

Since 2001, the United States has been spending 900 Million a week in Afghanistan. Republicans has no problem spending trillions on the military, bombs and wars, but they want to cut programs like food stamps, medicare, social security, etc which benefits regular Americans and the poor.

 

Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies: Food Stamps Stealing ‘Other People’s Money – Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) agitated against food aid for poor Americans included in the Farm Bill during last week’s House Agricultural Committee debate, accusing the government of stealing “other people’s money.” Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has already been decimated in both the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill, cutting off nearly 2 million working families, children, and seniors from food assistance.

Fincher invoked the Bible in his defense of the devastating cuts, quoting, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” Read the whole story here

Congressman Quotes Jesus In Bid To Gut Food Stamps

While Republican Stephen Fincher cites chapter and verse to prove that it is immoral for out of work folks to mooch off government largesse, he fails to mention that his own fingers have been observed in the public till.

 

Farm Subsidy Recipients Who Voted to Cut Food Stamps

http://www.alternet.org/10-farm-subsidy-recipients-who-voted-cut-food-stamps

GOP’s definition of freedom means freedom from Social Security and affordable Health Care for most families and even freedom from necessary food-assistance benefits for about 170,000 veterans.

 

Republicans Take Hypocritical Stance In Food Stamp Debate

House Agriculture Committee Republicans who vocally supported billions in cuts to federal food assistance are big-time recipients of government help in the form of farm subsidies.

Reps. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) both cited the Bible last week to argue that while individual Christians have a responsibility to feed the poor, the federal government does not.

The Fincher That Stole Food Stamps

The second most heavily subsidized farmer in Congress said Washington should not “steal” from taxpayers to support food assistance like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — better known as food stamps.

Republicans are for “welfare for the Wealthy” and they want to continue spending trillions on the military. We should cut military spending in half and in doing so there would enough money to take care of All Americans, including the homeless.

Cutting assistance to the poor is in direct opposition to Christ’s teachings.

Matthew 25:40 says “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”.

Matthew 25:31-46 says “For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’’

Republicans constantly site the bible to rationalize their every day actions, but are hypocrites by doing everything possible to take away assistance to the poor.

Cutting assistance to the poor is in direct violation of Christ’s teachings. Republican Christian Religious Fanatics are some of the biggest hypocrites in the world.

Republicans are Enemies Of the Poor and Middle Class

If you make less that $40,000 a year you would be crazy to vote for Republicans. Like Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said” I’m not concerned about the poor”.

Republicans REFUSE to increase taxes on the rich but want to increase taxes on the poor. There are many corporations which pays no taxes at all and Republicans refuse to do anything about it. Republicans are protectors of the rich and do not care about the middle class and the poor.

If you have any low income republican friends, try to make them understand they are being used and they need to STOP voting for republicans.

Republicans want to take away Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Don’t let them! ALL Republicans should be fired

 

REPUBLICANS are passing Laws banning books, limiting what Teachers can Teach and what can be discussed in classrooms with huge fines of up to $10,000 for violations. Republicans want BIG GOVERNMENT controlling every aspect of people’s lives.

 

 

REPUBLICAN’S WAR on Teachers

 

This short video shows how oppressive and unbearable life could become unless REPUBLICANS are STOPPED by VOTING THEM OUT.

 

 

Teachers Pull Books To Avoid Felony Prosecution From DeSantis Law

Teachers are being told to withhold ALL of their classroom library books until they can be individually reviewed for certification in the wake of a new law, House Bill 1467, which can result in a third-degree felony if violated.

 

Indoctrination by cartoon? DeSantis’ latest attack on ‘woke schools.’

Ron DeSantis says Florida schools should be about “education over indoctrination.” So why is his state now bringing in lessons on race and social justice from a right-wing group whose leader brags about indoctrinating kids? Mehdi breaks down the hypocrisy behind DeSantis’ war on ‘woke’ schools.

 

‘Outrageous’: Don Lemon reacts to Florida book law championed by DeSantis

 

Embattled Florida parents to America: You’re next if DeSantis wins!

Alex Wagner looks at the agenda Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has laid out for his state and his disingenuous pushback on criticism of his cultural crusade as parents of students at New College of Florida caution the rest of America that if DeSantis succeeds in making an example of their school, Republicans everywhere will try to follow suit.

 

Republican’s War on Woke is a war against young people… an attack on how they think, exist, speak and especially how they understand the world they live in.

 

Ken Burns Compares DeSantis Bills to ‘Soviet System’ on CNN: ‘The Way the Nazis Would Build a Potemkin Village’

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joined CNN on Tuesday and accused Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of creating a Soviet-like system through his bills targeting materials available in public schools. DeSantis has been focused on introducing legislation specifically aimed at explicit and “woke” materials in schools. His efforts have earned major pushback as critics argue new strict guidelines can be used to target LGBTQ and Black history-related content. House Bill 999 would give more power to a university board of trustees over curriculum being taught and essentially ban controversial curriculum like Critical Race Theory. [source: mediaite.com/tv/ken-burns-compares-desantis-bills-to-soviet-system-on-cnn-the-way-the-nazis-would-build-a-potemkin-village]

 

DeSantis & Florida Republicans are following in the footsteps of Autocrat Dictator of Hungary Viktor Orban by taking control of Education

 

Right Wingers around the world are systematically destroying Democracy, implementing One Party Rule with rigged elections, take-over of the News Media, Judiciary and take-over of Education, similar to what DeSantis and Republicans are doing in Florida.

 

Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere. Republicans are following the same playbook so it could happen here unless they are STOPPED.

 

Outrageous’: Florida teacher rips DeSantis’ censorship, criminal threats

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing a new law forcing teachers to remove books from classrooms that are not deemed “appropriate.” So-called “Woke Busters” are joining DeSantis’ effort and forcing libraries and schools to remove “offensive” books. Florida public school teacher Andrea Phillips joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber, calling the law “outrageous,” and adding students “don’t have books to read.”

 

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten reacts to former REPUBLICAN Secretary of State Mike Pompeo labeling her as the the world’s ‘most dangerous person’.

 

Radical Right Wing REPUBLICAN Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Installs Regressive Education Board Members determined to Suppress and Re-Write History

 

Conservative Group Pushes To Shift Public Schools To Christian Nationalist Principles

Kathryn Joyce, investigative reporter at Salon, talks with Alex Wagner about the role of Hillsdale College at the center of the conservative effort to make education a political battlefield with initiatives like the “Stop Woke Act” in Florida to align civic and history curricula with right-wing Christian perspectives. Aug 20, 2022

 

Republicans admitting they want a dictatorship and want to eliminate Democracy

 

New Florida Teacher Training Aims To Indoctrinate Educators With Radical Right Wing Ideology

 

Florida Teachers Afraid, Confused As REPUBLICAN DeSantis Politicizes Curriculum

Alex Wagner travels to Florida to talk with Don Falls, a teacher who has joined a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis’ “Stop Woke Act” that has put teachers in fear of being punish for teaching factual history, and Jennifer Jenkins, a school board member who has personally experienced the threats and intimidation by Republican activists using culture war excuses as cover for a political power grab.

 

New Florida teacher training downplays role of slavery in U.S. history

Alex Wagner looks at how Florida teachers are being trained to teach the history of slavery in the United States. Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, joins to talk about Florida’s emphasis on descent-based slavery as a way of minimizing the slave trade.

 

Students say DeSantis’ African-American studies ban ‘symbolizes… deep hatred’

 

REPUBLICAN DeSantis Imposes Extreme Culture War Framing On Nuanced U.S. Civics

Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, talks with Alex Wagner about the political utility for Ron DeSantis of bringing polarizing culture war themes to the discussion of complicated American history and civics.

 

REPUBLICAN DeSantis culture war on U.S. history threatens to backfire on Florida higher education

Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, talks with Alex Wagner about how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ efforts to erase Black history in the United States by intimidating librarians, teachers, school boards and universities risks pushing Florida and its Southern associations back into the past and undercutting the ability of Southern schools to draw competent, reputable faculty.

 

Professor slams DeSantis for quashing Black history education

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to control the type of education that Florida students can receive, most recently rejecting an advanced placement course in African-American studies, claiming it was “contrary to Florida law” and “significantly lacking educational value.” The law he is referring to seems to be the “Stop Woke Act” that basically gives him the power to downplay the true racial history of America. This has impacted many educators, but there are some in the state who refuse to back down. Dr. Marvin Dunn, one of the preeminent historians in Florida, is saying “Bring it on.”

 

Schools Are Fighting Back Hard Against REPUBLICAN Attacks

Republicans have spent the past few years attacking public education – and teachers, especially – as part of their ongoing assault on the LGBTQ+ community. And school districts have finally had enough, and they are working tirelessly to fight back against the onslaught of attacks, lies, and conspiracy theories that Republicans are spreading about our school systems

 

REPUBLICANS in Oklahoma are taking the suppression of education to a whole new level, with new legislation that would allow teachers to be fined $10,000 for teaching anything that goes against Christian beliefs, which would include basic biology lessons. It would also be illegal for teachers to raise money from outside sources to pay the fines, and they would also likely be fired for offenses – and each individual student’s families could sue for $10,000. This is not just obscene, it is an attack on public education and teachers.

 

REPUBLICAN State Bills To Limit What Teachers Can Say

Republicans across the country have introduced 137 pieces of legislation at the state level trying to limit what teachers are legally allowed to teach their students. Discussions about race, gender, and sexual orientation are being outlawed in areas where Republicans have the numbers to pass the legislation. This is going to set our education system back generations, and experts believe it will soon lead to a mass exodus of teachers all over America.

 

REPUBLICANS Wants to Regulate What You Can Say in Classrooms

 

Teacher reacts to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ policy

Cory Bernaert, an openly gay kindergarten teacher in Florida, reacts to what critics call Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which goes into effect today.

 

Florida REPUBLICAN Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring Colleges To Survey Student, Faculty Beliefs

 

‘Whitewashing History’: Tennessee GOP Wants To Ban Lessons On Systemic Racism

“This fight against teaching America’s racist past has now been integrated into the broader REPUBLICAN cancel culture, wokeness, moral panic being stoked,” says Chris Hayes on GOP state reps trying to ban critical race theory in schools across the U.S.

 

Tennessee REPUBLICANS Draft Bill To ARREST Teachers For Teaching

Republicans in Tennessee have taken the assault on teachers to another level by backing legislation that would make it a criminal offense for teachers to teach “ban books.” The books would designated by the state (Republicans) and any teacher that is caught teaching them would be hit with a misdemeanor charge for first offense, which also carries a penalty of up to $50,000. The attack on education is getting extreme, and not enough people are paying attention, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins points out.

 

Florida is BANNING MATH BOOKS & Blaming it on Critical Race Theory!

Jesse talks about the latest insanity coming out of Florida, where they are banning DOZENS and DOZENS of math textbooks because “they incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT.” Except for the fact that in their own press release, they don’t give a single example.

 

Banning Books and Ideas isn’t a Culture War, it’s Fascism!

 

Texas Students Push Back On School Book Ban:‘Stop The Censorship’

“These Texas students organized a backlash to the backlash, reasserting their right for open inquiry and critical thinking in their education.”

 

REPUBLICANS Pushing Bill To Ban Teaching History Of Slavery

As the GOP seeks to suppress classroom lessons about racism and slavery, parts of academia are aligning with their right-wing rhetoric. The University of North Carolina now drawing backlash after denying Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones a tenured position.

 

REPUBLICAN Bill Will Fine Teachers $10,000 for CONTRADICTING RELIGION

Jesse talks about an egregious bill being proposed in Oklahoma which seeks to fine teachers $10,000 for teaching things that go against religious texts, such as evolution, the big bang theory, LGBTQ issues, and others.

 

Tucker Carlson Explicitly Calls For Violence Against Teachers

Fox News has ramped up their violent rhetoric against teachers, and host Tucker Carlson became the first on the network to specifically call for violence against teachers. Carlson asked openly why children’s fathers weren’t going in and “thrashing” the teachers that he claims are imposing sexuality on students – a claim echoed by many Republicans without any evidence whatsoever.

 

Party Lawmakers Banning Books To Ease ‘White Discomfort’

REPUBLICAN lawmakers in 22 states have unveiled bills to limit teachings about race and sexuality in public schools. Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” have now joined the list of works banned by local school boards for so-called “objectionable” content.

 

REPUBLICANS War With Books And ‘Critical Race Theory’ In Schools

Former assistant U.S. attorney Maya Wiley and democratic strategist Basil Smikle on Republican efforts to ban books and limit what teachers can teach about racism and sexism.

 

A Look Inside The Math Textbooks Rejected By Florida

Florida refused to provide evidence for how exactly the math textbooks they rejected “indoctrinated” youth. So reporter Judd Legum tracked down the textbooks to find out what’s really inside.

 

Books Banned by FLORIDA REPUBLICANS Discussed in this video

 

Parents Organize To Fight Back Against GOP’s Classroom Culture War

GLSEN’s executive director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers and organizer Julie Collins join Jonathan Capehart to discuss how parents are strategizing and organizing against the GOP’s classroom culture war. Plus, a new analysis looks at the staggering numbers of abuse LGBTQ+ students face in Florida’s schools

 

Conservative Pastor Holds Actual Book Burning In Tennessee

A pro-Trump conservative pastor in Tennessee named Greg Locke held an actual book burning this week, where parents were encouraged to throw youg adult novels into the flames. It didn’t take long to go from book bannings to book burnings.

 

REPUBLICANS Banning & Burning Books

 

Book Burning and Literary Censorship Similar to 1930’s Nazi Germany

 

 

AOC SHREDS Republicans to their face over Book Banning which include Rosa Parks

 

Banning Books Stifles Curiosity, and Ultimately Imperils Society

In recent weeks, hundreds of books have either been challenged, barred, or face proposals to get pulled from schools, curricula, and libraries across the country. They’ve been deemed “controversial” for a variety of reasons. Some say they contain “objectionable language”, they’re “too sexually explicit”, or they fall falsely accused of being about Critical Race Theory. In some cases, the problem with these books is that their contents just might make a young reader or, more likely their parents, uncomfortable. There are a host of arguments made against the books – some are simply prudish, but several are clearly racist or homophobic or transphobic, and most of it is anti-intellectual: the same sort that gets us climate deniers and anti-vaxxers. Simply put, banning books is bad. It deprives people young and old of exposure to ideas, concepts, and world views that are not their own. It stifles curiosity. It perpetuates stereotypes. And when you dampen curiosity, you weaken our ability to think critically – to know when you are being fooled. Banning books is going to make us into a stupid society, vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation. We are less informed when our choices about the range of information we consume is arbitrarily limited. Sometimes it feels like there’s too much to fight for and it’s hard to win.

 

Teacher Resigns During Kansas School Board Meeting With Powerful Speech

 

Opinion: Fighting Fascism from Our Classrooms – The Educators Room

As the United States is gets closer and closer to outright fascism, classrooms represent crucial sites of resistance.

Per the above article: “American Authoritarianism Isn’t New”

“It’s important during this dark time to remember that banning books and threatening teachers isn’t new. Former high school history teacher, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, compiled an excellent critical review of McCarthyism for the Zinn Education Project. She reminds us of the long history of targeting anti-racist, queer, leftist, and anti-war organizers and educators.

When I read about the current anti-Critical Race Theory push in schools, I also think of educators more recently who risked their jobs in order to promote conversations about equity.

As we consider our strategies to push back against rising fascism today, we would do well to remember its historical roots in this country. In doing so, we can also find examples of educators who resisted. While silencing critical thought in American schools is not new, certain aspects of this moment feel uniquely dangerous.

Across the country, Republican-controlled states are passing laws that are limiting access to voting, gerrymandering districts, and changing the way votes are counted and certified. Without federal intervention, we will enter into a dismal new period in the United States. The same folks who want to ban books and anti-racist teaching will control our government at every level.
What Can Educators Do?

To fight fascism from your classroom, you can’t do it alone. In her dedication of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba shares wisdom from her father, “Everything worthwhile is done with others.” Practically every significant social change in history was accomplished through collective action. Joining a community means access to resources, wisdom, and support. And if something goes wrong, you won’t be alone.

As you fight fascism in your classroom, remember to do what you do best. When people disagree with your politics, they will try to attack your skill and expertise. Don’t let them. Come to your class prepared. Make space for student-led discussion and inquiry, but ground your teaching in facts. The Morningside Center offers ten guidelines for teaching about controversial topics.

Our job as educators has always been to help students make sense of the world. That way they make a difference in it. Students need to learn about the history and presence of racism in the United States. They also need an understanding of the Constitution, as well as fights over democracy that have taken place in the United States. Classrooms must be places where students learn this context. Only then can they comprehend and fight back against the rising threat of fascism”.

 

Anthony Crawford, Teacher
Millwood High School

“My name is Anthony Crawford. I’m a teacher in Oklahoma, and I’m also part of a group of educators and students represented by the ACLU in a lawsuit against the state’s law, HB 1775 – which severely restricts learning and talking about race and gender in the classroom.

You see, Oklahoma, where I live and teach, is one of nine states that passed classroom censorship bills last year that try to silence conversations about race and gender – bills that chill students’ and educators’ First Amendment right to talk about issues that impact our everyday lives.

State lawmakers and school boards across the country have also made moves to remove books by Black, LGBTQ, and other authors discussing race, gender, and sexuality from curriculums amidst the ongoing debate about teaching “critical race theory” in schools.

But this isn’t the first time America has tried to eradicate certain truths out of history books. Read my story in full here and you’ll get a bigger picture of what I’m talking about.

When I was a junior in high school, for instance, I was kicked out of AP History class just for asking when we were going to learn about Black history. It was Black History Month, Anthony.

Later, when I became a teacher, I made it my goal to equip my students with a curriculum that incorporates readings on race and gender – that gives them an accurate picture of history, that helps them understand what kind of society they live in, and how this reality came into being.

Some aspects of Black history can be hard to talk about, but learning about it builds students’ confidence and empowers them to take life into their own hands.

That’s also one of the reasons why I’ve chosen to defy HB 1775 by not altering my teaching – and why, again, I hope you’ll dive into my story on this urgent fight against censorship alongside the ACLU right now.

After all, the more of us there are who are informed and speaking out – the stronger we can be for our students and our right to learn.

Thanks for reading,

Anthony Crawford

(reprint from ALCU newsletter article)

 

 

 

 

REPUBLICANS have passed RADICAL “War On Women” Anti-Choice Laws which Bans Abortions after 6 weeks with NO EXCEPTION for Insest or Rape. FORCES a women to Carry and give Birth to a RAPIST CHILD (even if they’re 10 years old) and in Texas, empowers Anti-Abortion Vigilantes to sue anyone who assists a women seeking an abortion for $10,000.

 

Republicans Watching Your Daughter

 

 

 

Texas Republicans Anti-Choice Law Against Women’s Rights has turned the U.S. into a Gestapo Secret Police State by placing $10,000 Bounties on anyone who helps a Women get an Abortion

 

Texas Abortion Law ‘Turns Every Anti-Abortion Zealot Into A Bounty Hunter’

Rachel Maddow explains how Trump filed 3 seats in the Supreme Court with judges who voted to overturn Roe V. Wade, the bizarre rules of the new Texas anti-abortion law and how it will become the new template for Republican legislatures to effectively ban abortion in the United States by delegating vigilantes to hunt down women to target with lawsuits.

 

Republicans want to FORCE women to give birth while taking away Healthcare, Food & Financial Assistance to those who can’t afford to care for the babies they want to force women to have.

 

 

Georgia Woman dies due Republican’s Abortion Ban

 

Bans in states with abortion restrictions leading to preventable deaths

Troubling and horrific reports of women who need emergency care being denied what is medically necessary because health care providers are in practicing in states with extremely restrictive abortion laws.

 

10-year-old rape victim unable to get abortion in Ohio thanks to Trump, Republicans and the Radical Right Wing Supreme Court

A 10-year-old girl was raped and forced to travel to Indiana to get an abortion due to Republican dominated Ohio having banned most abortions.

 

Doctor who provided abortion for 10-year-old Ohio rape victim speaks out

 

Woman criminally charged after miscarriage in Ohio

 

Consequences of Republican’s Anti-Abortion Laws

Republican’s Anti-Abortion Laws have caused women to almost die from being denied medical care and forced over 60,000 births to women who were sexually abused.

 

Trump’s deadly abortion ban: ‘Women are dying. They got what they wanted.’

Amber Nicole Thurman died after doctors delayed her life-saving abortion care. Her death was ruled “preventable” by the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee, ProPublica reported. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains that without Republican appointees to the Supreme Court, Amber Nicole Thurman would be alive today.

 

 

Arizona’s abortion ban is exactly what Trump wanted

Arizona banned abortion after the state’s supreme court revived a 160-year-old law that criminalizes abortion — just one day after Donald Trump said that abortion rights should be left up to the states.

 

Arizona Supreme Court to enforce 1864 abortion ban, when age of consent was 10

 

Arizona Republicans block efforts to repeal Civil War-era abortion law

 

Arizona high court upholds 1864 abortion law

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a 160-year-old state law that bans almost all abortions is still enforceable. The law makes it a felony for anyone who performs or helps a woman obtain an abortion. The decision adds Arizona to a growing list of states where abortion care is largely banned.

 

President Biden stated at his 2024 State of the Union Address: ‘Those overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women’

 

A new poll from NPR shows the majority of people disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

 

Mar 26, 2024 – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could impact access to Mifepristone, an abortion pill. A number of justices indicated the lawsuit should be dismissed.

 

Radical Right Wing Republican Christian Nationalists are part of the Christo-fascist movement passing strict anti-abortion laws to charge a woman with murder who aborts a pregnancy for any reason.

Law Giving Fetuses The Rights Of A Born Person Targeted By Abortion Rights Groups

Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, talks about the next step by opponents of abortion, “fetal personhood,” and how poorly thought-out anti-abortion laws are having a chilling effect on women’s health providers who aren’t sure what is newly illegal.

 

What to Know About the Alabama Supreme Court’s Embryo Ruling

The Alabama Supreme Court just made a terrifying embryo ruling — and the judge, Chief Justice Tom Parker, who is a proponent of the Seven Mountains Mandate went as far as to quote the Bible in their defense. This is Christian Nationalist Fascism.

 

GOP Policy Is To Victimize Rape Victims Forcing Them To Give Birth

In the 50 years of debate on abortion in the United States, Republican politicians don’t tell the truth when asked why victims of rape and incest should be forced to give birth.

 

GOP Blocks Bill Protecting Right To Travel For Abortion

As states try to ban interstate travel for women to access legal abortion services, Senate Republicans have blocked a bill that would protect a woman’s right to travel for healthcare. Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that while Democrats can’t codify Roe, they can “at least guarantee women’s right to travel to states that may allow for reproductive services.”

 

Republicans Push Abortion Bills Through House, Proving They Learned Nothing From Midterms

Republicans wasted no time moving several anti-abortion bills through the House of Representatives.

 

Senate Republicans block bill that would protect abortion access in US

Senate Democrats forced a vote Wednesday to advance the Women’s Health Protection Act that would codify abortion rights into federal law in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion.

Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sued to get abortion due to medical emergency

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against 31-year-old Kate Cox who sued to get an emergency abortion because her fetus had developed a lethal condition and her health was at risk. The Court is made up entirely of Republicans, including John Devine, who centered his 2012 election on his anti-abortion ideology, including boasting about getting arrested dozens of times for protesting abortion clinics. Cox’s lawyers say she has left the state to get an abortion.

 

‘Wake The Hell Up!’: Mika blasts ‘cruel’ ‘desperate’ Texas AG mimicking Trump on women’s rights

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday night temporarily halted a lower court’s order that would have permitted Kate Cox, a pregnant Dallas woman, whose fetus has lethal abnormality, to get an abortion after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton requested the high court step in to intervene.

 

 

‘This is not where America is’: Mika blasts Texas AG over blocking abortion

Texas resident Kate Cox has left the state to get an abortion after her fetus was given a fatal diagnosis. The move comes while Cox had been awaiting a decision from the Texas Supreme Court about whether she would be allowed to get the abortion.

 

Mom who sought abortion dies. See her chilling texts hours before her death

 

Michigan Example Exposes Dishonesty Of GOP Insistence On Abortion As A ‘State Issue’

Alex Wagner shows that despite a litany of Republicans insisting in approval of the Dobbs decision that abortion laws should be decided at the state level, Republicans are actually pursuing a federal abortion ban and are trying to prevent Michiganders from voting to protect abortion rights.

 

The Illegitimate Republican Minority Appointed Supreme Court voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft opinion written by Samuel Alito obtained by POLITICO.

 

Democrats Senator Chuck Schumer, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senator Elizabeth Warren express outrage over Supreme Court Memo justifying overturning Roe V. Wade

 

Democrats, outraged by Roe v. Wade draft opinion, call for action

 

Republican Senator Katie Britt, who was last seen making a fool of herself from her own kitchen during her State of the Union Response, has put forth legislation that could end up creating a national database with the personal information of every pregnant woman in America. Britt claims that the legislation would only create resources for pregnant women to understand their options (options that don’t include any information about terminating a pregnancy,) but the legislation actually says that women can enter their information for the government to track and store. This is exceptionally dangerous, given the laws that are popping up all over the country.

 

Fmr. Planned Parenthood President ‘Shocked To Read The Disregard For Women’

Former President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards and NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor discuss the fallout from the leaked draft SCOTUS opinion and how the conservative campaign to overturn Roe is out of step with the American people.

 

Republican Supreme Court nominees learned not to tell the truth about their Roe v. Wade opinions after Reagan nominee Robert Bork told the truth and lost his confirmation hearing vote 42-58 in 1987

 

Samuel Alito’s Lies Did Not Stop In His Confirmation Hearing

Lawrence O’Donnell details the years of lying and hypocrisy from Republicans and Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices on abortion rights.

 

Sen. Whitehouse: We Have A ‘Rotten Ethics Mess’ At Supreme Court

In the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse who says ethics rules are “optional” for the Supreme Court and weaker than other equivalent rules in the executive and legislative branches.

 

‘Offensive’: Ted Cruz Compares Roe V. Wade Protestors To 1/6 Protestors

Every Republican senator voted against advancing the Women’s Health Protection Act, which prohibits government restrictions on abortion, on Wednesday. Sen. Patty Murray joins Joy Reid on this vote that puts Republicans on the record as refusing to codify Roe v. Wade into law.

 

Republicans Assault on Women

 

They want to criminalize miscarriages.

They want women to file a "fetal death certificate" for any & all miscarriages.

And they want it to be a public document.

Think about that.

They want to make *public* these traumatic experiences of loss.

They don’t deserve their power. https://t.co/fQig5WOSAw

— Buffy Wicks (@BuffyWicks) May 27, 2021

 

‘We’re Under A Five Alarm Fire,’ Political Strategist Says Of New Anti-Abortion Laws

The Radical Right Wing Republican Dominated Supreme Court justices have made it clear that not only would they refuse to block extremist anti-abortion laws like the Texas bounty law, but that they are also on track to fulfilling one of the Christian right’s most durable goals. Namely, gutting or just going all-in and overturning Roe v. Wade.

 

Like Iranian Religious Fanatics, Republican Christian Nationalist believe the Church Should Run The United States Government

 

Why Most Republicans Won’t Defend The Texas Abortion Ban

Chris Hayes breaks down why most Republicans are not out there celebrating and defending the Texas abortion ban—even the ones in Texas.

 

Woman charged with murder in Texas after causing a ‘self-induced abortion’

Officials in Starr County, Texas, say 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera is facing a murder charge after authorities said she caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion”.

Reproductive rights advocates are voicing their outrage after a woman in Texas was arrested and charged with murder for what law enforcement called “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”

“Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” sheriff’s Maj. Carlos Delgado said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Rockie Gonzalez, founder of Frontera Fund, the nonprofit abortion access fund that organized the protest, called the arrest “inhumane,” adding in a Saturday statement that “criminalizing pregnant people’s choices or pregnancy outcomes, which the state of Texas has done, takes away people’s autonomy over their own bodies, and leaves them with no safe options when they choose not to become a parent.”

 

Chris Hayes On Why Texas Abortion Law Design Is Particularly Egregious

 

Trump states Women should be punished for having an abortion

 

In 2012 the Republican party waged a War on Women and the Progressives fought back with this powerful ad featuring prominent women reading out offensive lines from Republican candidates and lawmakers.

 

New Abortion Law In Texas Is Among Most Restrictive In US

Texas Gov. Greg Abbot signed a controversial “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban into law Wednesday that critics say is among the most restrictive in the nation.

 

Supreme Court to take up case next term that could limit Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a major abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to Roe v. Wade at the majority conservative court.

 

Republicans Pass More New Anti-Choice Laws (4/15/21)

 

Jennifer O’Mara bravely shared her own emotional pregnancy story in response to a bill that she says would force grieving parents to ‘relive trauma.’

 

Alabama bill would make false rape allegations a crime

In the midst of debating a radical anti-abortion law, state Republicans proposed a bill that could punish victims for coming forward.

 

Four GOP States, Ohio, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama have passed radical new bills to overturn Roe v Wade.

 

This video with Rachel Maddow shows a lists of states in which Republicans has passed laws to close Abortion Clinics.

 

On December 11, 2013, Senator Whitmer shared a deeply personal story as part of her testimony against legislation to force women in Michigan to pre-purchase rape insurance riders as a part of their health insurance coverage.

 

Sen. Warren on Republicans’ efforts to change the laws so employers can deny women access to birth control coverage

 

Abortion bans force women to ‘new back alley’ Rebekah Dryden, senior producer for “All In with Chris Hayes,” talks with Rachel Maddow about a the war on abortion rights targeting medication abortions.

 

Most-needy are victims of Texas war on women Rachel Maddow reports on the plight of a Texas doctor who has been forced by new anti-abortion laws to stop helping women in need.

 

Republican Paul Ryan stated in the above video – “We don’t want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn’t even considered”