Thom Hartmann: Trump's Second Term: How to Resist Fascism like Our Lives Depend on It! (Because They Do)

Nov 20. 2024 | Donald Trump's fascist agenda for his second presidential term has to be stopped. We know how the poisonous hate that animates fascism seeps into a society because we saw it ourselves during the first 4 years of the Trump administration and throughout the past year’s campaign.

We’re watching it in Red states across the country as MAGA Republicans replace honorable Republicans like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

We know how easily a government can be toppled and how close we came on January 6, 2021: if just five Republicans had not refused to go along with Trump we would have been thrown into this fascist dystopia four years earlier.

We can’t pretend we don’t know what’s happening and where it will lead if it’s not stopped. And now that we do know, we can’t escape the moral obligation to resist with everything we have.

Nancy Mace and Markwayne Mullin Are the Definition of Hypocrisy | The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Nov 20, 2024 | The MAGA movement has a hypocrisy problem and it's more widespread than we could ever imagine. Steve Schmidt examines recent comments from MAGA Republicans and reveals the duplicity of everything they say and do.

America has turned into a SICK JOKE! FA! FT! – © Mark Alexander

The Risk Haunting Trump’s Second Term: Amateur Cabinet Sinks MAGA Agenda, Warns Icon Bob Woodward

Nov 20, 2024 | Journalistic icon Bob Woodward joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. Woodward calls Trump’s picks “an effort to scare people.”

Thom Hartmann: Former GOP Insider: Trump’s Agenda Could Tear the Nation Apart w/ Steve Schmidt

Nov 19, 2024 | Donald Trump's agenda is the most dangerous threat to America since the secession according to former Republican Steve Schmidt.

Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski's Meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago | The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Nov 19, 2024 | Yesterday on MSNBC, "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski revealed they met with Donald Trump in an attempt to "reset" their communications. Steve Schmidt explains why this was a cowardly act and breaks down the hypocrisy of bending the knee to President-elect Trump.

Strong language alert! – Mark

Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail

OPINION : DAVID FRENCH
THE NEW YORK TIMES: That was quick.

Donald Trump is planting the seeds of his own political demise. The corrupt, incompetent and extremist men and women he’s appointing to many of the most critical posts in his cabinet are direct threats to the well-being of the country, but they’re also political threats to Trump and to his populist allies.

To understand why, it’s important to remember a cardinal reality about Trump’s political career. He has now won two general elections when he was the only alternative to an unsatisfactory status quo, and he lost the one when he was the unsatisfactory status quo. If he can’t govern well, his populist partisan realignment will come apart before it can truly begin.

One of the most maddening aspects of the 2024 election is the extent to which so many voters viewed Trump as a mostly normal political candidate. MAGA Republicans see Trump as a singular figure, but an immense number of voters thought the talk about Trump was overheated in both directions.

If you’re like most Americans and don’t follow the news closely, it’s easy to see why you would see Trump in more conventional terms. A Politico analysis of the Trump campaign’s ads showed that “the single most-aired ad from his campaign since the start of October is all about inflation, Medicare and Social Security — arguing that” Kamala Harris “will make seniors already struggling with high prices ‘pay more Social Security taxes,’ while ‘unauthorize’ immigrants receive benefits.” » | David French, Opinion columnist | Sunday, November 17, 2024

Oh, Trump will fail alright! “Bigly”! America’s reputation will go down and down in the coming years. Just mark my words! Under Trump’s “reign”, the world will start looking eastwards for leadership, not westwards. The man is a clown, and when you elect a clown, all you can expect is a circus! Nothing less!

For the Americans who were so stupid as to fall for this man’s crap, I will have no sympathy whatsoever. They will deserve all they will have to suffer through. For the Americans who had better sense than to vote for the clown, I will have. Plenty! I will also have sympathy for us the other side of the Pond who will be forced to live through this crap.

The shitshow will soon begin. Brace yourselves for an extremely bumpy, extremely uncomfortable ride! — © Mark Alexander

UK Must Choose between EU and Trump, Trade Experts Warn

THE OBSERVER: Pascal Lamy, former head of the WTO, says Britain will have to take sides if new US administration slaps hefty tariffs on imports, as fears grow over possible trade war

The former head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said that the UK should side with the European Union over trade and economic policies rather than a Donald Trump-led US, as fears grow over a possible global trade war.

Pascal Lamy, who was head of the WTO from 2005 to 2013, said it was clear that the UK’s interests lay in staying close to the EU on trade, rather than allying with Trump, not least because it does three times more trade with Europe than the US.

His comments came after a key Trump supporter, Stephen Moore, said on Friday that the UK should reject the EU’s “socialist model” if it wanted to have any realistic chance of doing a free trade deal with the US under Trump and, as a result, avoid the 20% tariffs on exports that the president-elect has promised.

In an interview with the Observer, Lamy said: “It’s an old question with a new relevance given Brexit and given Trump. In my view the UK is a European country. Its socio- economic model is much closer to the EU social model and not the very hard, brutal version of capitalism of Trump and [Elon] Musk. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, November 16, 2024

I've already made my choice. FA! – © Mark Alexander

Say No to Trump’s Shitshow! Say No to Trump’s Advances. Let Us Not Join the Circus

MARK ALEXANDER: The Americans have destroyed the West. They have destroyed the wonderful way of life that Westerners were once able to lead. Americans have destroyed Western values, too. What can we thank Americans for? They have destroyed family life. They have forced mothers out into the workplace, thereby abandoning their traditional roles are mothers, caring wives, and caregivers. Look at women today! And then compare them with women and mothers of yesteryear! Simply put: There is no comparison.

Have the Americans taught the world how to eat healthily? Hardly! Americans are largely overweight, even obese, and they fill their tummies with junk food. Hardly a way of eating to follow which is conducive to good health!

Have Americans taught the world how to dress? Hardly! Elegance is as hard to find in the States as is a needle in haystack! Unless, of course, your idea of elegance is a baseball cap and a T-shirt!

Have Americans taught the world how to enjoy family life? Again, hardly! If anything, with their insistence on working mothers, Americans have destroyed any semblance of wholesome family life.

Have Americans improved the English language? Again, hardly! Just listen to American videos and American TV, they are replete with foul words. The F bomb is dropped with alarming regularity, without anyone batting an eyelid.

Manners have largely disappeared from American life. Gone are the days in which one was addressed as “Sir” in a shop over there.

Americans talk a hell of a lot about Christianity. But do they live their lives in a Christian way? Hardly! First of all, the American’s understanding of Christianity is extremely skewed, to say the least. They believe that Jesus was all about making money! I would wager that the god that Americans worship is not God, but Mammon!

Can Americans teach us how to run a healthcare system? Again, hardly! Americans spend far, far more on healthcare than probably any other nation, yet the outcomes are worse. Furthermore, millions, literally millions, of Americans cannot afford for themselves any healthcare at all.

One could go on. And on!

Just about the only lessons we can learn from America, Americans, are in technology and IT. The rest, we are better off ignoring.

© Mark Alexander
All Rights Reserved

Trump Will Force UK Choose between ‘Socialist’ Europe and the Free-market US | Senior Trump advisor

Nov 16, 2024 | “We have a smaller government where our taxes are generally lower than those in Europe, and that has worked well for the US, and I think it would work well for Britain.”

Labour must choose a free market American model and ‘socialist’ Europe if they want a trade deal with Trump, especially after Rachel Reeve’s “crazy” budget, says Stephen Moore, senior economics advisor to president-elect Trump.


Say NO to that SHITSHOW! All good things come from Europe, not America. – © Mark Alexander

A View from the Left: Wolff Responds Special Election Reaction

Nov 6, 2024 | Today's Special "Wolff Responds", Professor Wolff is joined by Dr Harriet Fraad and Professor Shahram Azhar to discuss the results of the 2024 Presidential election

A View from the Left: Capitalism Hits Home: Why Did Trump Win? | Dr Harriet Fraad

Nov 14, 2024 | In this week's episode, Dr Fraad explores why and how a convicted felon who was found liable for sexual assault was chosen to lead America.

Americans, and particularly white American men ,are frightened. They have lost family wages and their wives as well. White women have lost the lifetime financial support of their domestic labor and child-care. Americans have no Left Party to explain their lesser lives. Why not? This podcast begins to explain it.

Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production.


WIKIPEDIA: Harriet Fraad »

Fasten your seatbelts! Trump’s re-election to the presidency promises to be the ‘Shitshow of the Century’, the ‘Shitshow Extraordinaire’! – © Mark Alexander

Trump Transition Coverage - Nov. 15 | MSNBC Highlights

Nov 16, 2024

Truth To Power: Trump or the EU? Brexit Britain Has to Choose

Nov 16, 2024 | The re-election of Donald Trump as president of the USA marks a new era in American and global politics. After his multiple attempts to overturn the democratic outcome of the 2020 election, his refusal to provide a peaceful and orderly transfer of power, and his role as instigator of a violent insurrection, Trump’s victory in 2024 represents a rejection of liberal democracy by the American people. Donald Trump’s authoritarian policy agenda represents an existential threat to the UK.

Michael Lambert: Brexit & Trump - Voters Choose Decline & Chaos

Nov 16, 2024 | The British economy continues to suffer from the effects of Brexit and Donald Trump is to be the next president of the United States.

Last week, a treasury minister, Rachel Reeves the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Governor of the Bank of England, all referred to the negative effects of Brexit.

The OBR calculated that Brexit will have cost the UK economy 15% of trade intensity [* see below] and 4% of GDP and yet the government continues to talk of growth as being the answer to the UK's economic problems. But where is this growth going to come from?

Donald Trump is to be the new POTUS and it is hoped that he will favour the UK with tariff exemptions or a trade deal**. This seems unlikely. My prediction is that Trump is unlikely to last a full term. He is impulsive, dishonest and will be almost totally unrestrained during his second term. I also expect that he will soon fall out with Elon Musk who, no doubt, feels that he 'bought' the presidency for Trump


* Trade intensity means the ratio between the total value of exports to third countries plus the value of imports from third countries and the total market size for the Union (annual domestic turnover of Union companies plus total imports from third countries) as per Eurostat statistics, Source: Law Insider.

** I disagree with Michael Lambert in this matter. Tariff exemptions, yes; I am all in favour of any tariff exemptions we can get. However, any trade deals with the USA will mean the UK relinquishing its sovereignty. Any deals with Trump will be to America’s advantage. This will not be a level playing field. Do we REALLY want the USA to buy up our hospitals? Do we really want the USA to privatise our NHS? Do we REALLY want chlorinated chicken on our supper plates, or hormone-injected beef? Do we REALLY want a plethora of GMO products on our dinner plates?

Further, any trade deals with the USA will put the UK in a seriously disadvantaged position; they will also push us further apart from the European Union, where we belong. The further the UK and the EU drift apart, the more difficult it will be to rejoin. Moreover, the longer we have been outside the European Union, the clearer it should be becoming to all, even the most Eurosceptics amongst us, that Brexit was a ridiculous experiment in self-harm right from the start. No-one with an iota of understanding of economics and international trade would ever have been in favour of wrenching this country apart from such a successful political and economic union. Cameron, BoJo, and Farage have a great deal to answer for. They have impoverished this nation, they have stunted its economic growth, they have made the European continent more vulnerable to invasion, and they have endangered the peace of our continent. Not forgetting, of course, that the European community was conceived to bring peace after the horrendous wars and suffering in the twentieth century.

The re-election of Trump has made the UK's re-entry into the European Union more urgent than it has been for a long time. It is to the UK's advantage, and the EU's, that Brexit be seen as a huge mistake, damaging both sides. For this reason, we British need to reconsider our membership of this political and economic bloc, and our European brethren and sistren need to find it in them to forgive and move on. Let us deny Putin the pleasure of a weakened Europe. Let us begin working together again. In earnest. — © Mark Alexander

What Donald Trump Means for Britain and the EU - Byline Interviews EP #3 | Mike Galsworthy

Nov 15, 2024

European Movement here »

Debunking Trump’s Lies: Obama’s Favourite Historian Yuval Harari Busts MAGA Playbook in Ari Melber Interview

Sep 13, 2024 | MSNBC’s Ari Melber sits down with Yuval Noah Harari (@YuvalNoahHarari), author of “Nexus,” for an in-depth interview on a wide range of topics. They dive into discussions on artificial intelligence, Donald Trump, misinformation, the concept of “truth,” and much more.

Trump Presidency Will Leave America ‘Impoverished, Bumbling and Stumbling’ | Timothy Snyder

Oct 12, 2024 | “Without the rule of law, you’re looking at a bumbling, stumbling, impoverished, unpredictable United States.”

Historian Timothy Snyder tells Jane Mulkerrins what he thinks a Trump presidency will look like.


The re-election of Donald Trump as president is a disaster for America and for the world. Elect a clown, expect a circus! – © Mark Alexander

Donald Trump Picks Vaccine Sceptic RFK Jr for Health Secretary | BBC News

Nov 15, 2024 | Donald Trump has picked vaccine sceptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary, as the president-elect continues to build his new administration.

Kennedy, commonly known by his initials RFK Jr, has a history of spreading health information that scientists say is false. If his nomination is approved by the Senate, he will lead a huge agency overseeing everything from food safety to medical research and welfare programmes.

Trump told supporters at his election night victory party that Kennedy wanted to "help make America healthy again".


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Line Up to Kiss the Ring! How to Join the Brownnosers Sucking Up to Trump

THE GUARDIAN: Business moguls and world leaders are desperate to weasel into Trump’s good books. It’s humiliating but the payday is worth it

A screenshot from today’s article in the Guardian, | We appear to have entered into a golden age of brown-nosing.’ Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Guardian Design; Photos by Scott Eisen, Yuri_Arcurs via Getty Images
Let the humiliation Olympics begin. As Donald Trump readies himself for his revenge tour, world leaders and business moguls are falling over themselves to show the incoming president how much they admire him. Even if it means making an embarrassment of themselves in the process.

While it’s only natural for the rich and powerful to try to ingratiate themselves with the incoming president of the United States, the extent to which people are lining up to kiss the ring is remarkable. This isn’t just diplomacy as usual: it speaks to Trump’s unapologetically transactional politics. He has made it very clear that loyalty will be richly rewarded and promised to ruthlessly pursue his enemies. As a result, we appear to have entered into a golden age of brown-nosing. » | Arwa Mahdawi | Thursday, November 14, 2024

Ex-Trump Adviser: John Bolton on the Future US President and the Consequences of His Election (OV)

Nov 13, 2024 | Interview with Ambassador (ret.) John Bolton (US Republican and former National Security Advisor to US President Trump (2018-2019)) on the plans of future US President Trump and the consequences for Germany and the world.