"Big Beautiful Bill" is the WORST Piece of Legislation in American History

Jul 7, 2025 | With Trump's "big beautiful bill" being signed into law, many Americans will be stripped of health insurance and food aid. Steve Schmidt breaks down what's inside the bill and explains the massive impacts it will have on American lives.

When I see Trump grinning like a Cheshire cat, showing his false teeth, I feel like puking! 🤮 – © Mark Alexander

"Most Massive Transfer of Wealth Upward in American History": John Nichols on Trump's Budget Law

July 7, 2025 | President Donald Trump and his allies are celebrating the passage of his sweeping tax and spending bill, which he signed into law on July 4 after a monthslong effort to shepherd it through Congress. Ultimately, just three Republicans in the Senate and two in the House voted against the legislation. The so-called Big, Beautiful Bill includes about $1 trillion in federal cuts to Medicaid and could kick 17 million people off their healthcare. It makes the largest-ever cuts to food assistance benefits, could cause the closure of nursing homes and rural hospitals across the country, raises housing and energy costs, and supercharges the Trump crackdown on immigrants — all while delivering massive tax benefits for the wealthiest people in the country

Trump and his Republican henchmen are as crooked and corrupt as they are shameless. What a SHITTY, cruel country America has turned out to be! Why people look up to that SHITHOLE as the non plus ultra is totally beyond my comprehension. – © Mark Alexander

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Trump Headed for Senate Rebellion over Medicaid Cuts and Debt Increases

Jul 1, 2025 | “Republicans from both ends of the spectrum… are rebelling at the same time.”

On the right of the Republican Party senators are “worried” about debt and deficit increases, while the left are worried about cuts to things such as Medicaid, says White House editor at The Hill, Niall Stannidge.

Stage 4 of Trump’s Psychopathic Meltdown! George Conway Uncensored!

Mar 18, 2025

Trump 'Can't Afford' to Hand Putin Victory in Ukraine

Mar 9, 2025 | "If there is going to be a ceasefire, some kind of, deal in Ukraine, then it's going to be hard to put together and it is going to take, really careful diplomacy to do that."

Donald Trump cannot afford to hand Putin soem from of victory in Urkaine as Republicans are still concerned about European security says Mark Sedwill former UK National Security Adviser.

Trump’s ‘Extreme Pivot’ to Moscow Is Irreversible | World in 10

Mar 5, 2025 | “If you say the word Ukraine to a certain type of Republican in the US, the word association that comes to their mind immediately is Biden.”

Trump’s suspension of military aid to Ukraine is an ‘extreme, irreversible pivot', says Chatham House’s David Lubin.

Jesse Dollemore: Idaho Republicans Attack LGBTQ Community - Ask Supreme Court to Outlaw Marriage Equality!

Jan 10, 2025 | Jesse discusses the elected Idaho Republicans' decision to ask the United States Supreme Court to end marriage equality nationally.

These Republicans are such ignoramuses. Backward, unenlightened, unintelligent ignoramuses. – © Mark Alexander

Republican Lawmakers Are Ready to Kick Elon Musk to the Curb

Jan 6, 2025 | Donald Trump isn't the only person getting sick and tired of Elon Musk - Republicans in Congress are also ready for the world's richest man to shut his mouth and sit in the corner. Republican lawmakers are STILL fuming over Musk's lies about the recently-passed budget bill, and they aren't holding back their disdain for his claims. But they won't dare actually get rid of him because they love his money more than they hate his antics, as Farron Cousins explains.

MAGA! MAGA! MAGA! PLOY! PLOY! PLOY!

MAGA Republicans don’t want wealthy people to be audited. Who’d have guessed it?

The Lincoln Project: Message

Dec 12, 2024 | A message for Republican Senators: Trump's agenda will fleece your constituents, while lining the pockets of his billionaire buddies. If you vote for Trump's policies, the fallout will follow you to your graves. We'll make sure of it.

Under Trump Mk2, we will witness the USA being turned into a full-on plutocracy. Trump is the mega-billionaires' fool. And they’ll play him like one, too. We will soon witness the superrich getting richer and richer, and the impoverishment of ordinary Americans. How the American electorate could have fallen for this undemocratic cr** is beyond my comprehension. Moreover, if I am not greatly mistaken, after Trump, America will never be the same again.

By the way, when it comes to economics, Trump is clueless. Trump thinks that Wall Street rising and rising is indicative of the economy burgeoning and booming This is nonsense. Wall Street is like a casino. It is perfectly possible for the superrich to be making gazillions for themselves on the stock market even when the economy is faltering, even when the workers and middle class are struggling to survive.

We can look forward to a rough ride. – © Mark Alexander

Thom Hartmann Programm : Inside Billionaires' Brazen Attempt at Fascism

Nov 5, 2024 | This is not how a democracy is supposed to work. The “demos” in democracy means “the people.” Democracies are supposed to fulfill the will of the people; add the protections for minority groups a republic provides and you have what the Founders called “republican democracy” and we refer to as a democratic republic.

Former White House Chief of Staff Warns Trump Is America's Hitler

Oct 24, 2024 | Marine Cops General and Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is warning that if Donald Trump gains power in November he will become America's Hitler. Dean Obeidallah joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the why John Kelly is right.

JD Vance Says Mass Deportations Should Start with One Million!

This is Vance’s solution to America’s problem of illegal immigration: Mass deportations. Wow! Is this an example of Christian Republican compassion?

America and Hungary, a Far-Right Love Affair

Aug 20, 2024 | Matthew Cassel travels to Budapest during Viktor Orban’s reelection to explore why so many right-wing Americans are traveling to Hungary, and what they hope to learn from Central Europe’s most autocratic ruler. This segment is from the show ‘VICE’ which originally aired in May 2022.

MAGA Republicans Would Destroy 100 Years of Progress

Jul 28, 2024 | MAGA Republicans don't just want to turn back the clock of progress. They want to destroy it completely.

Biden Out, Harris In: “This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared” | Amanpour and Company

Jul 24, 2024 | Tim Alberta has had a front-row seat at what has been a dramatic turn of events for Donald Trump and his team. Alberta spent months behind the scenes of Trump's campaign, and just two weeks ago reported that they were planning for a landslide victory -- on the condition Joe Biden didn't drop out. Now that their worst fears have come true, Alberta discusses with us how the Trump campaign is shifting its approach to confront a new Democratic nominee. | Originally aired on July 24, 2024

Panic: Republicans Meltdown on National TV over Kamala

Jul 22, 2024

The Lincoln Project: RNC Day Four Re-Cap

Jul 19, 2024 | The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat these forces everywhere and at all times — our democracy depends on it

Clearly, the inmates have been let out of the asylum! Good God! Is this the best that the leading nation of the free world can do? The West won’t be united under the hegemony of the USA for much longer if things go on like this. This behaviour is truly disgusting! – © Mark Alexander

US Funding Failure Will Have Serious Battlefield Consequences, Says Ukraine

GUARDIAN EUROPE: Zelenskiy aide says ‘foreign policy has become a hostage of internal politics’ after Republicans torpedo aid bill

The repeated failure of the Biden administration to get a funding package for Ukraine approved by the Senate will have real consequences in terms of lives on the battlefield and Kyiv’s ability to hold off Russian forces on the frontline, say Ukrainian officials.

The latest move by Senate Republicans to torpedo a bipartisan bill that would have combined $60bn (£48bn) in aid for Ukraine with aid to Israel and increased border security measures is a bitter blow for Kyiv. It could signal a very grim year ahead as the US political agenda settles into an election year with Donald Trump all but certain to be the Republican candidate.

As the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine approaches, Ukrainian officials say the delay in US support has already had a clear impact on the battlefield, where Kyiv’s exhausted troops have a severe hardware deficit in comparison to the Russians. » | Shaun Walker in Kyiv | Thursday, February 8, 2024

And some Americans, hopefully albeit few in number, appear to be rooting for Putin to win this war! Scott Ritter appears to be one of those people! (And what, pray tell, are we to make of Tucker Carlson’s interview of Vladimir Putin?)

Please don’t forget to watch this discussion between the distinguished, if a little controversial, extremely right-wing Roger Köppel [Wikipedia] of the well-known Swiss journal, Die Weltwoche, and the no less controversial American, Scott Ritter [Wikipedia], who clearly argues Putin’s case for him!

I have decided not to embed this video lest people think that I endorse Scott Ritter’s viewpoint. I CERTAINLY DO NOT. Listening to Scott Ritter speaking in this video, stuns me. Prepare yourselves to be stunned, too! – © Mark Alexander

Please note that the video starts in German but soon changes to English for Roger Köppel's discussion with Scott Ritter.

Click here to watch the video and listen to the discussion. By the way, even its title is mind-blowing!

'Shame on You': Polish Prime Minister Hits Out at US Republicans

THE GUARDIAN: Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has issued a sharp public rebuke to American Republicans.

In a post on social media this morning, the centre-right politician said:

“Dear Republican Senators of America. Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us to win back our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you.” » | Lili Bayer in Brussels | Thursday, February 8, 2024