I AM WILDLY OPPOSED TO ANY MENTION OF IMPEACHMENT. This is 100 percent the wrong strategy right now. And you are also misreading the importance of the vote today - it is not about the files and whatever happens with them, it is about his complete and total humiliation and repudiation.
If you are going to remain an active member of the community do not come on here and tell people what to do. You can say what you are doing but do not be so presumptuous to be able to believe you can direct others.
Impeachment is a hare-brained idea. I can think of no more sure-fired way to inspire Republicans to circle the wagons, drop all opposition to Trump, and instead defend and strengthen him!
Even if Democrats currently held majorities in both chambers of Congress, I wouldn’t support this now; for even then it would be an exercise in futility, utterly counterproductive.
Damning public hearings, yes. Humiliation and political death by a thousand cuts, yes. But even without Democrats in control, that is precisely what Trump is suffering right now!
We're going to need a supermajority in the senate to convict the president and I doubt we can pull GOP senators. Also, note that JD Vance will become president which...not keen on at all.
It's a moot point. That being said dem majorities in congress can do a lot of harm reduction and that can help. It did in 2018.
Many online people who advocate impeachment don't seem to realize (1) that it has to be followed by conviction in the Senate to make a difference; (2) that if it's followed by conviction, JD Vance would become president; and (3) that there's no way in hell that a Republican Senate would come up with the 2/3 majority needed to convict -- especially *this* Republican Senate.
Something I'd very much like to see come out of this mess: a revitalization of civics education, and not only in the schools -- we adults need it too. It's died out in too many places, especially the places that I suspect need it most (like every state whose Electoral College votes went to Trump not once, not twice, but three times).
I'd also like to see Citizens United (2010) and Shelby County v. Holder (2013) overturned. That's just for starters.
Impeachment would be an extremely bad move right now. Why? Because the Repubs are in power. Even if articles of impeachment were to pass the House, the trial in the Senate would fail yet again. Trump, having beaten two prior impeachment and removal attempts, would feel even more invincible after having beaten a third. And don't think removal from office would be successful even if Democrats secured majorities in both houses of Congress after the 2026 midterms.
The ultimate jury is the American people. I witnessed this during the Watergate hearings -- serving in the Navy at the time.
I suppose some can justify selling the American people down the river -- by giving up on them. They might have very compelling reasons for doing so. I am just of a generation where that is not an option.
Today’s essay by Simon is so damning, so packed with overwhelming evidence that America’s resistance is far stronger than Mad King Donald and his cronies. So encouraging to read!
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On another note: Did Donald Trump rape a 13-year-old girl? Strong evidence and testimony suggests he did – but corporate media won’t touch the story. Here is Borowitz:
I was thinking yesterday what this country would look like if people did not so easily brush off harassment and abuse—if people cannot be bothered to care about the women themselves they might realize that men who use their power in this way will do it, in some way or another, to everyone. (Immediately, no Thomas, Kavanaugh, Trump, half his cabinet, massive donors disgraced.)
Neither should have been elevated to the highest court of the land! Tragically, Justice Clarence Thomas, that is in large part due to choices Joe Biden made as a US Senator.
Yes. Saw a woman's post yesterday wondering about the impact of Summer's and his cronies on the academic careers of countless women students and junior faculty. How the culture of an institution is shaped by having Epstein listers at the top, for a generation. As a post-academic myself, I've been thinking about the outsize influence Harvard has on my own field, and wondering...
And that's just academia. There are so many other industries and professions and institutions. The jaw drops.
We hold every last one of these b*stards accountable. Every. Last. One.
Believe women? Ghislaine Maxwell, not so much. But I believe this woman who recounts the abuse she suffered at the hands of Trump as a 13 year old. Let us remember that Trump already is an adjudicated rapist!
The phrase "believe women" is used in the context of survivors telling their stories. Ghislaine is an adjudicated rapist too, we don't believe her under any circumstances.
Our society has deeply-rooted issues with racism and sexism. I hold firm that deep within MAGA is a belief that the Epstein women (and all women for that matter) are responsible for their own disasters and abuses (original sin?) The public-face rage over women and girls being abused is convenient and admirable. They can face themselves in the mirror when they force themselves into that advocacy role.
You don't care about women and girls and let them bleed out in parking lots and tell them a slap in the face is no reason to call the police on your husband/boyfriend.
I am listening to MAGA Mikey drone on now for how long? I can't believe what a condescending, sanctomonious, lying twat he is. He's such a fucking child-man.
I just watched this as well. I did not know any of the details of this story, nor did I know she had made a video testimony. It is unfortunate that the media has neglected her story and that of the other victims. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Simon, I’m wondering about the TX elections. Colin Allred says he’s neck and neck with Paxton. Talarico is a new, fresh, and more engaged with voters candidate, and Crockett is considering running for the same seat. While I wish they would all run for different positions I am unsure who has the best chance. I’ve held off contributions to anyone waiting to see what Crockett decides. Would love your take!
I realize I may be sticking my head in the lion's mouth, but I can't help but notice you didn't answer the implied question. As a Texan, I'm rather curious to hear your thoughts on the matter as well, though given your past comments, I can understand your reticence. While I admire and respect your commitment to internal neutrality, I feel obligated to point out that you wouldn't be taking sides by answering, and speaking on behalf of the community, we wouldn't think you were.
So, with all due respect: Who do you feel has the best chance in the primary as of today?
I have no idea who the better candidate is. That's why we have primaries. The better candidate usually emerges from the rough and tumble. They are both very candidates.
Very interesting - thanks Wyatt. Though I’m not totally surprised. Allred just doesn’t get around the state much and Talarico does and goes on Fox and other news outlets and he has a demeanor that is engaging - like Pete Buttigieg
indeed - that is a choice I wish were avoidable. We need all of the energy, commitment and courage exhibited by each of these extraordinary candidates!
Thanks for the great and very important article by Garrett. Unfortunately, it's horrendous in Memphis and very few are covering/talking about it. I was on a MoveOn call last night, and a leader from BLM Memphis described how teams of every level of law enforcement/immigration are working in tandem, pulling people over for minor infractions and terrorizing folks just trying to live their lives. It's a majority Black city with a storied history. It's one of my favorite cities, and what's being done to its citizens is just unforgivable. We need to support them however we can, and bring pressure to the pro-democracy movement to stand with them & to cover this story.
Another great episode of the American Revolution last night--we learned about the awful hardships experienced by the Patriots, and how continuous pressure led to an inflection point in which the Declaration was a necessity.
Looking forward to the vote today at 1:30. Accountability is the name of the game. I mentioned that yesterday. We can't wait till the midterms -- we don't know how things will turn out, and we have to use the tools at our disposal. Rep. Garcia and Rep. Khanna and Rep. Lee and so many on the Oversight Committee have proved this point. Don't back down. Don't let up. And ensure our House & Senate Dems do the same. And if they don't, we vote them out.
Shannon Watts (founder of Moms Demand Action) used to say "we'll have your support or we'll have your jobs." Bingo.
I called my R representative and let him know which way I expect him to vote on the Epstein files. I'm still working on voter reg postcards for Alaska.
It does seem like there is a retreat across many fronts. What would be fascinating is a pullback from the attacks on the ACA. Without Trump leading "policy", who is going to do it and what is it going to look like? It's hard for me to believe there is any muscle-memory for leadership left in the GOP.
They've always been followers of whoever the leader is, but they never take the kneepads off these days, unless they are ready or willing to retire. They also don't actually care about people, this is all self-preservation mode.
That picture of him does have a Dorian Gray vibe, doesn't it?
100% and while they must be held accountable for all of it, the ICE raids that have been unconscionably cruel and extreme, really must be answered for. They are totally unnecessary and done solely to terrify and must be dealt with severely IMHO.
Yesterday my son came home and told me that the boy sitting next to him in social studies started talking about the threat of ICE raids in Wake and Durham counties (NC; my son is in 8th grade). He told my son that his parents are in the final stages of legalizing their status but that they are terrified. My son and I have talked about this a lot, but hearing it from a classmate really brought it home to him. I am just sick to my soul that all this is happening. My son was kind of traumatized about imagining coming home to find me vanished -- and for him this is just an act of the imagination. I am enraged and heartsick all at once, and I will unleash on Tillis and Budd when I get done typing this.
And boy, if Stephen Miller wanted to absolutely tank the GOP in NC, he couldn't pick a better way to do it! The images of what is happening in Charlotte are all over the place and it is not playing well with anyone.
G’morning all. I’m heading out to a county board of supervisors meeting to speak as a citizen in support of county action to provide shelter for our homeless population. Winter approaches. And to set up a meeting with a democratic candidate for state senate who is speaking out about statewide wildfire management policy — I’m writing a series of articles about the devastating situation of homeowners’ insurance, locally. Figured I’d plug a local Democrat here in blood-red bastion of lily white inland California.
Simon, I promise to send a little piece of my next retirement check to bolster our initiative to expand Democratic outreach into the hinterlands. I wish I had more to give.
Hi Emily - I always wish I had more to give too, but knowing who to give money to after vetting from Simon has made donating much more meaningful for me. Helping the candidates and causes that need the money, and then watching them succeed, has been such a great feeling!
I think that is some ways the health care system is broken. It is insanely expensive and we need, as Bernie reminds us over and over Medicare for all or national health insurance just like all other developed countries. We do not have enough doctors because the med schools control how many can become doctors. The insurance companies and big pharma get the big bucks and we get less than stellar health care and worse outcomes than many countries.
Becoming a doctor or a health care administrator should not be a sure road to becoming a millionaire. But trying to fix this has always met with resistance as Hillary Clinton found out and as Obama found out with ACA which was the absolutely best he could get through. The GOP has always stood in the way of getting any of this accomplished. Death panels they screamed about ACA and yet they are the very ones creating the death panels with the draconian big ugly bill. We know someone who is losing their access to dialysis because of the cuts to Medicaid. That is a death sentence. Thanks to the GOP. I wrote to Sen. Tillis about this but I have heard crickets.
Republicans broke our health care system. It is not broken. Our opponent isn't abstract concepts like oligarchy, or greed, or higher prices. It is Republicans.
That's what Leader Jeffries said this morning in an MS Now interview (listened only bc they were interviewing him). Language is important -- clear language, not euphemism and passive voice. As a person w MFA in nonfiction writing, I concur!
Becoming a physician is NOT a sure road to becoming a millionaire. The cost of medical school is astounding. You cannot begin to earn $ until residency, and then you are not well paid. When you finally begin to practice, most physicians are paying off huge loans for years. These are very intelligent folks who could have been making lots of $ in finance. And if you are an internist or family practitioner or a pediatrician, you are NOT earning big money. Sorry, but this is personal. We have many challenges in our healthcare system. But physicians are retiring early because it is so stressful. And GOD forbid you are a physician/scientist since they just cut all the funding for research.
I am in agreement it is more the management that makes big bucks and the cost of education is the problem. It should not break the bank. I am well aware of what it takes and how onerous it can be. I apologize if I implied all doctors are well off. I know that is not true. As Bernie often points out going to school should either be free or reasonable. Med school is not as I am well aware. If you end schooling owing 200K or more, it will take years to make a reasonable living. That is also a problem that should not exist for people who seek to help others.
Just got home from 3 nights in “war ravaged Portland” (lol) and even though I used transit and ran around to all my favorite places, I saw no ICE activity and no helicopters overhead. Best I could tell they’ve chilled out there too except for right around the ICE office building and I guess targeted abductions that happen randomly. Everywhere I went seemed completely normal and safe.
Hi all, Any Vermont folks out there working on Resolutions of Condemnation? We are a small group of elders hoping to find others who are working on this idea. Thanks.
Great work, Simon. I'd nominate that photograph of the returning Dear Leader for a Pulitzer in Photography. The crumpled flag on the ground, the burnt sienna makeup, the posture of a broken old man, it is all there.
I can't see most of it, but given the words "liberal fantasy" appear within the first 10 words, I can guess as to the general tone and "backhanded compliment." Congratulations indeed, sir.
I AM WILDLY OPPOSED TO ANY MENTION OF IMPEACHMENT. This is 100 percent the wrong strategy right now. And you are also misreading the importance of the vote today - it is not about the files and whatever happens with them, it is about his complete and total humiliation and repudiation.
If you are going to remain an active member of the community do not come on here and tell people what to do. You can say what you are doing but do not be so presumptuous to be able to believe you can direct others.
Impeachment is a hare-brained idea. I can think of no more sure-fired way to inspire Republicans to circle the wagons, drop all opposition to Trump, and instead defend and strengthen him!
Even if Democrats currently held majorities in both chambers of Congress, I wouldn’t support this now; for even then it would be an exercise in futility, utterly counterproductive.
Damning public hearings, yes. Humiliation and political death by a thousand cuts, yes. But even without Democrats in control, that is precisely what Trump is suffering right now!
Wait wait wait I’m confused. We couldn’t do it even if we had majorities in both chambers? I thought that’s what we would need.
We're going to need a supermajority in the senate to convict the president and I doubt we can pull GOP senators. Also, note that JD Vance will become president which...not keen on at all.
It's a moot point. That being said dem majorities in congress can do a lot of harm reduction and that can help. It did in 2018.
Nope, two-thirds are needed to convict in the Senate.
Many online people who advocate impeachment don't seem to realize (1) that it has to be followed by conviction in the Senate to make a difference; (2) that if it's followed by conviction, JD Vance would become president; and (3) that there's no way in hell that a Republican Senate would come up with the 2/3 majority needed to convict -- especially *this* Republican Senate.
Something I'd very much like to see come out of this mess: a revitalization of civics education, and not only in the schools -- we adults need it too. It's died out in too many places, especially the places that I suspect need it most (like every state whose Electoral College votes went to Trump not once, not twice, but three times).
I'd also like to see Citizens United (2010) and Shelby County v. Holder (2013) overturned. That's just for starters.
Impeachment would be an extremely bad move right now. Why? Because the Repubs are in power. Even if articles of impeachment were to pass the House, the trial in the Senate would fail yet again. Trump, having beaten two prior impeachment and removal attempts, would feel even more invincible after having beaten a third. And don't think removal from office would be successful even if Democrats secured majorities in both houses of Congress after the 2026 midterms.
The ultimate jury is the American people. I witnessed this during the Watergate hearings -- serving in the Navy at the time.
I suppose some can justify selling the American people down the river -- by giving up on them. They might have very compelling reasons for doing so. I am just of a generation where that is not an option.
Today’s essay by Simon is so damning, so packed with overwhelming evidence that America’s resistance is far stronger than Mad King Donald and his cronies. So encouraging to read!
***
On another note: Did Donald Trump rape a 13-year-old girl? Strong evidence and testimony suggests he did – but corporate media won’t touch the story. Here is Borowitz:
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/the-epstein-story-that-corporate
Just watched that. We've known about this for a while, as Dr. Manne said. Believe women.
I was thinking yesterday what this country would look like if people did not so easily brush off harassment and abuse—if people cannot be bothered to care about the women themselves they might realize that men who use their power in this way will do it, in some way or another, to everyone. (Immediately, no Thomas, Kavanaugh, Trump, half his cabinet, massive donors disgraced.)
Yes! Let's not forget, Justice Kavanaugh has credible accusations of sexual aggression against him, so does Justice Thomas.
Neither should have been elevated to the highest court of the land! Tragically, Justice Clarence Thomas, that is in large part due to choices Joe Biden made as a US Senator.
Yes. Saw a woman's post yesterday wondering about the impact of Summer's and his cronies on the academic careers of countless women students and junior faculty. How the culture of an institution is shaped by having Epstein listers at the top, for a generation. As a post-academic myself, I've been thinking about the outsize influence Harvard has on my own field, and wondering...
And that's just academia. There are so many other industries and professions and institutions. The jaw drops.
We hold every last one of these b*stards accountable. Every. Last. One.
Believe women? Ghislaine Maxwell, not so much. But I believe this woman who recounts the abuse she suffered at the hands of Trump as a 13 year old. Let us remember that Trump already is an adjudicated rapist!
The phrase "believe women" is used in the context of survivors telling their stories. Ghislaine is an adjudicated rapist too, we don't believe her under any circumstances.
Our society has deeply-rooted issues with racism and sexism. I hold firm that deep within MAGA is a belief that the Epstein women (and all women for that matter) are responsible for their own disasters and abuses (original sin?) The public-face rage over women and girls being abused is convenient and admirable. They can face themselves in the mirror when they force themselves into that advocacy role.
You don't care about women and girls and let them bleed out in parking lots and tell them a slap in the face is no reason to call the police on your husband/boyfriend.
I am listening to MAGA Mikey drone on now for how long? I can't believe what a condescending, sanctomonious, lying twat he is. He's such a fucking child-man.
"Our society has deeply-rooted issues .... " Period.
I remember reading about this back in 2015 or 2016, I think in Mother Jones. It chilled me to the bone.
I just watched this as well. I did not know any of the details of this story, nor did I know she had made a video testimony. It is unfortunate that the media has neglected her story and that of the other victims. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Melanie Stansbury mentioned it in Congress this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye2bP9_LwXg
Thank you Deborah for the link. I just watched Stansbury. Wonderful.
Who is this “Katie Johnson” ? I of course believe her? Why is no one mentioning her and helping her come forward?
Excellent! Way to go, Rep. Stansbury – keep the focus and turn up the heat!
Where is this woman? I am so heart broken for her. I have not watched the video yet but don’t really need to. Has she been silenced? Can we help her?
Simon, I’m wondering about the TX elections. Colin Allred says he’s neck and neck with Paxton. Talarico is a new, fresh, and more engaged with voters candidate, and Crockett is considering running for the same seat. While I wish they would all run for different positions I am unsure who has the best chance. I’ve held off contributions to anyone waiting to see what Crockett decides. Would love your take!
It's why we are supporting the Texas Party. So whomever prevails has a strong general election campaign ready to go.
I realize I may be sticking my head in the lion's mouth, but I can't help but notice you didn't answer the implied question. As a Texan, I'm rather curious to hear your thoughts on the matter as well, though given your past comments, I can understand your reticence. While I admire and respect your commitment to internal neutrality, I feel obligated to point out that you wouldn't be taking sides by answering, and speaking on behalf of the community, we wouldn't think you were.
So, with all due respect: Who do you feel has the best chance in the primary as of today?
I have no idea who the better candidate is. That's why we have primaries. The better candidate usually emerges from the rough and tumble. They are both very candidates.
Fair enough. Thank you for indulging me, sir.
Each is a great candidate. I would hope as you say they can each find a position somewhere. I think Crockett is great in the House already.
similarly, I would love to retain both Doggett and Casar
Oh, okay. My mindset is so naturally to give to candidates I didn’t think of that. Got it!
(Just going to leave this here again, as I feel it relevant to the question.)
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000019a-5ce8-dfdd-af9b-7cf9bb350000
Very interesting - thanks Wyatt. Though I’m not totally surprised. Allred just doesn’t get around the state much and Talarico does and goes on Fox and other news outlets and he has a demeanor that is engaging - like Pete Buttigieg
indeed - that is a choice I wish were avoidable. We need all of the energy, commitment and courage exhibited by each of these extraordinary candidates!
Thanks for the great and very important article by Garrett. Unfortunately, it's horrendous in Memphis and very few are covering/talking about it. I was on a MoveOn call last night, and a leader from BLM Memphis described how teams of every level of law enforcement/immigration are working in tandem, pulling people over for minor infractions and terrorizing folks just trying to live their lives. It's a majority Black city with a storied history. It's one of my favorite cities, and what's being done to its citizens is just unforgivable. We need to support them however we can, and bring pressure to the pro-democracy movement to stand with them & to cover this story.
Another great episode of the American Revolution last night--we learned about the awful hardships experienced by the Patriots, and how continuous pressure led to an inflection point in which the Declaration was a necessity.
Looking forward to the vote today at 1:30. Accountability is the name of the game. I mentioned that yesterday. We can't wait till the midterms -- we don't know how things will turn out, and we have to use the tools at our disposal. Rep. Garcia and Rep. Khanna and Rep. Lee and so many on the Oversight Committee have proved this point. Don't back down. Don't let up. And ensure our House & Senate Dems do the same. And if they don't, we vote them out.
Shannon Watts (founder of Moms Demand Action) used to say "we'll have your support or we'll have your jobs." Bingo.
Keep going!
I called my R representative and let him know which way I expect him to vote on the Epstein files. I'm still working on voter reg postcards for Alaska.
It does seem like there is a retreat across many fronts. What would be fascinating is a pullback from the attacks on the ACA. Without Trump leading "policy", who is going to do it and what is it going to look like? It's hard for me to believe there is any muscle-memory for leadership left in the GOP.
They've always been followers of whoever the leader is, but they never take the kneepads off these days, unless they are ready or willing to retire. They also don't actually care about people, this is all self-preservation mode.
That picture of him does have a Dorian Gray vibe, doesn't it?
Trump is the horror story where he thinks he is Dorian Grey, but in fact he is the portrait.
Doesn't he eventually look like the painting at the end? Maybe I've forgotten the story, it has been many years.
Absolute yes to using active voice and clear language, not passive voice, to describe what those venal quislings are doing.
That image wins the next Pulitzer. The symbolism!
He's walking with the same hunched-over, whipped-dog posture he had walking beside Putin in Helsinki.
100% and while they must be held accountable for all of it, the ICE raids that have been unconscionably cruel and extreme, really must be answered for. They are totally unnecessary and done solely to terrify and must be dealt with severely IMHO.
From the bottom to the top, every last one of them. No excuses, no exceptions.
ICE has to be done as an agency. There is no coming back from this abomination.
Perhaps we'll get comprehensive immigration reform out of this, in time?
Yesterday my son came home and told me that the boy sitting next to him in social studies started talking about the threat of ICE raids in Wake and Durham counties (NC; my son is in 8th grade). He told my son that his parents are in the final stages of legalizing their status but that they are terrified. My son and I have talked about this a lot, but hearing it from a classmate really brought it home to him. I am just sick to my soul that all this is happening. My son was kind of traumatized about imagining coming home to find me vanished -- and for him this is just an act of the imagination. I am enraged and heartsick all at once, and I will unleash on Tillis and Budd when I get done typing this.
And boy, if Stephen Miller wanted to absolutely tank the GOP in NC, he couldn't pick a better way to do it! The images of what is happening in Charlotte are all over the place and it is not playing well with anyone.
G’morning all. I’m heading out to a county board of supervisors meeting to speak as a citizen in support of county action to provide shelter for our homeless population. Winter approaches. And to set up a meeting with a democratic candidate for state senate who is speaking out about statewide wildfire management policy — I’m writing a series of articles about the devastating situation of homeowners’ insurance, locally. Figured I’d plug a local Democrat here in blood-red bastion of lily white inland California.
Simon, I promise to send a little piece of my next retirement check to bolster our initiative to expand Democratic outreach into the hinterlands. I wish I had more to give.
Hi Emily - I always wish I had more to give too, but knowing who to give money to after vetting from Simon has made donating much more meaningful for me. Helping the candidates and causes that need the money, and then watching them succeed, has been such a great feeling!
Together our little donations add up to a lot!
I think that is some ways the health care system is broken. It is insanely expensive and we need, as Bernie reminds us over and over Medicare for all or national health insurance just like all other developed countries. We do not have enough doctors because the med schools control how many can become doctors. The insurance companies and big pharma get the big bucks and we get less than stellar health care and worse outcomes than many countries.
Becoming a doctor or a health care administrator should not be a sure road to becoming a millionaire. But trying to fix this has always met with resistance as Hillary Clinton found out and as Obama found out with ACA which was the absolutely best he could get through. The GOP has always stood in the way of getting any of this accomplished. Death panels they screamed about ACA and yet they are the very ones creating the death panels with the draconian big ugly bill. We know someone who is losing their access to dialysis because of the cuts to Medicaid. That is a death sentence. Thanks to the GOP. I wrote to Sen. Tillis about this but I have heard crickets.
Republicans broke our health care system. It is not broken. Our opponent isn't abstract concepts like oligarchy, or greed, or higher prices. It is Republicans.
That's what Leader Jeffries said this morning in an MS Now interview (listened only bc they were interviewing him). Language is important -- clear language, not euphemism and passive voice. As a person w MFA in nonfiction writing, I concur!
I agree with who is responsible. The GOP has always blocked what needs to be done.
Becoming a physician is NOT a sure road to becoming a millionaire. The cost of medical school is astounding. You cannot begin to earn $ until residency, and then you are not well paid. When you finally begin to practice, most physicians are paying off huge loans for years. These are very intelligent folks who could have been making lots of $ in finance. And if you are an internist or family practitioner or a pediatrician, you are NOT earning big money. Sorry, but this is personal. We have many challenges in our healthcare system. But physicians are retiring early because it is so stressful. And GOD forbid you are a physician/scientist since they just cut all the funding for research.
I am in agreement it is more the management that makes big bucks and the cost of education is the problem. It should not break the bank. I am well aware of what it takes and how onerous it can be. I apologize if I implied all doctors are well off. I know that is not true. As Bernie often points out going to school should either be free or reasonable. Med school is not as I am well aware. If you end schooling owing 200K or more, it will take years to make a reasonable living. That is also a problem that should not exist for people who seek to help others.
Just got home from 3 nights in “war ravaged Portland” (lol) and even though I used transit and ran around to all my favorite places, I saw no ICE activity and no helicopters overhead. Best I could tell they’ve chilled out there too except for right around the ICE office building and I guess targeted abductions that happen randomly. Everywhere I went seemed completely normal and safe.
Hi all, Any Vermont folks out there working on Resolutions of Condemnation? We are a small group of elders hoping to find others who are working on this idea. Thanks.
Great work, Simon. I'd nominate that photograph of the returning Dear Leader for a Pulitzer in Photography. The crumpled flag on the ground, the burnt sienna makeup, the posture of a broken old man, it is all there.
Simon, did you see Dan Pfeiffer today? I’d even take that backhanded complement as a confirming win. Congratulations!
Not a follower of Dan's. Feel free to share.....
Just looking at the piece. I think my first "Trump coalition is falling apart" piece came in June or July.
Here is a Denver Post story about collapsing support for Trump in Colorado: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/17/colorado-latinos-poll-immigration-crackdown-trump-affordability/?
Colorado CD-08 (Gabe Evans - R) is much more vulnerable in 2026. We will work hard to flip this seat.
See “The 2025 Warning Sign” in this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/messagebox/p/is-2025-the-beginning-of-the-end?r=3kmas&utm_medium=ios.
Seems to join the naysayers until his one word paragraph, “Nope!” then he channels you.
Take a lap, Mr. Rosenberg.
I can't see most of it, but given the words "liberal fantasy" appear within the first 10 words, I can guess as to the general tone and "backhanded compliment." Congratulations indeed, sir.