And let's all keep hammering them on their odious corruption as well. This news about the ridiculous number of stock trades Trump has made this year is gold dust on that front. Low hanging fruit that Dems can easily call out every chance they get.
Heard about this organization the other day. May be worth checking out and keeping an eye on for tips, ideas, and inspiration to move the MAGAs in our lives to the other side (ie America) where they belong, so we can not just beat MAGA, but annihilate it beyond recovery, begin recovering our reputation in the world, and make the changes necessary to ensure nothing like MAGA can or will ever rise again (starting with an originalist rollback of the Supreme Court to 1789)
In a terrifying way, the defeat of Senator Bill Cassidy in Louisiana’s Republican primary underscores Trump’s iron-grip control of the MAGA-Fascist party that the Republican Party has transmogrified into. His dwindling base of voters continue to do his bidding. No dissent is tolerated – and Mad King Donald can be relied on to never forget a grudge.
It’s quite frightening, really, and it underscores how absolutely critical it is to build a massive Blue Tsunami in November’s Midterm Elections. As Simon underscores, we need to continue ensuring Democratic victories also in every special election / ordinary election between now and November!
Shocked Senator Cassidy not only lost, but came in third. Well, he goes out and leaves behind his vote for Robert Kennedy, Jr. I wonder if he feels any responsibility or guilt over the disastrous effects of RFK, Jr. Shameful.
I think it helps us, in so far as no candidate can distance themselves from his wildly unpopular agenda.
They all have to tow the line, give him an A for everything and then go home and face their voters, having taken all these terrible positions and then try and justify them!
We are nearing the K-Pg boundary of the Republican Party. But unlike the non-avian dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period, the Republicans are hastening their own extinction. It may take more than one event, but the First Big Meteor is coming for them in November 2026.
HE IS A TRAITOR NOT A PRESIDENT: It is time to de-legitimize trumpi, as he stumbles and fumbles into the depths of his personal gilt loony-bin. The military should no long obey him or his toady appointees. Employees of the federal government should no longer obey or support him. He is a convicted felon. He is an impeached official. He is an outlaw, and should no longer be obeyed.
Most likely DJT and his subordinates are celebrating the Ebola outbreak simply because predominately non-white people are dying. That type of population control is yet another example of pathologically driven and racist "Culling of the Herd." We can no longer tolerate such criminal policies and actions. 169 days and counting!
As we all recognize from recent history, epidemics can become pandemics and do not respect borders or racial stereotypes. Anyone gloating at this tragedy is an idiot.
Seems like we are dealing with what is happening in a much too rational way. Trump is a seriously sick man mentally and physically just listen to what Dr John Gartner said in his last You Tube. It is scary but it is reality. If Joe Biden or any other President did what Trump has done and is doing the 25th Amendment would have been invoked months ago. News agencies must report the truth that many Clinical Psychologists have been screaming about before it is too late. Maybe Hopium can lead the way with Midas Touch?
I'm sick of the coverage that Cassidy's defeat proves Trump's power. What sticks in my mind is Cassidy's attempt to get RFKjr to support vaccines by working to give Trump the Nobel prize for his development of the Covid vaccine. How does working to give someone a Nobel prize make someone a critic? Cassidy must have felt very highly of Trump in order to give him a Nobel prize. I think that the lesson is that no matter how much you try to suck up to Trump, in the end you will get burned. Trump does not care about you or anyone. Besides, the Trump endorsed candidate got less than 50% of the MAGA vote. Rather than Trump strength, the Louisiana vote indicates a splintering and weakening of MAGA even in the reddest of states.
The narrative that “trump is still a kingmaker in the GOP; don’t cross him or you’ll lose your primary” is really getting stale.
What was the voter turnout in this election? How many voters stayed home rather than bothering to choose between 3 losers: an incumbent who profoundly failed the country by saddling us with RFK Jr and two MAGA sycophants?
I'm sick of the corporate media calling him a "master communicator," as part of their relentless resistance is futile strategy. *Reagan* was a master communicator. In 1980 he flipped *12* Senate seats, knocking off a whole series of Dem titans including George McGovern, Frank Church, Birch Bayh, Warren Magnuson, and Gaylord Nelson, and 34 seats in the House. After 8 years, he was still up up 17 in the House vs where where Carter was. Trump's coattails have been consistently shorter than most parts of his anatomy. Reagan won two electoral & popular vote landslides and set up his VP to be one of only 4 in history to be directly elected as his successor. Trump lost the popular vote twice, "won" the third by 1.4% with less than half the vote. Reagan's *average* approval rating was 53%. Trump’s has *never reached* 50%. Reagan: Tear down this wall! Trump: Cofefe. Trump’s not a communicator at all; g//_e's a cult leader
Simon, thank you for including news from Ukraine and the success its brave president and his people are having going deep into the Russian heartland. With its arsenal of drones, Ukraine continues to give Vlad the Invader the middle finger and it couldn't happen to a more deserving one of the lunatic in the White House's heroes (or violin players).
In other news not related to the defeat of Dr. William Cassidy, last night the people of Louisiana soundly and convincingly rejected all 5 of the constitutional amendments on the ballot proposed by our governor and Drumpf sycophant, Jeff Landry. For the second year in a row, Louisiana voters delivered a stunning defeat to Landry by rejecting a slate of constitutional amendments he supported. Note that #3 and #4 on yesterday's ballot were soundly rejected last year.
In response to Callais, the governor declared a bogus state of emergency that allowed him to negate the portion of the ballot dealing with the House of Representatives, thereby making the 42,000 early votes cast for that portion of the ballot null and void. This "emergency" resulted in the legislature rush to eliminate one of the two majority-minority congressional districts. Clearly, all of these actions pissed off a lot of voters and they delivered a slap down to the governor by rejecting all of the amendments.
Sometimes, the voters of Louisiana can deliver some pleasant surprises. Just ask Drumpf when he came to the state to campaign against Democrat John Bel Edwards (no relation to the former Edwin Edwards) in his gubernatorial reelection campaign in 2019. Governor Edwards won and the governor delivered a genteel Southern putdown to Drumpf when speaking to his supporters after he won: "And as for the president, God bless his heart."
SW, thank you for the providing the link to the sermonette Mr Carmese delivered in the Senate chamber in Baton Rouge. His 2.5 minute speech should be distributed widely. This is an example of an outraged citizen speaking truth to power and telling it like it is.
Glad to see the cowardly Cassidy lose his seat. He could have saved the country from RFKJr, but he chose his position in the senate over his morals. How did that work out for you senator?
Ebola virus can't be cured by drinking raw milk and doing pushups?
Bill Cassidy is a waste of space. The next Senator looks like she would've voted against certification of the 2020 election. But Cassidy wasn't willing to use the power he had for the public good anyhow.
Still working on post carding. I have connected with a few people and a paid campaign worker for David Jolly, so I'll be getting more involved in the campaign starting with canvassing on May 30.
Haven't self-reported in a while. Like all Saturdays, we held a protest yesterday at one of the two Citizens Bank branches in our area (we alternate weeks). Various experts' note: there are no numbers that justify building a prison system larger than the entire current federal system unless you intend to have a police state. Trump cannot be given that tool.
Like all weeks, we had a few first-time protesters. (Had first timers in our recent state lobbying day too.) We also had a few people feeling deflated. Shortened response: he wins if we give up, so no, we won't.
As a grassroots organizer, I was glad to hear Simon talk last week about state legislatures. We made a big mistake not focusing there. We had 6 Dem trifectas after the 2016 elections to GOP's 25. We improved to 14 in 2018, 17 in 2024, down to 16 now. I've been a small donor to the DLCC and some friends are involved in the States Project (https://statesproject.org). DLCC's recent emails talk about adding 4 more Dem trifectas this year. I'd love some Hopium direction in this area.
I'm responsible for a weekly newsletter to our local group, which always includes state legislative advocacy and this sentence (inspired by Indivisible direction right after the 2024 election): Blue states can pass laws that protect us, our institutions, and democracy, and that advance policies showing what effective government can do.
On that note, the MA Senate finally (after a decade+ pushing) passed an immigrant protection bill. It's not law yet, but so many speeches were compelling. If you need inspiration to keep working, listen to Vanna Howard, our first Cambodian-American senator, who came to America as a refugee, the first speaker on Part 2 (https://malegislature.gov/Events/Sessions/Detail/7698/Video2), and on Part 1 at 1 hour, 14 minutes, is Lydia Edwards, state senator and JAG office. (have Kleenex)
I've spent some time and several cafe chats on expanding the coalition to help with whatever we end up doing on June 14, July 17-19, on voter registration, etc. Also helping the MA North Shore folks on their handout for the Mass Dems convention about the resolutions project.
Simon, thanks for all of the updates. I will strategically donate to certain candidates, as you suggest. I am so saddened and disgusted that the Ebola outbreak is worse because Trump pulled the USA out of WHO. Which organizations can citizens like myself donate to in order to help contain and stop this outbreak?
Yep, they all deserve to share the blame. Special venom is being directed at Cassidy because of his medical background and as an advocate for childhood vaccination. In my view he's a poster child for putting lust for political power above citizen wellbeing.
Yes Simon, great post today!!!
And let's all keep hammering them on their odious corruption as well. This news about the ridiculous number of stock trades Trump has made this year is gold dust on that front. Low hanging fruit that Dems can easily call out every chance they get.
I agree!
https://leavingmaga.org/
Heard about this organization the other day. May be worth checking out and keeping an eye on for tips, ideas, and inspiration to move the MAGAs in our lives to the other side (ie America) where they belong, so we can not just beat MAGA, but annihilate it beyond recovery, begin recovering our reputation in the world, and make the changes necessary to ensure nothing like MAGA can or will ever rise again (starting with an originalist rollback of the Supreme Court to 1789)
Thanks for the tip. Fascinating.
In a terrifying way, the defeat of Senator Bill Cassidy in Louisiana’s Republican primary underscores Trump’s iron-grip control of the MAGA-Fascist party that the Republican Party has transmogrified into. His dwindling base of voters continue to do his bidding. No dissent is tolerated – and Mad King Donald can be relied on to never forget a grudge.
It’s quite frightening, really, and it underscores how absolutely critical it is to build a massive Blue Tsunami in November’s Midterm Elections. As Simon underscores, we need to continue ensuring Democratic victories also in every special election / ordinary election between now and November!
Georgia on my mind!
Shocked Senator Cassidy not only lost, but came in third. Well, he goes out and leaves behind his vote for Robert Kennedy, Jr. I wonder if he feels any responsibility or guilt over the disastrous effects of RFK, Jr. Shameful.
I think it helps us, in so far as no candidate can distance themselves from his wildly unpopular agenda.
They all have to tow the line, give him an A for everything and then go home and face their voters, having taken all these terrible positions and then try and justify them!
Unfortunately, this being Louisiana, the state will elect someone far worse than Cassidy.
I don't mean Louisiana per se, more in general.
But it makes sense. They are losing moderates and further concentrating the crazy. This was always going to happen.
We are nearing the K-Pg boundary of the Republican Party. But unlike the non-avian dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period, the Republicans are hastening their own extinction. It may take more than one event, but the First Big Meteor is coming for them in November 2026.
Thank you again for the information on HR 2913. It will go in our local Indivisible newsletter with a call to contact members of Congress.
only 27% approve of the felon's handling of the economy? MAGA is breaking away on this issue now.
HE IS A TRAITOR NOT A PRESIDENT: It is time to de-legitimize trumpi, as he stumbles and fumbles into the depths of his personal gilt loony-bin. The military should no long obey him or his toady appointees. Employees of the federal government should no longer obey or support him. He is a convicted felon. He is an impeached official. He is an outlaw, and should no longer be obeyed.
Most likely DJT and his subordinates are celebrating the Ebola outbreak simply because predominately non-white people are dying. That type of population control is yet another example of pathologically driven and racist "Culling of the Herd." We can no longer tolerate such criminal policies and actions. 169 days and counting!
As we all recognize from recent history, epidemics can become pandemics and do not respect borders or racial stereotypes. Anyone gloating at this tragedy is an idiot.
First do no harm
I always wondered how the soon to be former Senator of Louisiana could reconcile his Hippocratic oath with his hypocrisy
The numbers of lives lost due to the GOP actions is staggering
Seems like we are dealing with what is happening in a much too rational way. Trump is a seriously sick man mentally and physically just listen to what Dr John Gartner said in his last You Tube. It is scary but it is reality. If Joe Biden or any other President did what Trump has done and is doing the 25th Amendment would have been invoked months ago. News agencies must report the truth that many Clinical Psychologists have been screaming about before it is too late. Maybe Hopium can lead the way with Midas Touch?
I'm sick of the coverage that Cassidy's defeat proves Trump's power. What sticks in my mind is Cassidy's attempt to get RFKjr to support vaccines by working to give Trump the Nobel prize for his development of the Covid vaccine. How does working to give someone a Nobel prize make someone a critic? Cassidy must have felt very highly of Trump in order to give him a Nobel prize. I think that the lesson is that no matter how much you try to suck up to Trump, in the end you will get burned. Trump does not care about you or anyone. Besides, the Trump endorsed candidate got less than 50% of the MAGA vote. Rather than Trump strength, the Louisiana vote indicates a splintering and weakening of MAGA even in the reddest of states.
The narrative that “trump is still a kingmaker in the GOP; don’t cross him or you’ll lose your primary” is really getting stale.
What was the voter turnout in this election? How many voters stayed home rather than bothering to choose between 3 losers: an incumbent who profoundly failed the country by saddling us with RFK Jr and two MAGA sycophants?
yes, my question too
I'm sick of the corporate media calling him a "master communicator," as part of their relentless resistance is futile strategy. *Reagan* was a master communicator. In 1980 he flipped *12* Senate seats, knocking off a whole series of Dem titans including George McGovern, Frank Church, Birch Bayh, Warren Magnuson, and Gaylord Nelson, and 34 seats in the House. After 8 years, he was still up up 17 in the House vs where where Carter was. Trump's coattails have been consistently shorter than most parts of his anatomy. Reagan won two electoral & popular vote landslides and set up his VP to be one of only 4 in history to be directly elected as his successor. Trump lost the popular vote twice, "won" the third by 1.4% with less than half the vote. Reagan's *average* approval rating was 53%. Trump’s has *never reached* 50%. Reagan: Tear down this wall! Trump: Cofefe. Trump’s not a communicator at all; g//_e's a cult leader
The guy can barely string a coherent sentence together.
And I don't think that is hyperbole.
Simon, thank you for including news from Ukraine and the success its brave president and his people are having going deep into the Russian heartland. With its arsenal of drones, Ukraine continues to give Vlad the Invader the middle finger and it couldn't happen to a more deserving one of the lunatic in the White House's heroes (or violin players).
In other news not related to the defeat of Dr. William Cassidy, last night the people of Louisiana soundly and convincingly rejected all 5 of the constitutional amendments on the ballot proposed by our governor and Drumpf sycophant, Jeff Landry. For the second year in a row, Louisiana voters delivered a stunning defeat to Landry by rejecting a slate of constitutional amendments he supported. Note that #3 and #4 on yesterday's ballot were soundly rejected last year.
In response to Callais, the governor declared a bogus state of emergency that allowed him to negate the portion of the ballot dealing with the House of Representatives, thereby making the 42,000 early votes cast for that portion of the ballot null and void. This "emergency" resulted in the legislature rush to eliminate one of the two majority-minority congressional districts. Clearly, all of these actions pissed off a lot of voters and they delivered a slap down to the governor by rejecting all of the amendments.
Sometimes, the voters of Louisiana can deliver some pleasant surprises. Just ask Drumpf when he came to the state to campaign against Democrat John Bel Edwards (no relation to the former Edwin Edwards) in his gubernatorial reelection campaign in 2019. Governor Edwards won and the governor delivered a genteel Southern putdown to Drumpf when speaking to his supporters after he won: "And as for the president, God bless his heart."
thanks so much for updating us on this.
just ran across 2 1/2 mins. of statement by Marshawn Camese to state senate you've probably seen
https://nitter.poast.org/TheRoot/status/2054698203489214848#m
plus a n 18 sec. wnderful coda
https://nitter.poast.org/swd2/status/2055425287584645472#m
SW, thank you for the providing the link to the sermonette Mr Carmese delivered in the Senate chamber in Baton Rouge. His 2.5 minute speech should be distributed widely. This is an example of an outraged citizen speaking truth to power and telling it like it is.
Glad to see the cowardly Cassidy lose his seat. He could have saved the country from RFKJr, but he chose his position in the senate over his morals. How did that work out for you senator?
Nothing warms my heart more than an ass-kisser getting their comeuppance from the one they smooched
I'd feel a lot better if he lost his license to practice medicine.
Ebola virus can't be cured by drinking raw milk and doing pushups?
Bill Cassidy is a waste of space. The next Senator looks like she would've voted against certification of the 2020 election. But Cassidy wasn't willing to use the power he had for the public good anyhow.
Still working on post carding. I have connected with a few people and a paid campaign worker for David Jolly, so I'll be getting more involved in the campaign starting with canvassing on May 30.
Nope. Only cure for Ebola: dunking yourself in the bacteria-infested waters of Rock Creek Park, or chugging down a gallon jug of Hudson River Water.
From your lips to Trump's ears
Haven't self-reported in a while. Like all Saturdays, we held a protest yesterday at one of the two Citizens Bank branches in our area (we alternate weeks). Various experts' note: there are no numbers that justify building a prison system larger than the entire current federal system unless you intend to have a police state. Trump cannot be given that tool.
Like all weeks, we had a few first-time protesters. (Had first timers in our recent state lobbying day too.) We also had a few people feeling deflated. Shortened response: he wins if we give up, so no, we won't.
As a grassroots organizer, I was glad to hear Simon talk last week about state legislatures. We made a big mistake not focusing there. We had 6 Dem trifectas after the 2016 elections to GOP's 25. We improved to 14 in 2018, 17 in 2024, down to 16 now. I've been a small donor to the DLCC and some friends are involved in the States Project (https://statesproject.org). DLCC's recent emails talk about adding 4 more Dem trifectas this year. I'd love some Hopium direction in this area.
I'm responsible for a weekly newsletter to our local group, which always includes state legislative advocacy and this sentence (inspired by Indivisible direction right after the 2024 election): Blue states can pass laws that protect us, our institutions, and democracy, and that advance policies showing what effective government can do.
On that note, the MA Senate finally (after a decade+ pushing) passed an immigrant protection bill. It's not law yet, but so many speeches were compelling. If you need inspiration to keep working, listen to Vanna Howard, our first Cambodian-American senator, who came to America as a refugee, the first speaker on Part 2 (https://malegislature.gov/Events/Sessions/Detail/7698/Video2), and on Part 1 at 1 hour, 14 minutes, is Lydia Edwards, state senator and JAG office. (have Kleenex)
I've spent some time and several cafe chats on expanding the coalition to help with whatever we end up doing on June 14, July 17-19, on voter registration, etc. Also helping the MA North Shore folks on their handout for the Mass Dems convention about the resolutions project.
Thank you for all that you are doing, really inspiring. I'm also glad to hear about the push for more control of state legislatures.
Simon, thanks for all of the updates. I will strategically donate to certain candidates, as you suggest. I am so saddened and disgusted that the Ebola outbreak is worse because Trump pulled the USA out of WHO. Which organizations can citizens like myself donate to in order to help contain and stop this outbreak?
Agree w all of these points regarding Cassidy and RFK. I would add that ALL of the Senate Repubs who voted to confirm RFK also share the blame.
Yep, they all deserve to share the blame. Special venom is being directed at Cassidy because of his medical background and as an advocate for childhood vaccination. In my view he's a poster child for putting lust for political power above citizen wellbeing.