lol, but I give them no credit for any intelligence. watched that guy interviewing trumpists who insisted that in CA, the infamous 'they' are performing abortions 4 weeks after birth. You can't make this stupidity up.
I don’t think it’s going to be so easy. Rachel Maddow reported that he has placed MAGAts in election-oversight positions in more than 20 red states. Their job is to refuse to certify results and throw our election into chaos. I hope President Biden is working to prevent this now.
Like Mary Duffy said, you left off that Trump has plans to circumvent the election certification process if he loses the votes. Now he's telling voters he doesn't need their votes. Why would he say that unless he is going to make sure he gets installed as fuhrer regardless of the vote? Michael - would you please use your resources to shed light on this because if he plans a silent coup, none of the Kamala frenzy will matter. Especially since the SCOTUS backstop will install him as Dictator for life if it comes to that. tks Michael for all you do for this country.
100 pct. Look how he reacted to an older rich white guy beating him. His head will pop if Kamala beats him. I sure hope the Dems are ready for the shenanigans the Magats are going to push forward about how the election is rigged again. So tired of those traitors.
Please be sure to write about voter suppression, early voting, mail in ballots, protecting poll workers. We have to be organized on ALL these fronts. I've already written and mailed between 400-500 postcards urging people to get registered and vote. I write with Blue Wave out of Boulder. ALSO, Trump is already organizing Congress NOT to certify the election, how to deal with that?!! So many bases to cover. Thanks for all you do. Louise Mann Springfield, MO.
All those people who hate what Trump stands for need to show up at the polls. I have heard of people objecting to Harris for one reason or another. They dont seem to realize that politics is not like going to the grocery store, where you get everything on your list and go home happy. Politics is compromise; we choose the candidate who most approximates what we believe in. No one candidate is going to line up 100% with our beliefs.
Yes Trump will loose the popular vote again, which they know. They also found out in 2020 that micro-targeting doesn't always guarantee a win in the Electoral College. So they plan to use the Gore/Bush play book and let the S/C decide; which they already have stacked in their favor. They are so sure they will prevail that they have written a 900 page implementation plan (do you think we have a similar plan?). Yes we have 94 days to get the vote out, but why not use the last 5 months of the Biden Presidency to incarcerate the people that are openly trying to overthrow our government. The president, as an Official Duty, can declare a state of emergency (thanks to Patriot ACT 2), identify enemy combatants (all well documented and indicted), and utilize the Insurrection Act of 1807 to incarcerate the bad actors until the judicial system can deal with them appropriately. Why not fight the enemy on our terms when we have the power to do so, rather than fight them in the streets next year when they have the power.
Dems have never shown the capacity to use the power when they have it if it makes them look like the bad guys. Biden shud have done more against the scotus in his first 2 years when he had both houses.
Defeating Trump won't change a thing. The entire political system of the United States is irretrievably corrupt. Nothing will change until we get the money out of politics.
My name is Ted Martin. I just finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
Michel , just saw you with Ari Melber WoW are you right ! Trump the insult to Chickens is scared out of his mind to debate Kamala because he knows he’s not nearly as intelligent or accomplished as her he has Nothing to say except the nonsense he Allways spews !hope you saw what Rachael Madow said last night I think Trump is extremely dangerous and we must never underestimate his evil when he Says the crazy stuff like if people vote for him you won’t have to vote again he’s not kidding Rachael Madow said Trumps got at least 70 extra poll workers to make sure the Votes THEY want are counted let’s keep,our eyes on him cause he’s going to havr a nuclear Toddler fit god willing whennKamala wins !
Thank you. We know Trump works in "CODES" and when he says "you don't need to vote for me" means he is going to cheat! I believe he will do something that prevents any voting and he will take over by some evil way. Please respond giving me information that we can really vote. Thank you. Roger Shaff
Never think djt is unaware. Unwise, uneducated, untalented, untruthful all apply. Why did Nut&yahoo bother with paying him a visit, then, quite obviously, go home to Israel and okay the assassination of Haniyeh? Does tanking the peace talks in an effort to make Biden/Harris look bad come to mind? Always remember that authoritarians go first to "eliminating" problems, not actually solving them. Then. they create other problems as diversions. djt and nut&yahoo are both under the gun and will do almost anything to eliminate their foes, they are both facing serious jail time. I suspect this is Pootins stupid solution, and he's not really concerned with how it actually plays out. At this point Iran may well work with the Saudis and whichever mercenaries are deemed the most likely to succeed in eliminating nut&yahoo. Pootin just wants confusion in the Middle East. djt only MAY be able to politically capitalize on this, and bibi MAY not get himself shot, but it all is just so much fun for vlad. Don't you think vlad sees his prospects sinking? He's already had to go begging to China and North Korea.
He's taken to conscripting the citizens of other countries for cannon fodder. This hoped for confusion might help get djt back in the WH, but, as much as I doubt it will work, I also do not doubt that this is their backs to the wall plan. Sorry ass mofos!
There's the MM we know. I have been waiting for some indication that you feel confident the Dems can win this next election. You inspire me and fill me with hope.
All of those compelling stats -- (must have required a good deal of research from you and your staff, much appreciated, too) -- really drove your point home.
I continue to read your Substack and listen to your podcast with great enthusiasm and interest.
Please stop about Gaza, Michael. You seem to be forgetting the horror of the attack, and who started this war. You and so many others are unable to answer the question of: "How would YOU have responded if that had been YOUR sister, mother, wife, daughter - who was butchered on 10/7?' Do you think Israel should have played nice in the sandbox? The horror Hamas inflicted on Israel on that day was worse, even, than what the Nazis did. Hamas not only hates Israel, and Jews, but anything related to the west. Listen to Mossab Hassan Yousef, the Green Prince, Son of Hamas. Hamas wants the west destroyed, they want Sharia and violence. These are the people you are defending.
I can't speak for Michael but I have not heard him defending the slaughter of Israelis. He is speaking out against the massive overkill (literally) response, non-stop, from Netanyahu. So much so that his own citizens are telling him to stop the slaughter.
The problem is also that Netanyahu is inspiring anti- Israeli sentiment across the world. What Hamas did was bestial and what the US is supporting is even more so.: (
I’ve been noticing that there aren’t as many of those stupid pickup truck parades with Trumpolini flags flying.
Maybe his followers are capable of the shame he is not capable of feeling. Be ashamed ye Trumpists.
lol, but I give them no credit for any intelligence. watched that guy interviewing trumpists who insisted that in CA, the infamous 'they' are performing abortions 4 weeks after birth. You can't make this stupidity up.
I don’t think it’s going to be so easy. Rachel Maddow reported that he has placed MAGAts in election-oversight positions in more than 20 red states. Their job is to refuse to certify results and throw our election into chaos. I hope President Biden is working to prevent this now.
What a horrible way to deal with losing an election!
Like Mary Duffy said, you left off that Trump has plans to circumvent the election certification process if he loses the votes. Now he's telling voters he doesn't need their votes. Why would he say that unless he is going to make sure he gets installed as fuhrer regardless of the vote? Michael - would you please use your resources to shed light on this because if he plans a silent coup, none of the Kamala frenzy will matter. Especially since the SCOTUS backstop will install him as Dictator for life if it comes to that. tks Michael for all you do for this country.
Trump will not handle losing to Kamala very well!
100 pct. Look how he reacted to an older rich white guy beating him. His head will pop if Kamala beats him. I sure hope the Dems are ready for the shenanigans the Magats are going to push forward about how the election is rigged again. So tired of those traitors.
Please be sure to write about voter suppression, early voting, mail in ballots, protecting poll workers. We have to be organized on ALL these fronts. I've already written and mailed between 400-500 postcards urging people to get registered and vote. I write with Blue Wave out of Boulder. ALSO, Trump is already organizing Congress NOT to certify the election, how to deal with that?!! So many bases to cover. Thanks for all you do. Louise Mann Springfield, MO.
I swear. It is like working for the resistance now. Just to vote and certify an election. I live Ruby red TN. All I can do is vote.
All those people who hate what Trump stands for need to show up at the polls. I have heard of people objecting to Harris for one reason or another. They dont seem to realize that politics is not like going to the grocery store, where you get everything on your list and go home happy. Politics is compromise; we choose the candidate who most approximates what we believe in. No one candidate is going to line up 100% with our beliefs.
My grandma in Palestine will always be on my grocery list
Yes Trump will loose the popular vote again, which they know. They also found out in 2020 that micro-targeting doesn't always guarantee a win in the Electoral College. So they plan to use the Gore/Bush play book and let the S/C decide; which they already have stacked in their favor. They are so sure they will prevail that they have written a 900 page implementation plan (do you think we have a similar plan?). Yes we have 94 days to get the vote out, but why not use the last 5 months of the Biden Presidency to incarcerate the people that are openly trying to overthrow our government. The president, as an Official Duty, can declare a state of emergency (thanks to Patriot ACT 2), identify enemy combatants (all well documented and indicted), and utilize the Insurrection Act of 1807 to incarcerate the bad actors until the judicial system can deal with them appropriately. Why not fight the enemy on our terms when we have the power to do so, rather than fight them in the streets next year when they have the power.
Dems have never shown the capacity to use the power when they have it if it makes them look like the bad guys. Biden shud have done more against the scotus in his first 2 years when he had both houses.
Michael,
Defeating Trump won't change a thing. The entire political system of the United States is irretrievably corrupt. Nothing will change until we get the money out of politics.
My name is Ted Martin. I just finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
If you want a government that actually acts in your best interests, I urge you and everyone you know to read my book as soon as possible. You can get a digital copy of my book free of charge at the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vaMH1riLodzOfQn0kI7ow0RDrPM0NqE/view?usp=sharing
Michel , just saw you with Ari Melber WoW are you right ! Trump the insult to Chickens is scared out of his mind to debate Kamala because he knows he’s not nearly as intelligent or accomplished as her he has Nothing to say except the nonsense he Allways spews !hope you saw what Rachael Madow said last night I think Trump is extremely dangerous and we must never underestimate his evil when he Says the crazy stuff like if people vote for him you won’t have to vote again he’s not kidding Rachael Madow said Trumps got at least 70 extra poll workers to make sure the Votes THEY want are counted let’s keep,our eyes on him cause he’s going to havr a nuclear Toddler fit god willing whennKamala wins !
Thank you. We know Trump works in "CODES" and when he says "you don't need to vote for me" means he is going to cheat! I believe he will do something that prevents any voting and he will take over by some evil way. Please respond giving me information that we can really vote. Thank you. Roger Shaff
Never think djt is unaware. Unwise, uneducated, untalented, untruthful all apply. Why did Nut&yahoo bother with paying him a visit, then, quite obviously, go home to Israel and okay the assassination of Haniyeh? Does tanking the peace talks in an effort to make Biden/Harris look bad come to mind? Always remember that authoritarians go first to "eliminating" problems, not actually solving them. Then. they create other problems as diversions. djt and nut&yahoo are both under the gun and will do almost anything to eliminate their foes, they are both facing serious jail time. I suspect this is Pootins stupid solution, and he's not really concerned with how it actually plays out. At this point Iran may well work with the Saudis and whichever mercenaries are deemed the most likely to succeed in eliminating nut&yahoo. Pootin just wants confusion in the Middle East. djt only MAY be able to politically capitalize on this, and bibi MAY not get himself shot, but it all is just so much fun for vlad. Don't you think vlad sees his prospects sinking? He's already had to go begging to China and North Korea.
He's taken to conscripting the citizens of other countries for cannon fodder. This hoped for confusion might help get djt back in the WH, but, as much as I doubt it will work, I also do not doubt that this is their backs to the wall plan. Sorry ass mofos!
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There's the MM we know. I have been waiting for some indication that you feel confident the Dems can win this next election. You inspire me and fill me with hope.
All of those compelling stats -- (must have required a good deal of research from you and your staff, much appreciated, too) -- really drove your point home.
I continue to read your Substack and listen to your podcast with great enthusiasm and interest.
My absolute favorite and I listen to several.
Thank you, Michael! :-)))))
does kamala want 2 continue the siege of palestine?
She is against more support from what I understand.
Please stop about Gaza, Michael. You seem to be forgetting the horror of the attack, and who started this war. You and so many others are unable to answer the question of: "How would YOU have responded if that had been YOUR sister, mother, wife, daughter - who was butchered on 10/7?' Do you think Israel should have played nice in the sandbox? The horror Hamas inflicted on Israel on that day was worse, even, than what the Nazis did. Hamas not only hates Israel, and Jews, but anything related to the west. Listen to Mossab Hassan Yousef, the Green Prince, Son of Hamas. Hamas wants the west destroyed, they want Sharia and violence. These are the people you are defending.
I can't speak for Michael but I have not heard him defending the slaughter of Israelis. He is speaking out against the massive overkill (literally) response, non-stop, from Netanyahu. So much so that his own citizens are telling him to stop the slaughter.
The problem is also that Netanyahu is inspiring anti- Israeli sentiment across the world. What Hamas did was bestial and what the US is supporting is even more so.: (
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It’s easier to teach a donkey how to dance than to ask Trump to tell the truth.
Thank you