Go Kams! -- By the way, folks, feel free to contact Joe Biden and Judge Juan Merchan, asking them not to pardon Trump, or refuse to give him jail time, or fail to prosecute him to the utmost reasonable extent. https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/share/ ; jmerchan@nycourts.gov . (Addresses to the best of my knowledge; feel free to research further, send paper mail, etc.).Thanks!
I have been wondering the same thing. Did he receive threats? Is that why he allowed Trump to run for president? What sane reason could be behind that decision? I saw that the female employee at Arlington, that was assaulted by a member of Trump's mobmen, did not file charges being afraid of retaliation. After hearing she was female, now I understand the assault and Trump's derogatory comments about this employee being weak minded and not right in the head. Katie Johnson, who was the 13 year old child raped by Trump did try to file charges but withdrew them after receiving death threats. What has our country become?
Jean, I think you must be one of the few brave people that stood up to him. Thank you.
Sadly - the dems will do nothing. If there is one thing I have witnessed in all my years as a Democrat - we talk a lot but lack the spine. Case in point - the very decent and competent Merrick Garland, who sat on his hands for a full two years before even deciding to charge Trump, all the while saying "no one is above the law." All talk - action too little, far too late. And proving that yes, Trump is above the law and will continue to be.
We are not a nation of good people. Trump held up a mirror and saw himself and vice versa. This is the ultimate tragedy.
While I awoke the day after the election to the news that it’s still a man’s world (and a shitty one at that), that the majority of voters cannot fathom a female president, that misogyny continues to run wild, that revenge and not progress is the name of the game, that there are policies in place that will further limit women’s already limited and unequal rights, that the new administration will attempt to dictate who we love or how live our lives, I am more determined to NEVER EVER go back. I can’t change that we lost. But I certainly can refuse to adhere to a defeatist attitude that “waking up” means giving in. Fuck no.
Thanks for this, I totally agree. While I’m feeling overwhelming anger, anxiety, and sadness, I’m also feeling wide awake and as determined as you to NEVER EVER go back. I like the way that you framed it “waking up” doesn’t mean giving up, or giving in. Fuck no and FUCK THEM.
Fasten your seatbelts...to quote Bette Davis. I'm in for the long haul. I think MLK, jr said the fight is not accomplished in one lifetime. Not sure what number I'm on but this incarnation is what I do on this planet now. "My life is my message."
Four years is too long. It will be too late in 2028 because they aren’t leaving. Let’s hope they burn the world down well enough in time to recapture the House and Senate in 2026 and throw his sorry ass out.
POTUS should have fired Merrick Garland’s sorry ass in 2021 when he failed to throw the traitor in jail. POTUS still has two months to throw the traitor’s sorry ass in jail, with impunity according to our esteemed SCOTUS so do it now, before he blows up the world. No kidding. That’s not hyperbole, folks. 😡😡😡
Garland has been such a monumental disappointment. He has helped this country slow-walk into autocracy by not dealing with Trump. Trump is a traitor plain and simple. I want Biden to add two justices to the Supreme Court before he leaves. It would be great if Kamala Harris was one of those. She would be terrific if she would want the job. I think it's right up her alley.
Because it does belong to them and American citizens may never get it back. Unless Democrats play the long game and come up with a smarter strategy that reaches everyone, America is over. Misogyny, racism, and hate have won.
They don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Russia won this election because they have industrialized psychological operations and we have our heads in the sand. The peasantry are too stupid to foster democracy given existing tech infrastructure. That's all there is to it.
Apparently, not. Not one decent Republican politician, not one decent Republican judge connected to SCOTUS or the Trump cases. if there are any Republicans that fail to toe the Party Line, they will be gone.
I suspect we'll be voting again in four years. But I don't think we're going to run another woman that soon after having two lose eight years apart. (Clinton would have won had Jill Stein not taken just enough votes to give Clinton the necessary electoral votes.)
I agree. I think it's going to be at least 20 years before the Dems run another woman (assuming we keep our Democracy). It really scuks that so many people in our country are so backward. As I said somewhere within the last couple of weeks, Joe Biden is the best pres of my lifetime, which began the first summer of the Eisenhower Administration, but that I wouldn't be surprised if Harris surpasses Biden. Now... I'll likely never get to find out.
It must be said that a major part of what made HRC lose was Jill Stein, who received the number of votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and I forget which other state, that would have put Hillary over the top. Stein, who is a neighbor, is a person whose ego is outsized compared to her ability to think clearly, and her sons were quite pissed off at her for running this go-round. But I haven't heard anything that suggests that her absence from this race would have put Kamala Harris over the top.
Jill Stein DID, however, help influence a lot of furious Muslim people in MI to vote against their own self-interest. It’s wild to think that Trump’s actual MUSLIM BAN was just 8 years ago (and it swept plenty of other Arab people along— because what’s the diff to Trump & his cronies?)— yet so many Muslim/Arab US citizens felt fine with punishing the Democrats for Biden’s (wrong-headed, IMO) actions on Gaza, even though Trumpism is likely to lead to an even worse outcome for Palestinians.
I hate what the Israeli government is doing to Gaza. Netanyahu and his fellow super-hawks have been making great progress on their lifelong dream: exterminating the Palestinian people. I regret that Kamala didn’t speak out about the Biden admin’s role in that. I have a feeling that she would’ve made very different moves immediately in January.
Meanwhile, we’ll never know now…and Jill Stein is smugly noting that she sure taught those Dems a lesson.
thanks for this, Maria. You're helping me feel a little better. And, yeah, Netanyahu is Israel's Trump.
As for Stein, she's indirectly responsible for all the Dobbs-related morbidity and mortality among girls and women, but I doubt that's ever occurred to her.
I wish no 3rd party would ever run. I realize our system isn't perfect and it needs to be fixed. But d'n the 3rd party people to HELL for causing the cheato to win. How does the female Russian asset have enough money? Is it stocks or just grifting?
If we had ranked choice voting, it would be reasonable for people to run as third party candidates. If not, if they do anything, they will deprive some often worthy person of being elected, as Jill Stein did to HRC in 2016.
I don't think "backward" is the right word to describe Trump supporters", some words that would apply are: jackA's, morons, gullible, fools, stupid, idiotic, unintelligent. You get the idea. If a person shows you who he is, consistently, for more than 50 years - BELIEVE HIM.
The wall in Germany fell. We simply need to go about our lives and speak with the working class voters who stuck by Trump. What we need are people with expertise in agriculture, manufacturing, crafting, unions to quietly, socially, caringly meet with Trump's working class voters to show them he will never take their interests into account. And we need that expertise to be in true conversation, give and take, finding out what they do, what they need and who is likely to provide it. It won't be centrist Democrats as Biden showed progressive policies when he ran in 2020. He got their votes. We can set up an online community listing working class careers, offering our services, working with them on an ongoing basis until the next time there's a vote. And liase with progressive Democrats in localities to bring them along. We must save ourselves. This is the way I think we can do it.
Carol, well analyzed and well said. The US is rich in female and male talent who can run rings around most anyone. We are rich in talent, brains and humanity.
We need to nuture, and educate good people rising up. Critical to weed out the sociopaths who seem to be attracted to politics. T
There are several talented and good people currently in the pipeline right now. ,
Clinton's loss was partly due to Jill Stein having gotten the votes necessary to put Clinton over the top in three states, and partly due to her having not bothered to campaign in (I think it was) the same states, where her husband had told her she needed to campaign.
Will there be a democracy in four years? respect for Federal & Constitutional laws? any hope for the masses once Trump blows up the nation? the courts make every crime committed by pols legal, etc.? men controlling what women can & can't do, in all aspects of life? deviant r@pists will get a high 5?
This is true, yet if we lay down and die without asserting our rights, then we deserve it, no? So it remains an open question as to whether that shall come to pass.
You are an amazing and caring human being. I wish we had had the wisdom (collective) to elect you. You would have been a remarkable president. Keep on keeping on. We have your back.
It’s been an honor to have her run. It was an honor to help her and vote for her.
Go Kams! -- By the way, folks, feel free to contact Joe Biden and Judge Juan Merchan, asking them not to pardon Trump, or refuse to give him jail time, or fail to prosecute him to the utmost reasonable extent. https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/share/ ; jmerchan@nycourts.gov . (Addresses to the best of my knowledge; feel free to research further, send paper mail, etc.).Thanks!
To be honest, I wonder if the judge will be too afraid tosentence him
That would be horrible. So write him!
I have been wondering the same thing. Did he receive threats? Is that why he allowed Trump to run for president? What sane reason could be behind that decision? I saw that the female employee at Arlington, that was assaulted by a member of Trump's mobmen, did not file charges being afraid of retaliation. After hearing she was female, now I understand the assault and Trump's derogatory comments about this employee being weak minded and not right in the head. Katie Johnson, who was the 13 year old child raped by Trump did try to file charges but withdrew them after receiving death threats. What has our country become?
Jean, I think you must be one of the few brave people that stood up to him. Thank you.
Wait, what? President Biden is definitely NOT pardoning the orange dude who destroyed democracy.
What interesting things could he do in his final months?
Add two Supreme Court justices and pardon Hunter.
Kamala and Obama as Supreme Court Justices….
People have mentioned the idea.
Sadly - the dems will do nothing. If there is one thing I have witnessed in all my years as a Democrat - we talk a lot but lack the spine. Case in point - the very decent and competent Merrick Garland, who sat on his hands for a full two years before even deciding to charge Trump, all the while saying "no one is above the law." All talk - action too little, far too late. And proving that yes, Trump is above the law and will continue to be.
We are not a nation of good people. Trump held up a mirror and saw himself and vice versa. This is the ultimate tragedy.
Hope things go better now!
He should pardon Hunter.
I sent òut messages to both the White House, and Judge Merchan.
Thanks! You're a better JD than JD Vance! :D
Things aren't great, but: please don't despair! E. Jean fought back so can we. Even achieving limited goals is better than nothing. Thanks Susan!
I just saw recently a HuffPost article, "E. Jean Carroll Shares Heartbreaking 5 Words After Trump's Win", https://www.huffpost.com/entry/e-jean-carroll-trump-election-win_n_672cb3ffe4b01cfbdad3f8d4#, noting that E. Jean tweeted, "I tried to tell you." on November 6, 10:13 a.m., at https://x.com/ejeancarroll/status/1854225543773749729. If someone hasn't mentioned this already, I'm mentioning it. Thanks E. Jean.
All I know, is that I’M NOT GOING BACK!!!!!!!!! Thank you Kamala and E Jean for this!
We have gone back. Wake up.
Actually, I’m more awake than I’ve ever been.
While I awoke the day after the election to the news that it’s still a man’s world (and a shitty one at that), that the majority of voters cannot fathom a female president, that misogyny continues to run wild, that revenge and not progress is the name of the game, that there are policies in place that will further limit women’s already limited and unequal rights, that the new administration will attempt to dictate who we love or how live our lives, I am more determined to NEVER EVER go back. I can’t change that we lost. But I certainly can refuse to adhere to a defeatist attitude that “waking up” means giving in. Fuck no.
Thanks for this, I totally agree. While I’m feeling overwhelming anger, anxiety, and sadness, I’m also feeling wide awake and as determined as you to NEVER EVER go back. I like the way that you framed it “waking up” doesn’t mean giving up, or giving in. Fuck no and FUCK THEM.
Oh we're back!!!!!
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I voted for Trump just because he was falsely accused of rape and defamed in court.
How could anyone vote for that potato brain Kamala Harris?
We must stick together and hold on tight these next 4 years. It’s gonna be a bumpy and rocky road
Fasten your seatbelts...to quote Bette Davis. I'm in for the long haul. I think MLK, jr said the fight is not accomplished in one lifetime. Not sure what number I'm on but this incarnation is what I do on this planet now. "My life is my message."
Four years is too long. It will be too late in 2028 because they aren’t leaving. Let’s hope they burn the world down well enough in time to recapture the House and Senate in 2026 and throw his sorry ass out.
I forgot to give photo credit for that magnificent and magical shot of Kamala! It is taken by Andrew Harnik. Getty Images.
Thank you for giving those of us who can't afford to subscribe to your feed a chance to let Kamala know how much she means to the world.
I appreciate it!
Yes! Isn’t it just wonderful?💝💙
Love her so much! What an example of integrity and love for all
Thank you, Madam Vice President, Second Gentleman. Thank you POTUS and Dr. Biden. Thank you E. Jean.
I couldnt get the words right..you did..THANK YOU !!
POTUS should have fired Merrick Garland’s sorry ass in 2021 when he failed to throw the traitor in jail. POTUS still has two months to throw the traitor’s sorry ass in jail, with impunity according to our esteemed SCOTUS so do it now, before he blows up the world. No kidding. That’s not hyperbole, folks. 😡😡😡
Garland has been such a monumental disappointment. He has helped this country slow-walk into autocracy by not dealing with Trump. Trump is a traitor plain and simple. I want Biden to add two justices to the Supreme Court before he leaves. It would be great if Kamala Harris was one of those. She would be terrific if she would want the job. I think it's right up her alley.
💙Deeply grateful for Kamala💖
She's given us wings, now let's fly and get this done! We are women and we won't go quietly in the night!
I hope she runs again in four years.
Assuming that’s still a thing.
It will be. Keep the faith! One thing about us is that we will not go quietly into the night.
I hope you're right. Who knows what 47 will do to us.
And the Project 2025 architects...
Sadly, yes. The GOP seems to think the government belongs to them.
Because it does belong to them and American citizens may never get it back. Unless Democrats play the long game and come up with a smarter strategy that reaches everyone, America is over. Misogyny, racism, and hate have won.
How do we, as Democrats, "strategize" "smarter," to overcome misogyny, racism, and hate?
They don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Russia won this election because they have industrialized psychological operations and we have our heads in the sand. The peasantry are too stupid to foster democracy given existing tech infrastructure. That's all there is to it.
And sadly it does for now. Hopefully there are still enough good republicans left to keep things from going completely off the rails.
Anyone who votes Republican doesn't care about climate, children's health, women's health, education and guns. They only care about themselves.
Apparently, not. Not one decent Republican politician, not one decent Republican judge connected to SCOTUS or the Trump cases. if there are any Republicans that fail to toe the Party Line, they will be gone.
I have bad news.
👆👆👆👆👆
I suspect we'll be voting again in four years. But I don't think we're going to run another woman that soon after having two lose eight years apart. (Clinton would have won had Jill Stein not taken just enough votes to give Clinton the necessary electoral votes.)
Hillary lost because Comey interjected a needless comment.
That, too! Definitely yes. That one makes me as mad as Jill Stein's ridiculous campaign.
About the vote.....that's not a sure thing, anymore.
No. Do you want to lose again?? Get real.
Obviously this country has rejected two competent superior women to the cretin.
They wanted to run against her because the Republicans know Americans are too racist and sexist.
I agree. I think it's going to be at least 20 years before the Dems run another woman (assuming we keep our Democracy). It really scuks that so many people in our country are so backward. As I said somewhere within the last couple of weeks, Joe Biden is the best pres of my lifetime, which began the first summer of the Eisenhower Administration, but that I wouldn't be surprised if Harris surpasses Biden. Now... I'll likely never get to find out.
It must be said that a major part of what made HRC lose was Jill Stein, who received the number of votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and I forget which other state, that would have put Hillary over the top. Stein, who is a neighbor, is a person whose ego is outsized compared to her ability to think clearly, and her sons were quite pissed off at her for running this go-round. But I haven't heard anything that suggests that her absence from this race would have put Kamala Harris over the top.
Jill Stein DID, however, help influence a lot of furious Muslim people in MI to vote against their own self-interest. It’s wild to think that Trump’s actual MUSLIM BAN was just 8 years ago (and it swept plenty of other Arab people along— because what’s the diff to Trump & his cronies?)— yet so many Muslim/Arab US citizens felt fine with punishing the Democrats for Biden’s (wrong-headed, IMO) actions on Gaza, even though Trumpism is likely to lead to an even worse outcome for Palestinians.
I hate what the Israeli government is doing to Gaza. Netanyahu and his fellow super-hawks have been making great progress on their lifelong dream: exterminating the Palestinian people. I regret that Kamala didn’t speak out about the Biden admin’s role in that. I have a feeling that she would’ve made very different moves immediately in January.
Meanwhile, we’ll never know now…and Jill Stein is smugly noting that she sure taught those Dems a lesson.
thanks for this, Maria. You're helping me feel a little better. And, yeah, Netanyahu is Israel's Trump.
As for Stein, she's indirectly responsible for all the Dobbs-related morbidity and mortality among girls and women, but I doubt that's ever occurred to her.
And I agree with... well, everything you say.
I wish no 3rd party would ever run. I realize our system isn't perfect and it needs to be fixed. But d'n the 3rd party people to HELL for causing the cheato to win. How does the female Russian asset have enough money? Is it stocks or just grifting?
If we had ranked choice voting, it would be reasonable for people to run as third party candidates. If not, if they do anything, they will deprive some often worthy person of being elected, as Jill Stein did to HRC in 2016.
Ranked voting is fine. Voting 3rd party now is not. But IMO Bernie and members of the squad are working for Russia.
From what I read in the current count, it would not have. I guess America is going to have to hurt more before we turn things around. So unfortunate.
So unfortunate, indeed.
I don't think "backward" is the right word to describe Trump supporters", some words that would apply are: jackA's, morons, gullible, fools, stupid, idiotic, unintelligent. You get the idea. If a person shows you who he is, consistently, for more than 50 years - BELIEVE HIM.
The wall in Germany fell. We simply need to go about our lives and speak with the working class voters who stuck by Trump. What we need are people with expertise in agriculture, manufacturing, crafting, unions to quietly, socially, caringly meet with Trump's working class voters to show them he will never take their interests into account. And we need that expertise to be in true conversation, give and take, finding out what they do, what they need and who is likely to provide it. It won't be centrist Democrats as Biden showed progressive policies when he ran in 2020. He got their votes. We can set up an online community listing working class careers, offering our services, working with them on an ongoing basis until the next time there's a vote. And liase with progressive Democrats in localities to bring them along. We must save ourselves. This is the way I think we can do it.
Carol, well analyzed and well said. The US is rich in female and male talent who can run rings around most anyone. We are rich in talent, brains and humanity.
We need to nuture, and educate good people rising up. Critical to weed out the sociopaths who seem to be attracted to politics. T
There are several talented and good people currently in the pipeline right now. ,
We cannot afford to lose too much time
Well analyzed and said!
Sadly,true
Clinton's loss was partly due to Jill Stein having gotten the votes necessary to put Clinton over the top in three states, and partly due to her having not bothered to campaign in (I think it was) the same states, where her husband had told her she needed to campaign.
Will there be a democracy in four years? respect for Federal & Constitutional laws? any hope for the masses once Trump blows up the nation? the courts make every crime committed by pols legal, etc.? men controlling what women can & can't do, in all aspects of life? deviant r@pists will get a high 5?
All Excellent questions Abby.
The monster doesn’t plan any more elections. he told us that while he was running - just vote for me, you won’t have to vote anymore.
This is true, yet if we lay down and die without asserting our rights, then we deserve it, no? So it remains an open question as to whether that shall come to pass.
Yes WE DO!!! WE ARE HEARTBROKEN!!!! For you, ourselves but mostly OUR AMERICA!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🥴😔
My heart was broken when Hillary lost, ❤️🩹 got better with Biden in office and now it’s beyond repair❤️🔥
😔😣😥😓
E Jean, thank you for giving us a space to say thank you.
Thank you Kamala, your campaign was flawless and so full of hope and joy and fabulous people. Something isn’t right. I can’t watch you concede.
tremendous inspiration & gratitude !!
I am literally sobbing right now.
I had more faith in the American people than what they have shown us.
American exceptionalism is beyond recall. 😫😫😫😫
We’ve never seen a campaign run with such joy, energy,intelligence and compassion. We love you, Kamala!
Absolutely!
Leading with integrity, common sense, a commitment to the rule of law and humanity.
You are an amazing and caring human being. I wish we had had the wisdom (collective) to elect you. You would have been a remarkable president. Keep on keeping on. We have your back.
Do not concede. Russia invaded and brainwashed. Hold on to Constitution. No autocrats allowed.
We have Project 2025 now. Not our constitution.
Ahhhh.
Rep Jasmine Crockett was one if the first to try to sound the alarm
https://youtu.be/mpOV2f2nu4c?si=K73l-xiXJpC7u9Wk
JD Vance was only a third of the way through his term.
And before that he was a venture capitalist in Peter Thiel's firm.