Brian, he gets it. No disrespect intended. He is a fascist and doesn’t care about we the people. He wants his billionaires happy, and is dead and gone.
Agree but I read that the Dem. leaders are saying that they want to run on just affordability. I hope this is not true because they also need to run on the ginormous amount of his corruption which puts our tax dollars in his hands and the hands of his cronies instead of into programs that help we citizens who pay those taxes. Grrrr
I keep seeing "he doesn't care about WE the prople" or "doesn't help WE the people", and honestly, for anyone who cares about the English language, this is tooth-grindingly painful! Yes, yes, I know the Constitution says "We the people...etc" but that must change to "us" when it becomes the object instead of the subject. " Trump doesn't care about US". Please! If you're willing to sound illiterate, go sit with the oblivious MAGAts.
I always regard that as a quote — “we the people” — so I think under these circumstances it’s proper usage. So petty splitting of hairs and semantics aren’t helpful either. We’re not all English teachers.
Ok I get what you are saying BUT how could any thinking person interpreted what Trump was saying to mean that he was going to fix “things”. The man is a liar, had a track record of going bankrupt, a felon, a thief, a rapist……..bleach for God’s sake.
They are actually called "low information voters." They're not (necessarily) stupid. They just don't pay attention to political news. The test is they are unable to name which party controls the House and the Senate.
Many low to medium income Americans don’t venture far from their towns/ communities/States. They do not venture far enough to see a different situation other than how they and their neighbours live. Not very broad minded it seems. If it was good enough for my great grandpa, grandpa and dad …. So this could be part of the problem, not getting out and educating themselves. Sad but true
This is true. Many low-to-medium income Americans simply cannot afford to do this given how the hollowing out of the middle class began under Reagan. (We all know where Reagan's billionaire tax savings trickled to, and it wading down.) And the systematic undermining of higher "elite" education by conservatives has added to this. We need workers from all echelons of society, not just universities. But higher education has been under attack for about 40 years is only going to be made worse.
How you describe them (not paying attention) is exactly what makes them stupid. It's the same reason the that many people flunk out of college, and the same reason that they manage to get fired or can't keep a job and then blame it on a democratic president.
I think you're missing the point. These are people who may be quite knowledgeable about many things. They just don't share your (and my) interest in following politics and government. I don't follow professional sports at all, and also didn't watch one second of the Olympics. That doesn't make me stupid. It just isn't important to me. For these people who might vote in a presidential election and otherwise not pay attention, they may be ignorant but they're necessarily stupid.
When their church preaches, family & friends believe far right wing politics, hate the non white skinned immigrants, hate citizen POC & they watch only Faux for propaganda "news" that is what people will believe to be the truth unless they actually venture out of the fold, open their eyes & learn differently.
Thing is, the Democrats were promising not to change anything. Trump was promising to blow everything up. Neither of thoze is a very good promise; but, when the current state of things seems terrible enough, you're going to go for any kind of change that seems to be available, even if it's negative change. The 2024 election was not (for most Trump voters, at least) a serious show of belief in Trump's obvious lies; it was the political equivalent of an attempted suicide, and, like most attempted suicides, the point was to get attention on how fucked up things are, not to actually die.
Trump and the Republicans have shown that they're still not paying attention. That means that, if the Democrats can show that they have started paying attention and have ideas for positive change, they have a good chance at getting the votes of all of the people who voted for destruction last time becauze it was the only change available.
We'll see if they're capable of taking advantage of that opportunity.
They lost because they nominated a Black woman as President; not because of change, not because of the price of eggs. The people who decided the election was the voters that stayed home. Don't tell me they let Trump win, after we have finally got rid of him, was because Trump was the change America needed. No, they didn't how bad he would be, even though he said told them.
MAGA white men in particular. They likely wouldn't even vote for any woman for president unless she was as stupid and horrible as Sarah Palin, Kristy Noem, Bondi, Lake, et al. Misogyny and toxic testosterone can be a lethal combination.
Kamela should have won. The Repuglicans cheated. They knew black people vote fy puor democrats so the put all kinds of obstacales to stop black people from voting. Kamela should have folloto couwed trump and taken them to court. She would have won.
We all want them all gone. Yesterday. I fear that any recovery will be long and difficult. The death and destruction Trumpenstein/MAGA will leave behind will be an enormous challenge. The optimist in me looks forward to witnessing at least the beginning.
For a fact checker on this batshit crazy “speech” one needn’t look further than their own FYP’s and bank accounts.
Donnie is living la vida loco in confabulation land and all of us are living in reality. Midterms can’t come soon enough.
I saw his polling dropped more points AGAIN after this whiney lying rant fest marketed as the “state of the union.” Tick Tock, the reckoning is coming.
Jail!!! For the entire trump klan n kkkabinet! Kegsbreath blowing up all those boats n murdering so many!!! bondi committing perjury! noem n patel spending money n using we the people’s planes for personal fun!! his entire kkkabinet is like a ship of fools, grifters, incompetent, corrupt cabal!!
But we still have a lot of work to do. There are so many people that continue to believe the lies that come out of that cretin's mouth and genuinely believe that he is doing a good job. It absolutely boggles my mind.
Independent media are rapidly overtaking traditional and print media, both of which are going to eventually become obsolete. Hmm. I wonder who will be left to show up for the White House press conferences.
DJT has NEVER done a good job on anything but self promotion. He is dumber than a rock. A professor at University of Pennsylvania and Rex Tillerson both thought DJT was a moron. Nothing he has done has disabused me of that notion.
I’m always amazed how so any talking heads can attempt to predict the future by simplistic synthetic analogs. Hasn’t ever occurred to you that like predicting the weather there are too many variables and non-linear events. I believe the probability that the election will be rigged is greater than 50 percentile.
No discussion of the midterms should go forward without talking about the threats to a free and fair election with Rump and the SAVE act threatening our democracy from the cheater perspective (also like Wile E Coyote).
Someone (who is not GOP, MAGA or Trump) should guard the polling places and prevent the votes from being front-loaded. I nominate each state's National Guard, as invoked by their governors.
We bought a lift chair today and the price before his lizard brain tariffs was $779 and now it is $899. We are retired and living on a fixed income. He aka Krasnov is doing all he can to destroy our country and he destroys everything he touches. He is a sadistic sociopath, a pedophile, a monster.
Brian, he gets it. No disrespect intended. He is a fascist and doesn’t care about we the people. He wants his billionaires happy, and is dead and gone.
Trump hates us.
Trump only loves 3 things: 1. Attention. 2. Money. 3. Himself.
He also likes underage girls.
well, he definitely doesn't like to be challenged & young girls haven't the life experience yet to counter him
Reverse those numbers and you have got it.
you forgot power sans responsibility
I hate trump.
Absolutely!
actually, I think he hates the whole world but, for what reason I can not tell why a man with everything he wants is so sour?
I have lots of disrespect for the malignant narcissist facist.
PLEASE 🙏 LET THIS BE HIS UNDOING! 🤣
I’ll be voting not just on ‘the economy’, but on the racism, the sexism, the terrorism, and the palpable evil of the Epstein/Trump Regime.
Agree but I read that the Dem. leaders are saying that they want to run on just affordability. I hope this is not true because they also need to run on the ginormous amount of his corruption which puts our tax dollars in his hands and the hands of his cronies instead of into programs that help we citizens who pay those taxes. Grrrr
I keep seeing "he doesn't care about WE the prople" or "doesn't help WE the people", and honestly, for anyone who cares about the English language, this is tooth-grindingly painful! Yes, yes, I know the Constitution says "We the people...etc" but that must change to "us" when it becomes the object instead of the subject. " Trump doesn't care about US". Please! If you're willing to sound illiterate, go sit with the oblivious MAGAts.
Well, you sound nice. It must be difficult to be so perfect. Take a chill pill, Jude.
I get it, but why pick at grammar? We’re on the same side. Let’s just focus on encouraging others to take back congress and hopefully the senate.
What they said^
I always regard that as a quote — “we the people” — so I think under these circumstances it’s proper usage. So petty splitting of hairs and semantics aren’t helpful either. We’re not all English teachers.
Ok I get what you are saying BUT how could any thinking person interpreted what Trump was saying to mean that he was going to fix “things”. The man is a liar, had a track record of going bankrupt, a felon, a thief, a rapist……..bleach for God’s sake.
The ones who voted for him are not "thinking persons"?
They are actually called "low information voters." They're not (necessarily) stupid. They just don't pay attention to political news. The test is they are unable to name which party controls the House and the Senate.
Many low to medium income Americans don’t venture far from their towns/ communities/States. They do not venture far enough to see a different situation other than how they and their neighbours live. Not very broad minded it seems. If it was good enough for my great grandpa, grandpa and dad …. So this could be part of the problem, not getting out and educating themselves. Sad but true
This is true. Many low-to-medium income Americans simply cannot afford to do this given how the hollowing out of the middle class began under Reagan. (We all know where Reagan's billionaire tax savings trickled to, and it wading down.) And the systematic undermining of higher "elite" education by conservatives has added to this. We need workers from all echelons of society, not just universities. But higher education has been under attack for about 40 years is only going to be made worse.
How you describe them (not paying attention) is exactly what makes them stupid. It's the same reason the that many people flunk out of college, and the same reason that they manage to get fired or can't keep a job and then blame it on a democratic president.
I think you're missing the point. These are people who may be quite knowledgeable about many things. They just don't share your (and my) interest in following politics and government. I don't follow professional sports at all, and also didn't watch one second of the Olympics. That doesn't make me stupid. It just isn't important to me. For these people who might vote in a presidential election and otherwise not pay attention, they may be ignorant but they're necessarily stupid.
When their church preaches, family & friends believe far right wing politics, hate the non white skinned immigrants, hate citizen POC & they watch only Faux for propaganda "news" that is what people will believe to be the truth unless they actually venture out of the fold, open their eyes & learn differently.
tRump said he loves stupid people. No wonder. 8D
Thing is, the Democrats were promising not to change anything. Trump was promising to blow everything up. Neither of thoze is a very good promise; but, when the current state of things seems terrible enough, you're going to go for any kind of change that seems to be available, even if it's negative change. The 2024 election was not (for most Trump voters, at least) a serious show of belief in Trump's obvious lies; it was the political equivalent of an attempted suicide, and, like most attempted suicides, the point was to get attention on how fucked up things are, not to actually die.
Trump and the Republicans have shown that they're still not paying attention. That means that, if the Democrats can show that they have started paying attention and have ideas for positive change, they have a good chance at getting the votes of all of the people who voted for destruction last time becauze it was the only change available.
We'll see if they're capable of taking advantage of that opportunity.
They lost because they nominated a Black woman as President; not because of change, not because of the price of eggs. The people who decided the election was the voters that stayed home. Don't tell me they let Trump win, after we have finally got rid of him, was because Trump was the change America needed. No, they didn't how bad he would be, even though he said told them.
MAGA white men in particular. They likely wouldn't even vote for any woman for president unless she was as stupid and horrible as Sarah Palin, Kristy Noem, Bondi, Lake, et al. Misogyny and toxic testosterone can be a lethal combination.
Kamela should have won. The Repuglicans cheated. They knew black people vote fy puor democrats so the put all kinds of obstacales to stop black people from voting. Kamela should have folloto couwed trump and taken them to court. She would have won.
As long as musk keeps his fricking money n programming dickwads out of it!
Twelve badgers….What a valiant attempt on your part. Attempted suicide indeed. They succeeded. And here we are. Maybe stupid is paying attention now……
I really want him and crew gone as soon as possible so the nation can recover. I would suggest an mass firing of some kind or other.
We all want them all gone. Yesterday. I fear that any recovery will be long and difficult. The death and destruction Trumpenstein/MAGA will leave behind will be an enormous challenge. The optimist in me looks forward to witnessing at least the beginning.
For a fact checker on this batshit crazy “speech” one needn’t look further than their own FYP’s and bank accounts.
Donnie is living la vida loco in confabulation land and all of us are living in reality. Midterms can’t come soon enough.
I saw his polling dropped more points AGAIN after this whiney lying rant fest marketed as the “state of the union.” Tick Tock, the reckoning is coming.
I saw 26% approval rating yesterday. It should be zero after that excuse of a sotu.
He didn’t win. 2024 was manipulated and no one bothered to even request recounts in swing districts and ones w statistically impossible results.
He and his God forsaken cronies all need to be brought down!!!
Jail!!! For the entire trump klan n kkkabinet! Kegsbreath blowing up all those boats n murdering so many!!! bondi committing perjury! noem n patel spending money n using we the people’s planes for personal fun!! his entire kkkabinet is like a ship of fools, grifters, incompetent, corrupt cabal!!
But we still have a lot of work to do. There are so many people that continue to believe the lies that come out of that cretin's mouth and genuinely believe that he is doing a good job. It absolutely boggles my mind.
And the established media refuse to challenge him.
Independent media are rapidly overtaking traditional and print media, both of which are going to eventually become obsolete. Hmm. I wonder who will be left to show up for the White House press conferences.
I suspect there will always be a percentage of Americans who remain brain dead. The reasons are too many to enumerate here.
🧠🧠🧠🧠
DJT has NEVER done a good job on anything but self promotion. He is dumber than a rock. A professor at University of Pennsylvania and Rex Tillerson both thought DJT was a moron. Nothing he has done has disabused me of that notion.
I wonder if those people grocery shop or fill their cars with gas, living expenses’. WTH!
True, but that number is shrinking. His approval rating is now in the 30s.
Thanks BTC, your videos are eye opening.
Thanks Brian.
I’m always amazed how so any talking heads can attempt to predict the future by simplistic synthetic analogs. Hasn’t ever occurred to you that like predicting the weather there are too many variables and non-linear events. I believe the probability that the election will be rigged is greater than 50 percentile.
Cannot wait until the day he is no longer president.
🙏🔷🇺🇸🙏
No discussion of the midterms should go forward without talking about the threats to a free and fair election with Rump and the SAVE act threatening our democracy from the cheater perspective (also like Wile E Coyote).
Someone (who is not GOP, MAGA or Trump) should guard the polling places and prevent the votes from being front-loaded. I nominate each state's National Guard, as invoked by their governors.
I love our vote by mail! I’ve been an election observer. It is so damn safe. The cameras are everywhere! No picking your nose or bum! Live streaming!
Best post SOTU story: last night, opposite the speech, Turner Classic Movies was playing "Gaslight."
We bought a lift chair today and the price before his lizard brain tariffs was $779 and now it is $899. We are retired and living on a fixed income. He aka Krasnov is doing all he can to destroy our country and he destroys everything he touches. He is a sadistic sociopath, a pedophile, a monster.
Very well said .. and may I say extremely well written (as always) love your podcast