All this has done is proclaim to the world that the US is not to be trusted with even the smallest matter. I have never been so ashamed to be an American as I am today.
And all of what Jay is talking about today comes on top of the abandonment of our democratic ally in the midst of war. There's only one way to stop this out-of-control train of disasters: Impeachment
Stop believing that it can never happen just because Republicans have the majority.
Not every Republican Senator and Representative is MAGA. Most are actually moderates who've been too timid to act. That is changing. As I've pointed out here previously:
"When big pharma sees its research grants disappear, when big real estate and development interests see federal housing assistance dry up, when big agriculture sees crop subsidies suspended, when big retail sees tariffs raising the cost of imports, they'll all be demanding that their bought and paid for Congress Members end the crisis.
When food stamps and medicaid are cut, unemployment rises and inflation spikes, crowds of angry voters will be pounding on their doors with the same demands as wealthy lobbyists."
We need to lead our "leaders", and work to bring about the impeachment of the President and Vice President, as well as the removal and replacement of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Do Not Surrender In advance. The stakes are too high. Impeach before it's too late.
To learn more details about removing the Speaker and Impeaching the President and Vice President, please see these posts from FeathersOfHope.net :
But we would have to impeach Trump and Vance. Then who would be the next president? Speaker of the House? We would have to keep impeaching until we got down to a democrat because replacing trump with one of his yes men won't help anything.
You have a valid point. Cathy. That's why a successful Impeachment starts with the House passing a "motion to vacate the chair" in the House.
Once a sufficient number of Republicans have decided they want Donald Trump out, a cross-party alliance in the House can elect a moderate Republican to be Speaker (yes, there are many of them). Then impeachment motions would be brought to the floor.
The mechanics are relatively simple. The will to proceed is all that's lacking -- up to now.
Yes, but according to "there's always a tweet" Trump, the President should be impeached if the stockmarket drops 1000 points in two days, and it has dropped 1300... if it keeps dropping you could keep impeaching.
Look, this isn't the ideal solution, but it's at least within the realm of possibility. Nixon resigned when Republicans turned on him. Trump will never resign, so our only hope is for a critical mass of Republicans to do the same. If someone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it.
But I for one am not going down without a fight, crying about how there's nothing we can do. Boo-hoo, we're helpless.... NO! We are not helpless unless we choose to be.
Maybe not a better idea, but a different one: secession. CA just needs to announce it will do it unless Trump and cabinet resign immediately. The Trumpsters will be so busy with crisis management they won't have time to further ruin the country's economy, foreign affairs, and reputation. Hopefully, other blue states will follow, making the crisis huge.
Back in the day, Texas repeatedly threatened secession. I remember thinking along the lines of "just let them do it." The minute the ink's dry, the (now 49-state U.S.) should invade the (new nation of Texasistan with only a tiny defense) and grab all their oil, resources, etc. Succession really doesn't work too well -- cf. the deep south of today. But I think Cali should just withhold all Federal tax payments. Would be interesting to see what happens.
Republicans didn't vote to impeach the first two times because Donald Trump posed no threat to them or their donors. This time his actions are harming both Republican donors and Republican voters.
Recall that in December 2019 (impeachment #1), the economy was doing well, inflation 2.9% unemployment 3.6%. The charged offense was of little importance to the general public, certainly to most Republicans. There was no incentive to abandon him.
In February 2021 (impeachment #2), the insurrection had failed and Trump was no longer in office. Most people assumed his political career was over.
In 2025 the stakes are exponentially higher. Powerful economic interests are at risk and civil unrest is ever more likely -- to say nothing of the danger this President's erratic behavior presents to our national security.
If upending decades of our national foreign policy to favor a former Soviet KGB agent is not enough for the castrati of the GOP to grow them back, I am not so sure there is anything he could do to get them up off their knees.
I fear the rethugs are immobilized, spineless blobs of quivering jelly. I write my Congress Critters (all Dems) several times a week and they are almost as bad. I think we should be sending Big Macs and buckets of KFC to his highness for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night snacks 7 days a week.
Impeachment hasn’t worked before, but I’d love to see it tried again. What would it take I wonder, for enough republicans to support it? Trump’s maga loyalists and militias are threatening families.
I want you to know that you are not alone with that feeling of deep shame.
I too have felt so deeply ashamed of our shared country by all of the events that continue to unfold.
Like Dan Rather signs off, "Hold steady." We have to hold onto our fundamental decency and one another to survive this massive assault on ourselves and our allies around the globe.
Everything Trump does is a shit show. I hope he dies an excruciatingly painful death. In fact, I hope his doctors keep him alive and in agony and do not allow him to die, just to suffer.
Also, I feel no shame at being an American. I am not my country. I am a person who did not vote for Trump, I read project 2025, and I knew what to expect except for the Musk part, which makes everything much worse.
I feel badly that the idiots who voted for Trump, 77.2 million of them, and the idiots and incompetents who were eligible to and did not vote all 93 million of them allowed Trump to become president and all the suffering each and every one of them has is hopefully a lesson to them, but if they are Christian nationalists they have been programmed to suffer in order to go to heaven, so no hope there.
My impression is that the "chaos that Trump has wrought" isn't chaos at all, but part of a strategic plan devised by his handler, V. Putin. Putin can damage the democratic West without firing a shot or losing a plane - way easier than attacking Ukraine.
Nearly every action by Trump, Musk, and Congressional Republicans since the Inauguration has set the foundation for the U.S. to trash its allies, weaken alliances and trade relations, and dismantle American democracy. Russia's best assets are Musk and Trump, low information American voters, and a capitulating Congress. That's the art of the deal writ large.
As my Econ professor at Berkekey, Earl Rolph, said back in 1974 about tariffs: "a tax on imports is a tax on exports". Now we get to live in this stupidity.
All Democrats in the House and Senate MUST boycott Trump's State of the Union address.
All Democrats should show up for the SOTU address wearing blue and yellow armbands. Four minutes after Liar, Fraud, Con, Grifter, Fascist, Racist, Putin’s Puppet, Traitor Trump begins what we all know will be nothing but a MAGAt pep-rally, all Democrats should stand up and, together, walk out of the Capitol chamber.
In addition, on March 2, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson posted on her Substack a running, damning history of Trump vis a vis Russia. That POST is an ABSOLUTE MUST READ - for all Dems in the House and Senate.
Senator Elissa Slotkin, who's going to give the Dems response to Liar Trump's SOTU address MUST read Heather's entire post. We need everyone in America to understand that Trump is a traitor..... and that Traitor Trump must be removed from office.
Everyone, please call today the elected officials who represent you in the Senate and House and demand that they show all due disrespect to Trump, America’s Disgrace.
Sadly, Democrats, are, almost to a person, weak, ineffectual, namby-pamby's, milksops and cowards; too terrified to take a stand and get their hands dirty on the off chance that somebody won't like them. AOC, Richardson, Slotkin aren't afraid to call it like it is and be loud and in the MAGAts faces.
Joel, until such time as Democrats learn to hit first, hit hard and keep hitting until the threat is neutralized, I'm afraid we're stuck with the Jellyfish who inhabit/represent the party.
yep, I'm a blue dot in a Cruz, Cornyn, Hunt state/district. They aren't answering their phones, or vm are full, and haven't heard back from any emails recently. And Hunt just toed the kissfelon47rump line at his recent town hall near me :(
Honestly, taken in total, Trump appears to be waging a war against the West on behalf of Putin. Every single step taken by EO, actions by his appointees, his wrecking of federal agencies by Musk’s dodgy DOGE, and the imposition of tariffs on our largest trading partners seems to be intent on disabling our government, our military and our economy. Perhaps Putin is hoping for a world wide Depression, and Donnie is doing what he can to make it happen.
In response to: “By the end of the day, the Dow had erased over 600 points as investors braced for economic impact. Then last night, Trump rolled the dice,…
How much ya wanna bet they are playing the market when they do and say all this stupid and mean stuff?
They talk stupid, etc. and the market drops.
When the market drops, they buy it up cheap. When the market goes up they are sitting on all the stock.
Even if he changes his mind (again) on the tariffs, his blatant instability, recklessness, and ignorance is driving away any and all confidence in our country.
DonnieBoy believes in big corporations... so as family farms fail they can be bought up by major players. Watch those prices go up, while family farms go bust. I guess we should teach more "economics" in kindergarten.
Not to mention the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance where the Self Proclaimed Stable Genius graduated from, they must be So Proud!
When all that's required to turn the attention of the voters is the price of eggs, surely the American people will wake up and turn against this administration. I'm thinking egg fight in the Capitol Rotunda tonight.
This business of telling farmers, in MARCH, to change their business models and plant different crops that will be used in the US, is insane. Farming is not a business that can be changed at the last minute. Additionally, American farming is so huge that the volume of goods it produces can't be consumed solely by Americans.
Trump has never run a successful business in his life. He blackmailed his way into the Forbes list, stole from and cheated his own family, and bullshitted his way into The Apprentice. His 'world-class' suite in Trump Tower isn't even as big as he claims it is.
His current actions are, sadly, completely in line with his lifelong failing upwards strategy. It's just putting him much higher on the list of people who'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes.
"Michigan auto plants will close in a week". As a Michigan resident and Ford employee I'm petrified right now. He just doesn't give a shit! HOW DOES THIS STOP??
All this has done is proclaim to the world that the US is not to be trusted with even the smallest matter. I have never been so ashamed to be an American as I am today.
And all of what Jay is talking about today comes on top of the abandonment of our democratic ally in the midst of war. There's only one way to stop this out-of-control train of disasters: Impeachment
Stop believing that it can never happen just because Republicans have the majority.
Not every Republican Senator and Representative is MAGA. Most are actually moderates who've been too timid to act. That is changing. As I've pointed out here previously:
"When big pharma sees its research grants disappear, when big real estate and development interests see federal housing assistance dry up, when big agriculture sees crop subsidies suspended, when big retail sees tariffs raising the cost of imports, they'll all be demanding that their bought and paid for Congress Members end the crisis.
When food stamps and medicaid are cut, unemployment rises and inflation spikes, crowds of angry voters will be pounding on their doors with the same demands as wealthy lobbyists."
We need to lead our "leaders", and work to bring about the impeachment of the President and Vice President, as well as the removal and replacement of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Do Not Surrender In advance. The stakes are too high. Impeach before it's too late.
To learn more details about removing the Speaker and Impeaching the President and Vice President, please see these posts from FeathersOfHope.net :
Feb. 12, https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/to-stop-the-coup-impeach-the-traitor
Feb. 18, https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/impeachment-is-imperative
Feb. 25, https://jerryweiss,substack.com/p/remove-impeach-impeach
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But we would have to impeach Trump and Vance. Then who would be the next president? Speaker of the House? We would have to keep impeaching until we got down to a democrat because replacing trump with one of his yes men won't help anything.
You have a valid point. Cathy. That's why a successful Impeachment starts with the House passing a "motion to vacate the chair" in the House.
Once a sufficient number of Republicans have decided they want Donald Trump out, a cross-party alliance in the House can elect a moderate Republican to be Speaker (yes, there are many of them). Then impeachment motions would be brought to the floor.
The mechanics are relatively simple. The will to proceed is all that's lacking -- up to now.
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Yes, but according to "there's always a tweet" Trump, the President should be impeached if the stockmarket drops 1000 points in two days, and it has dropped 1300... if it keeps dropping you could keep impeaching.
Thanks for the news from Earth II, where the sky is green and the grass is blue.
Look, this isn't the ideal solution, but it's at least within the realm of possibility. Nixon resigned when Republicans turned on him. Trump will never resign, so our only hope is for a critical mass of Republicans to do the same. If someone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it.
But I for one am not going down without a fight, crying about how there's nothing we can do. Boo-hoo, we're helpless.... NO! We are not helpless unless we choose to be.
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Maybe not a better idea, but a different one: secession. CA just needs to announce it will do it unless Trump and cabinet resign immediately. The Trumpsters will be so busy with crisis management they won't have time to further ruin the country's economy, foreign affairs, and reputation. Hopefully, other blue states will follow, making the crisis huge.
I like these “outside the box” ideas. 💪
Back in the day, Texas repeatedly threatened secession. I remember thinking along the lines of "just let them do it." The minute the ink's dry, the (now 49-state U.S.) should invade the (new nation of Texasistan with only a tiny defense) and grab all their oil, resources, etc. Succession really doesn't work too well -- cf. the deep south of today. But I think Cali should just withhold all Federal tax payments. Would be interesting to see what happens.
"Impeachment" is my mantra.
Pamela, impeachment cannot happen until Democrats control both houses of Congress. Put your efforts toward taking back the House and Senate in 2026.
Thank you Jerry Weiss. I enjoy reading your Substack column, among others. It has furnished me with some hope over the past year.
Why would republicans vote to impeach trump NOW when they’ve had two opportunities before and refused?
Republicans didn't vote to impeach the first two times because Donald Trump posed no threat to them or their donors. This time his actions are harming both Republican donors and Republican voters.
Recall that in December 2019 (impeachment #1), the economy was doing well, inflation 2.9% unemployment 3.6%. The charged offense was of little importance to the general public, certainly to most Republicans. There was no incentive to abandon him.
In February 2021 (impeachment #2), the insurrection had failed and Trump was no longer in office. Most people assumed his political career was over.
In 2025 the stakes are exponentially higher. Powerful economic interests are at risk and civil unrest is ever more likely -- to say nothing of the danger this President's erratic behavior presents to our national security.
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If upending decades of our national foreign policy to favor a former Soviet KGB agent is not enough for the castrati of the GOP to grow them back, I am not so sure there is anything he could do to get them up off their knees.
I fear the rethugs are immobilized, spineless blobs of quivering jelly. I write my Congress Critters (all Dems) several times a week and they are almost as bad. I think we should be sending Big Macs and buckets of KFC to his highness for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night snacks 7 days a week.
Impeachment hasn’t worked before, but I’d love to see it tried again. What would it take I wonder, for enough republicans to support it? Trump’s maga loyalists and militias are threatening families.
It doesn't matter if they're "too timid." THEIR VOTES ARE WHAT MATTER. I prefer to call a spade a spade.
I want you to know that you are not alone with that feeling of deep shame.
I too have felt so deeply ashamed of our shared country by all of the events that continue to unfold.
Like Dan Rather signs off, "Hold steady." We have to hold onto our fundamental decency and one another to survive this massive assault on ourselves and our allies around the globe.
Everything Trump does is a shit show. I hope he dies an excruciatingly painful death. In fact, I hope his doctors keep him alive and in agony and do not allow him to die, just to suffer.
Also, I feel no shame at being an American. I am not my country. I am a person who did not vote for Trump, I read project 2025, and I knew what to expect except for the Musk part, which makes everything much worse.
I feel badly that the idiots who voted for Trump, 77.2 million of them, and the idiots and incompetents who were eligible to and did not vote all 93 million of them allowed Trump to become president and all the suffering each and every one of them has is hopefully a lesson to them, but if they are Christian nationalists they have been programmed to suffer in order to go to heaven, so no hope there.
And I was very ashamed last Friday.
Looks like he’s “having fun” destroying our country. Total madness😡😡😡
We're going to get so tired of "having fun," just like we did with "winning. "
As well as the Worldwide Economy!
My impression is that the "chaos that Trump has wrought" isn't chaos at all, but part of a strategic plan devised by his handler, V. Putin. Putin can damage the democratic West without firing a shot or losing a plane - way easier than attacking Ukraine.
Nearly every action by Trump, Musk, and Congressional Republicans since the Inauguration has set the foundation for the U.S. to trash its allies, weaken alliances and trade relations, and dismantle American democracy. Russia's best assets are Musk and Trump, low information American voters, and a capitulating Congress. That's the art of the deal writ large.
Not to mention the STEALING of Our Democracy!
Well said, Laurie! That is the big picture that we need to be up in arms against.
As my Econ professor at Berkekey, Earl Rolph, said back in 1974 about tariffs: "a tax on imports is a tax on exports". Now we get to live in this stupidity.
AGAIN!
All Democrats in the House and Senate MUST boycott Trump's State of the Union address.
All Democrats should show up for the SOTU address wearing blue and yellow armbands. Four minutes after Liar, Fraud, Con, Grifter, Fascist, Racist, Putin’s Puppet, Traitor Trump begins what we all know will be nothing but a MAGAt pep-rally, all Democrats should stand up and, together, walk out of the Capitol chamber.
In addition, on March 2, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson posted on her Substack a running, damning history of Trump vis a vis Russia. That POST is an ABSOLUTE MUST READ - for all Dems in the House and Senate.
Senator Elissa Slotkin, who's going to give the Dems response to Liar Trump's SOTU address MUST read Heather's entire post. We need everyone in America to understand that Trump is a traitor..... and that Traitor Trump must be removed from office.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Everyone, please call today the elected officials who represent you in the Senate and House and demand that they show all due disrespect to Trump, America’s Disgrace.
All EXCELLENT suggestions/recommendations.
Sadly, Democrats, are, almost to a person, weak, ineffectual, namby-pamby's, milksops and cowards; too terrified to take a stand and get their hands dirty on the off chance that somebody won't like them. AOC, Richardson, Slotkin aren't afraid to call it like it is and be loud and in the MAGAts faces.
Joel, until such time as Democrats learn to hit first, hit hard and keep hitting until the threat is neutralized, I'm afraid we're stuck with the Jellyfish who inhabit/represent the party.
Although I agree with you I can't comply. My 21st Congressional District Rep is Vince Fong and he's a Kevin McCarthy CLONE!
yep, I'm a blue dot in a Cruz, Cornyn, Hunt state/district. They aren't answering their phones, or vm are full, and haven't heard back from any emails recently. And Hunt just toed the kissfelon47rump line at his recent town hall near me :(
He’s like a cat walking across a keyboard. That’s his governing style. And he just doesn’t give a shit
Disgusting
You put it too kindly. He is a criminally insane gangster opening fire on everyone but his loyalists
Them too. He's loyal to no one but Krasnov.
I had to look up Krasnov. Fascinating. All hail, President Krasnov!
Harumph. That’s prez Krasnov.
Tom, I sent this Snopes article to Greg Olear, who wrote about "Krasnov," asking for his thoughts. May we know yours?
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/trump-kgb-agent-krasnov/
His Loyalists, including Farmer's are going to Eat It Too!
Honestly, this is an effective way to put it!
Honestly, taken in total, Trump appears to be waging a war against the West on behalf of Putin. Every single step taken by EO, actions by his appointees, his wrecking of federal agencies by Musk’s dodgy DOGE, and the imposition of tariffs on our largest trading partners seems to be intent on disabling our government, our military and our economy. Perhaps Putin is hoping for a world wide Depression, and Donnie is doing what he can to make it happen.
In response to: “By the end of the day, the Dow had erased over 600 points as investors braced for economic impact. Then last night, Trump rolled the dice,…
How much ya wanna bet they are playing the market when they do and say all this stupid and mean stuff?
They talk stupid, etc. and the market drops.
When the market drops, they buy it up cheap. When the market goes up they are sitting on all the stock.
They can’t lose.
Especially if he "cuts a deal" again to undo the tariffs.
I'm pretty sure our Democrat elected representatives are Short Selling too!
Short sellers must be making bank on this, particularly if they set up the investments in early January, December, or November.
Even if he changes his mind (again) on the tariffs, his blatant instability, recklessness, and ignorance is driving away any and all confidence in our country.
Confidence is being replaced by Fear, lest we forget this Moron has the Nuclear Weapon Attack Codes!
What part of "a historically bad president" did his voters not understand from his first occupation of the White House?
Just posting a rabbit hole alert here. Drop down it at your own peril.
DonnieBoy believes in big corporations... so as family farms fail they can be bought up by major players. Watch those prices go up, while family farms go bust. I guess we should teach more "economics" in kindergarten.
Not to mention the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance where the Self Proclaimed Stable Genius graduated from, they must be So Proud!
Phil, drumpf did not attend the Wharton School,, he went to undergrad classes in the same building. It's another sop to support his needy ego.
🇨🇦Elbow up🇨🇦
And the gloves are off!!!
When all that's required to turn the attention of the voters is the price of eggs, surely the American people will wake up and turn against this administration. I'm thinking egg fight in the Capitol Rotunda tonight.
This business of telling farmers, in MARCH, to change their business models and plant different crops that will be used in the US, is insane. Farming is not a business that can be changed at the last minute. Additionally, American farming is so huge that the volume of goods it produces can't be consumed solely by Americans.
Wait, you mean they can't just switch to growing avocados and coffee?
Trump has never run a successful business in his life. He blackmailed his way into the Forbes list, stole from and cheated his own family, and bullshitted his way into The Apprentice. His 'world-class' suite in Trump Tower isn't even as big as he claims it is.
His current actions are, sadly, completely in line with his lifelong failing upwards strategy. It's just putting him much higher on the list of people who'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes.
"Michigan auto plants will close in a week". As a Michigan resident and Ford employee I'm petrified right now. He just doesn't give a shit! HOW DOES THIS STOP??
Three months ago I would have said the courts. Now? Now I'm expecting him not to stop for anything less than a bullet in the brain.
too bad we don't have any congressional republicans with a spine. But if they had had spines in 2021 we wouldn't be here now would we?