We are about to have a King. This is from Robert Reich's substack this morning:
So what’s next? Will the Supreme Court and lower courts hold the administration in contempt and enforce contempt citations?
Not if the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.
The effect is to block the Judiciary's ability to check the executive. That makes it unconstitutional, but the wording appears to qualify it for the reconciliation process. The parliamentarian needs to strip this clause, or it needs to be challenged in court with an immediate injunction to block effect.
"Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation."
This translation is not a complete explanation. What does "appropriated funds" mean regarding a contempt citation? Aren't the courts funded by the Judiciary Branch (not the DOJ)? Is the funding of any of the three branches of government considered "appropriated funding"? If that's the case, can a particular court trying the contempt charge be funded by private donations, as someone else has suggested?
No, that is wrong - not a king, but a fascist leader, with nazi tendencies. That is far worse, for a king, as frightening as it is, could in principle be benevolent. It is not anymore one person taking over with his cronies - the whole GOP, or at least its echelons, has gone fascist.
"Democratic House leaders reacted with appropriate anger." And Republican leaders? And Republican leaders....? Hello? Hello?
🦗 [the faint sound of crickets in a graveyard] 🦗
One day, the MAGAT monster they created will have THEM for lunch. It's only a matter of time. Their cowardice doesn't surprise me. Their utter stupidity does.
I'm afraid they love what their fuhrer does. We underestimate their bigotry and willful ignorance when we think they're merely cowards. They have enriched themselves from robbing us right before drumpf announced his tariffs, and they lord it over the people they want deported and/or enslaved.
Their utter stupidity and callousness both surprise. The "MAGAT monster" will not turn on them. That beast is them. This is what the Republicans want. My virtually first term Representative, Rudy Yakym of Indiana, responds to every complaint with irrelevant blather about how he is fighting hard for the people of his district, while supporting a bill that cuts Medicaid and Medicare. There is no reason for Trump to turn against Republicans because they've already sold their souls to him for a pittance.
He's well-known for terrorizing them. He will call them on their private cellphones and scream and threaten. And it's not for any public good, but to pay off the Trump gangster family, to prevent them from getting primaried or their families from being threatened. Not a pretty sight.
I don't think any of them, and esp their leadership, are worried about the 2026 elections. In addition to obnoxious things that many states continue to do to make voting extremely difficult if not impossible for some, pretty sure the elections themselves will be rigged.... And why not? Even without rendering the courts "powerless", what's to keep them from ignoring the results and installing who they want anyway?
The GOP Congress are terrified that if they utter even a peep of protest, that Trump will go on FOX News and call them 'Cucks or RINO's; and then endorse their next primary challenger. Yet 90% of the Base are still ecstatic over Trump's conduct so far, mainly because RW media doesn't cover, or sugar-coats the personal financial pain coming--or already being inflicted--on the bottom 99%.
Unfortunately, the only thing that will wake the adoring GOP fanboyz from their fantasy is sufficient economic pain. Then and only then will they realize that Trump is just another Hugo Chavez.
Tell your Republican Senators what to do with this piece of shit for a bill. Remind them that Congress has no constitutional authority to tell judges how they should rule, and remind them that they'll be violating their own oaths of office should they for that amendment. Ask them how they will explain their vote to anyone on Medicare or why supporting a new $2.6 trillion debt over 10 years is in anybody's interest, and ask them point blank do they even understand what is happening to US bond markets and why. Good luck.
The idea that Republicans are “cowering” incorrectly implies that they are unhappy about the situation but are afraid to speak up. In fact, the GOP has been actively working toward autocratic one-party rule since the 1980s.
They have succeeded in reaching this advanced point precisely because the media, the pundits, and the Democratic Party have consistently treated GOP leaders as if they are cowards who would all come to their senses if Trump went away. Trump is simply a useful idiot.
There’s no better example of this than Marco Rubio telling Senate Democrats that their regret in voting to confirm his nomination is proof that he’s “doing a good job.” In other words, his job is not to advance US interests abroad, it’s to defeat Democrats at home.
And, I believe many of them are “bought.” Kevin Roberts, mastermind of Project 2025, said before the Hegseth confirmation, that he had $1 million dollars to get Hegseth confirmed.
What becomes more evident to me every day is that the Republican Party slipped from mainstream conservative party to authoritarian mass movement so slowly and subtly most people simply didn't see it coming.
They have staged a soft coup d'etat that took decades. With Mao-like determination and patience, the Republican coup rolled out from 1981 to 2021 (January 6, 2021, to be precise, when it flared up into violence and fanaticism) so subtly and gradually that most observers didn't notice. The few who did were scoffed at, treated like Cassandras.
The coup attempt of January 6 was a naked power grab so vicious and (and this is the important part) so clearly planned by key players within the executive branch and Congress, with the help of the massive right-wing agitprop apparatus that had grown up on social media, that if the poor old republic had still had its eye on the prize, there would have been a massive outcry from the press, instead of the sort of "nine days wonder" coverage that faded as swiftly as the coverage of your basic mass shooting, dying under a thick fog of artful mantras and Fox News talking points and public opinion polls.
More importantly, if the poor old country had still been in fighting trim there would have been swift, severe action by the incoming administration.
Mr. Biden and his Cabinet would have acknowledged the massiveness of the threat and moved to investigate and, where appropriate, to punish. We would not have seen the bland, institutional indifference of Mr. Garland's DOJ, and we would not have been subjected to dated rhetoric from the Democratic Congressional leadership and the White House---we're all Americans, we're one people, let's move on, Trump is gone now so let it pass.
By 2021 the old country was so weak and polarized, the corruption and capitulation of the "go-along-and-get-along" leadership of the Democratic Party so advanced, the decades of Republican propaganda, court-packing and fiscal groundwork so effective, that Mr. Trump's authoritarian coup d'etat, planned during his first administration, launched in earnest in 2021 and escalated ruthlessly through the 2024 election and beyond, was for all intents and purposes unstoppable: a fait accompli.
And the amazing thing is that the leaders of the Democratic Party and the nation's premier reporters didn't see it coming; gave every appearance of refusing to see it coming.
Some of them still don't see it.
That old saw about boiling a frog in a pot--turning up the heat so gradually that by the time the poor frog notices, it's just too damn late--turns out to be a realistic depiction of what happened to the USA.
I said that for the duration of the Biden administration, and ended up writing Biden 30 emails about Garland and others. If he had done his job, Trump would be in jail. By the time that Jack Smith got the case, with all the Aileen Cannon delays, he wasn’t able to go to court in time to find Trump guilty!
The "normalization" and seeming tacit acceptance by our mainstream media of this regime's strongman tactics is unbelievable! Yes, where is the outrage?
I agree, but we may be making that "3.5% rule" too much of a magic bullet. It's a good goal, but in and of itself, it will not do anything. At 3.5% or 3.1% in opposition, the power in this country has already shifted to the oligarchs over the last forty years and the Christian Nationalist of the Evangelical and Catholic variety who have institutionalized their view of what a woman's rights are have aided and abetted the demonizing and disempowerment of the liberal positions on race -- has anyone really protested the nearly universal abandonment of the mild mannered initiatives of DEI? We live in a country that declares "all men are created equal," and the Trump years have reminded us that that only means white Protestant men who own property -- lots of property -- and are willing to go along with the dictator. Trump is worse than a King. King George III had to deal with a Parliament that at times opposed him. Trump faces no meaningful opposition in Congress. The Courts have thwarted him somewhat so far, but he ignores them when he chooses too, and many people we all know, good liberals who will never vote for Trump, sit on their hands, carp at Biden, diminish Harris, and say there's nothing they can do.
It is time to act. I'm joining an organization today, and also sending a version of my comment to my politicians, and some activist organization. This campaign against us and our democracy was initiated by Kevin Roberts, CEO of The Heritage Foundation, and mastermind behind Project 2025. When Americans learned about it and hated it, Trump pretended he knew nothing about it, won the election, and implemented it the first day.
His One Big Beautiful Bill was always their goal. The $4.5 trillion tax cuts are an extension of the cuts Trump made for the rich and corporations in 2017, and represents the revenue that will be lost in the next ten years. If it is passed as part of this budget, it will make these cuts permanent. And, independent of what Trump says, some of it could be enacted as soon as October, during the new fiscal year. It will be funded by the massive governmental cuts and firings, and funding from Medicaid, and SNAP (food stamps). So, the rich will get richer on the backs of all Americans.
The most effective way to fight this, would be to consolidate all like-minded groups (as Roberts consolidated 100 conservative ones), and design a dynamite digital campaign, which includes Democrats and Never-Trumpers, while Democratic and Republican politicians travel throughout the United States, speaking in red and blue states.
Since we can't count on our leaders to have a strategy, or consider anything new, I found an inspirational quote about the power of people, from cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, who wrote: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
There is no outrage because not enough people really care. They are so busy partying, watching action television on apps and playing online games that they are too entertained and distracted to pay attention.
If one observes the Trump regime on a spectrum we see behavior that rewards grift and enrichment for the “Don” to meting out arrest and punishment to federal and state officials doing their jobs. A pair of DoD stooges sign for an aging ‘free’ 747 that will be given to Trump, and will cost tax payers $1 BILLION to upgrade, “…leave the keys in the President’s Oval Office desk drawer…”. On the other end are the arrest of a state Judge for the way she ran her chambers, and charges against a Democrat Congressional representative doing her job. What these arrests share in common is they involve women and circle around the treatment of immigrants of color. If you are a white South African, on the other hand, you receive endangered species treatment. One hopes the midterms will have Trump and his cabinet on the defensive.
And in the meantime Jake TRapper writes a tell all book about something everyone already knows about as some sort of manifesto, pouring gas on embers to keep it going. I’m done with you Jake the Snake. 🐍
Agreed. Give Associated Press a try. AP is independent, nonprofit , and global in scope and focused on news/reporting, not advice columnists and censored opinion.
Thank you. After seeing George Clooney in “Good Night and Good Luck,” I’m even more sorry that we have no Edward R Murrows with prime time shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Cowards.
Republicans reject representative democracy and a Constitutional Republic because they prefer fascism. And as long as most of them can kid themselves that this will never turn on them, they will continue supporting it. I know my congresscon (Nick Langworthy) will, because he is attached to the short-fingered vulgarian like a remora. He's done two good things since elected; I am assuming two is his limit. I'm just ranting, because I don't know what else to do.
You make me want to travel overseas. Hopefully someday I will. I'm wondering in your travels have you felt uncomfortable by being an American in another country during the time of trump 2.0?
My husband's sister and her husband with other family members traveled overseas early in the year and did not feel any difference in their treatment. Just wondering if that has changed?
I just returned from Europe and the sentiment was overwhelmingly one of sadness and compassionate pity. Especially when they realized you did not vote for the monster…
Ginny, it depends on where 1 goes. I was in Costa Rica in March. It was amazing. The people were amazing. I was disgusted to be from the US. I didn't feel any difference in the treatment. As soon as I got into a car or a cart at 1 place for a group to go to a different part of the hotel, I apologized for all that trump, etc. were doing.
So right! Shame on Jake Tapper for pandering, the media for going along, and shame on all of us for not standing stronger against the destruction of our democracy.
We are about to have a King. This is from Robert Reich's substack this morning:
So what’s next? Will the Supreme Court and lower courts hold the administration in contempt and enforce contempt citations?
Not if the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.
The effect is to block the Judiciary's ability to check the executive. That makes it unconstitutional, but the wording appears to qualify it for the reconciliation process. The parliamentarian needs to strip this clause, or it needs to be challenged in court with an immediate injunction to block effect.
"The effect is to block the Judiciary's ability to check the executive. That makes it unconstitutional..."
If that language survives and the bill is passed and signed into law, then it should be challenged and presented to SCOTUS. Better call Norm...
Donations and court fees are not "appropriated funds", are they? Someone want to start a SAVE THE USA gofundme?
About to? No, we have a king now.
And he's an evil one.
"Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation."
This translation is not a complete explanation. What does "appropriated funds" mean regarding a contempt citation? Aren't the courts funded by the Judiciary Branch (not the DOJ)? Is the funding of any of the three branches of government considered "appropriated funding"? If that's the case, can a particular court trying the contempt charge be funded by private donations, as someone else has suggested?
No, that is wrong - not a king, but a fascist leader, with nazi tendencies. That is far worse, for a king, as frightening as it is, could in principle be benevolent. It is not anymore one person taking over with his cronies - the whole GOP, or at least its echelons, has gone fascist.
EI, Enabling Act.
This may come to pass. We must call our Representatives. HURRY.
"Democratic House leaders reacted with appropriate anger." And Republican leaders? And Republican leaders....? Hello? Hello?
🦗 [the faint sound of crickets in a graveyard] 🦗
One day, the MAGAT monster they created will have THEM for lunch. It's only a matter of time. Their cowardice doesn't surprise me. Their utter stupidity does.
I'm afraid they love what their fuhrer does. We underestimate their bigotry and willful ignorance when we think they're merely cowards. They have enriched themselves from robbing us right before drumpf announced his tariffs, and they lord it over the people they want deported and/or enslaved.
Their utter stupidity and callousness both surprise. The "MAGAT monster" will not turn on them. That beast is them. This is what the Republicans want. My virtually first term Representative, Rudy Yakym of Indiana, responds to every complaint with irrelevant blather about how he is fighting hard for the people of his district, while supporting a bill that cuts Medicaid and Medicare. There is no reason for Trump to turn against Republicans because they've already sold their souls to him for a pittance.
With so many GOP reps against signing THE BBB yesterday...don't you wonder what scared them so badly that they relented?
He's well-known for terrorizing them. He will call them on their private cellphones and scream and threaten. And it's not for any public good, but to pay off the Trump gangster family, to prevent them from getting primaried or their families from being threatened. Not a pretty sight.
I don't think any of them, and esp their leadership, are worried about the 2026 elections. In addition to obnoxious things that many states continue to do to make voting extremely difficult if not impossible for some, pretty sure the elections themselves will be rigged.... And why not? Even without rendering the courts "powerless", what's to keep them from ignoring the results and installing who they want anyway?
The GOP Congress are terrified that if they utter even a peep of protest, that Trump will go on FOX News and call them 'Cucks or RINO's; and then endorse their next primary challenger. Yet 90% of the Base are still ecstatic over Trump's conduct so far, mainly because RW media doesn't cover, or sugar-coats the personal financial pain coming--or already being inflicted--on the bottom 99%.
Unfortunately, the only thing that will wake the adoring GOP fanboyz from their fantasy is sufficient economic pain. Then and only then will they realize that Trump is just another Hugo Chavez.
Tell us what to do
Tell your Republican Senators what to do with this piece of shit for a bill. Remind them that Congress has no constitutional authority to tell judges how they should rule, and remind them that they'll be violating their own oaths of office should they for that amendment. Ask them how they will explain their vote to anyone on Medicare or why supporting a new $2.6 trillion debt over 10 years is in anybody's interest, and ask them point blank do they even understand what is happening to US bond markets and why. Good luck.
Since when do Republicans care about their oath? Unless it is the oath to do whatever Dear Leader wants.
Good advice.
The idea that Republicans are “cowering” incorrectly implies that they are unhappy about the situation but are afraid to speak up. In fact, the GOP has been actively working toward autocratic one-party rule since the 1980s.
They have succeeded in reaching this advanced point precisely because the media, the pundits, and the Democratic Party have consistently treated GOP leaders as if they are cowards who would all come to their senses if Trump went away. Trump is simply a useful idiot.
There’s no better example of this than Marco Rubio telling Senate Democrats that their regret in voting to confirm his nomination is proof that he’s “doing a good job.” In other words, his job is not to advance US interests abroad, it’s to defeat Democrats at home.
Yes, since 1979, actually, when they used American hostages as pawns to get the old actor elected to the White House.
Agreed. The reason repubs are silent is because they are all in, all in for fascism. This is what they are and what they have always wanted.
And, I believe many of them are “bought.” Kevin Roberts, mastermind of Project 2025, said before the Hegseth confirmation, that he had $1 million dollars to get Hegseth confirmed.
What becomes more evident to me every day is that the Republican Party slipped from mainstream conservative party to authoritarian mass movement so slowly and subtly most people simply didn't see it coming.
They have staged a soft coup d'etat that took decades. With Mao-like determination and patience, the Republican coup rolled out from 1981 to 2021 (January 6, 2021, to be precise, when it flared up into violence and fanaticism) so subtly and gradually that most observers didn't notice. The few who did were scoffed at, treated like Cassandras.
The coup attempt of January 6 was a naked power grab so vicious and (and this is the important part) so clearly planned by key players within the executive branch and Congress, with the help of the massive right-wing agitprop apparatus that had grown up on social media, that if the poor old republic had still had its eye on the prize, there would have been a massive outcry from the press, instead of the sort of "nine days wonder" coverage that faded as swiftly as the coverage of your basic mass shooting, dying under a thick fog of artful mantras and Fox News talking points and public opinion polls.
More importantly, if the poor old country had still been in fighting trim there would have been swift, severe action by the incoming administration.
Mr. Biden and his Cabinet would have acknowledged the massiveness of the threat and moved to investigate and, where appropriate, to punish. We would not have seen the bland, institutional indifference of Mr. Garland's DOJ, and we would not have been subjected to dated rhetoric from the Democratic Congressional leadership and the White House---we're all Americans, we're one people, let's move on, Trump is gone now so let it pass.
By 2021 the old country was so weak and polarized, the corruption and capitulation of the "go-along-and-get-along" leadership of the Democratic Party so advanced, the decades of Republican propaganda, court-packing and fiscal groundwork so effective, that Mr. Trump's authoritarian coup d'etat, planned during his first administration, launched in earnest in 2021 and escalated ruthlessly through the 2024 election and beyond, was for all intents and purposes unstoppable: a fait accompli.
And the amazing thing is that the leaders of the Democratic Party and the nation's premier reporters didn't see it coming; gave every appearance of refusing to see it coming.
Some of them still don't see it.
That old saw about boiling a frog in a pot--turning up the heat so gradually that by the time the poor frog notices, it's just too damn late--turns out to be a realistic depiction of what happened to the USA.
Merrick Garland was the worst possible pick at the worst time. His failure to rise to the gravity of the moment was both obvious and pathetic.
I said that for the duration of the Biden administration, and ended up writing Biden 30 emails about Garland and others. If he had done his job, Trump would be in jail. By the time that Jack Smith got the case, with all the Aileen Cannon delays, he wasn’t able to go to court in time to find Trump guilty!
Well said.
The "normalization" and seeming tacit acceptance by our mainstream media of this regime's strongman tactics is unbelievable! Yes, where is the outrage?
The time to act is now. Find and join a nearby chapter of a group such as Indivisible https://indivisible.org/ and become a pro-democracy activist. Work toward bringing the 3.5% rule within our reach: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world . It may be our best/last hope of setting things right.
At least USA Today called it "Trump's Deficit-Swelling Tax Bill."
More like "Deficit-Swilling."
I agree, but we may be making that "3.5% rule" too much of a magic bullet. It's a good goal, but in and of itself, it will not do anything. At 3.5% or 3.1% in opposition, the power in this country has already shifted to the oligarchs over the last forty years and the Christian Nationalist of the Evangelical and Catholic variety who have institutionalized their view of what a woman's rights are have aided and abetted the demonizing and disempowerment of the liberal positions on race -- has anyone really protested the nearly universal abandonment of the mild mannered initiatives of DEI? We live in a country that declares "all men are created equal," and the Trump years have reminded us that that only means white Protestant men who own property -- lots of property -- and are willing to go along with the dictator. Trump is worse than a King. King George III had to deal with a Parliament that at times opposed him. Trump faces no meaningful opposition in Congress. The Courts have thwarted him somewhat so far, but he ignores them when he chooses too, and many people we all know, good liberals who will never vote for Trump, sit on their hands, carp at Biden, diminish Harris, and say there's nothing they can do.
It is time to act. I'm joining an organization today, and also sending a version of my comment to my politicians, and some activist organization. This campaign against us and our democracy was initiated by Kevin Roberts, CEO of The Heritage Foundation, and mastermind behind Project 2025. When Americans learned about it and hated it, Trump pretended he knew nothing about it, won the election, and implemented it the first day.
His One Big Beautiful Bill was always their goal. The $4.5 trillion tax cuts are an extension of the cuts Trump made for the rich and corporations in 2017, and represents the revenue that will be lost in the next ten years. If it is passed as part of this budget, it will make these cuts permanent. And, independent of what Trump says, some of it could be enacted as soon as October, during the new fiscal year. It will be funded by the massive governmental cuts and firings, and funding from Medicaid, and SNAP (food stamps). So, the rich will get richer on the backs of all Americans.
The most effective way to fight this, would be to consolidate all like-minded groups (as Roberts consolidated 100 conservative ones), and design a dynamite digital campaign, which includes Democrats and Never-Trumpers, while Democratic and Republican politicians travel throughout the United States, speaking in red and blue states.
Since we can't count on our leaders to have a strategy, or consider anything new, I found an inspirational quote about the power of people, from cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, who wrote: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
There is no outrage because not enough people really care. They are so busy partying, watching action television on apps and playing online games that they are too entertained and distracted to pay attention.
SO TRUE!!!
If one observes the Trump regime on a spectrum we see behavior that rewards grift and enrichment for the “Don” to meting out arrest and punishment to federal and state officials doing their jobs. A pair of DoD stooges sign for an aging ‘free’ 747 that will be given to Trump, and will cost tax payers $1 BILLION to upgrade, “…leave the keys in the President’s Oval Office desk drawer…”. On the other end are the arrest of a state Judge for the way she ran her chambers, and charges against a Democrat Congressional representative doing her job. What these arrests share in common is they involve women and circle around the treatment of immigrants of color. If you are a white South African, on the other hand, you receive endangered species treatment. One hopes the midterms will have Trump and his cabinet on the defensive.
I don’t want those grifters on the defensive— I want them OUT!
Mainstream media is the problem. They won’t report or they do it with misinformation or disinformation – – or maybe nothing at all. Really pathetic.
And in the meantime Jake TRapper writes a tell all book about something everyone already knows about as some sort of manifesto, pouring gas on embers to keep it going. I’m done with you Jake the Snake. 🐍
It seems like jake is working for putin.
Agreed. Give Associated Press a try. AP is independent, nonprofit , and global in scope and focused on news/reporting, not advice columnists and censored opinion.
Thanks so much Jen for the great travel tips! It is a great counterbalance to the horrors going on in our own country.
Thank you. After seeing George Clooney in “Good Night and Good Luck,” I’m even more sorry that we have no Edward R Murrows with prime time shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Cowards.
Carol, there was a news story that said Clooney's last performance will be taped for PBS or Netflix, etc. I'll see if I can find the source.
It’s being done by CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/entertainment/george-clooney-broadway-play-cnn-televise?cid=ios_app
Thank you. As much as I despise that network for turning into faux lite, I'll still turn in to watch Good Night and Good Luck. I might have to DVR it.
Republicans reject representative democracy and a Constitutional Republic because they prefer fascism. And as long as most of them can kid themselves that this will never turn on them, they will continue supporting it. I know my congresscon (Nick Langworthy) will, because he is attached to the short-fingered vulgarian like a remora. He's done two good things since elected; I am assuming two is his limit. I'm just ranting, because I don't know what else to do.
You make me want to travel overseas. Hopefully someday I will. I'm wondering in your travels have you felt uncomfortable by being an American in another country during the time of trump 2.0?
My husband's sister and her husband with other family members traveled overseas early in the year and did not feel any difference in their treatment. Just wondering if that has changed?
I just returned from Europe and the sentiment was overwhelmingly one of sadness and compassionate pity. Especially when they realized you did not vote for the monster…
Ginny, it depends on where 1 goes. I was in Costa Rica in March. It was amazing. The people were amazing. I was disgusted to be from the US. I didn't feel any difference in the treatment. As soon as I got into a car or a cart at 1 place for a group to go to a different part of the hotel, I apologized for all that trump, etc. were doing.
Great column, Jen. However, regarding the side trip. George Sand (singular)! Thanks for all you do.
So right! Shame on Jake Tapper for pandering, the media for going along, and shame on all of us for not standing stronger against the destruction of our democracy.
Thanks Jen; Keep speaking up.......It really does "Take a Village" (Hillary C. )
Magacy Media. Call it out.