Wow, Olivia, you swung for the bleachers and hit a grand slam. There are no more questions about how could this happen...it did, so let's get him and his rotten apples out of there.
Fiona Hill was one of the really brave people to speak out against tRump 1.0 machinations re: Ukraine, and got forced out for truth-telling. Also put Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in that category...truth to power, and you're out. Which, I suppose, leads to tRump 2.0, and flunkies, bootlickers, and liars staffing his regime...it's who they are, full stop.
Couldn't agree more, Jennifer. Reads like an indictment, which sounds like a good idea to me. What a miserable ten years it has been since he came on the scene. Remember how it used to not really matter who the president was? Sure, we cared and voted, but when the smoke cleared, life went on and we didn't have to worry about an egomaniac tearing our coundtry apart. If we do survive Trump, and sometimes, given the gullibility and naivete of the MAGA cult members I wonder if we will, I think we will emerge deeply scarred.
Thanks for this great article that speaks truth to power and tells it like it really is! Yes years ago we voted and if we didn’t get who we picked life went on without much turmoil. Now every day is turmoil with Trump.
What a powerful message for all of us, Olivia!! We know about his hoax fetish but you revealed it so precisely and so saliently that no one with a rational mind can turn a shoulder or a blind eye to it! Your arguments line up like ranks of soldiers on a battlefield holding the line on truth! Thank you for your writing and your work to pull us out of this hoax of a regime!!!!
If you prefer to believe the lies, have at it. The rest of us prefer the truth. And the truth is, trump's presidency is a hoax. Based on nothing more than a washed up celebrity reality TV show host who was depicted as a successful businessman. That was the hoax. Fortunately, a lot of his so called followers are beginning to, dare I say it, WAKE UP!
For me, one of the things that confirmed the type of low life creature that trump is, was when he ordered those war planes to be flown over the meeting of the epstein/trump victims. Since then, of course, the death, brutality and cruelty has increased and, l think, will keep increasing until the fascist thugocracy is no more.
I’ve been waiting for you for your response on all this. You make so much sense of course well said. You wrote this wonderful. How can he say hoax to all the victims? Were they a hoax? It’s like he’s saying to them you’re all lying. It didn’t happen. This is made up. Like they have to go through all this again. The people that didn’t believe them.
Nicely laid out timeline. I just hope enough people remember to not get fooled anymore. That’s how we got here in the first place. People either forgot the first administration or were in self denial. I don’t k ow which is worse.
Thank you for all you do Olivia! Another overused word that could be a simile is "witchhunt"! They could be exchangeable in most conversations. And my favorite word "WOKE"! It means something completely different but "HE" has used that word too often (not truly knowing what it means) and one more is Antifa. I could go on and on. Basically he just spews whatever his brain thinks in any moment! No matter what! But of course when he says it's a hoax (Epstein) why oh why did Ghislaine get a commuted sentence in a minimum security prison. I think it says it all!
I forged Jeff’s 2003 birthday card, as part of the Democratic army of hoaxers, moving on to Jewish space lasers in homage to my father’s participation, like Jack White’s mother, in Apollo 11. The moon landing, Lauren. My enmity toward Donald began while reading SPY, nursing my two older sons.
Wow, Olivia, you swung for the bleachers and hit a grand slam. There are no more questions about how could this happen...it did, so let's get him and his rotten apples out of there.
Fiona Hill was one of the really brave people to speak out against tRump 1.0 machinations re: Ukraine, and got forced out for truth-telling. Also put Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in that category...truth to power, and you're out. Which, I suppose, leads to tRump 2.0, and flunkies, bootlickers, and liars staffing his regime...it's who they are, full stop.
Couldn't agree more, Jennifer. Reads like an indictment, which sounds like a good idea to me. What a miserable ten years it has been since he came on the scene. Remember how it used to not really matter who the president was? Sure, we cared and voted, but when the smoke cleared, life went on and we didn't have to worry about an egomaniac tearing our coundtry apart. If we do survive Trump, and sometimes, given the gullibility and naivete of the MAGA cult members I wonder if we will, I think we will emerge deeply scarred.
Thanks for this great article that speaks truth to power and tells it like it really is! Yes years ago we voted and if we didn’t get who we picked life went on without much turmoil. Now every day is turmoil with Trump.
If Trump read this there’d be no doubt he’d label it a HOAX - a badge of honor if ever there was one.
If there were a MAGA Anonymous recovery group (which hopefully there will be very soon) this essay would be it’s manifesto. Perfection.
Leavingmaga.org
Brilliantly written and true. Thank you, Olivia!!
What a powerful message for all of us, Olivia!! We know about his hoax fetish but you revealed it so precisely and so saliently that no one with a rational mind can turn a shoulder or a blind eye to it! Your arguments line up like ranks of soldiers on a battlefield holding the line on truth! Thank you for your writing and your work to pull us out of this hoax of a regime!!!!
If you prefer to believe the lies, have at it. The rest of us prefer the truth. And the truth is, trump's presidency is a hoax. Based on nothing more than a washed up celebrity reality TV show host who was depicted as a successful businessman. That was the hoax. Fortunately, a lot of his so called followers are beginning to, dare I say it, WAKE UP!
For me, one of the things that confirmed the type of low life creature that trump is, was when he ordered those war planes to be flown over the meeting of the epstein/trump victims. Since then, of course, the death, brutality and cruelty has increased and, l think, will keep increasing until the fascist thugocracy is no more.
Excellent post and best explanation I’ve read. Please share widely. Thank you Olivia.
Great post, Olivia, you nailed this one!
Something I learned in my high school civics' class during Nixon's presidency: "When you establish a pattern, you create intent".
Hard to understand how there are still some ignorant people still falling for his crap.
Brainwashing by fox etc.
I’ve been waiting for you for your response on all this. You make so much sense of course well said. You wrote this wonderful. How can he say hoax to all the victims? Were they a hoax? It’s like he’s saying to them you’re all lying. It didn’t happen. This is made up. Like they have to go through all this again. The people that didn’t believe them.
Yup! All of this is so true! Now let's untangle the idiot's irritating use of "witch hunt".
Yes he does over use that term also, and it is usually a false allegation!
Miscreant Trump is the ultimate hoax that the mental pathology of psychopathy plays on the normality of sanity and objective reality.
Nicely laid out timeline. I just hope enough people remember to not get fooled anymore. That’s how we got here in the first place. People either forgot the first administration or were in self denial. I don’t k ow which is worse.
Thank you for all you do Olivia! Another overused word that could be a simile is "witchhunt"! They could be exchangeable in most conversations. And my favorite word "WOKE"! It means something completely different but "HE" has used that word too often (not truly knowing what it means) and one more is Antifa. I could go on and on. Basically he just spews whatever his brain thinks in any moment! No matter what! But of course when he says it's a hoax (Epstein) why oh why did Ghislaine get a commuted sentence in a minimum security prison. I think it says it all!
After the government is overturned. The word Hoax should be banned and all of the words he banned should be brought back.
I forged Jeff’s 2003 birthday card, as part of the Democratic army of hoaxers, moving on to Jewish space lasers in homage to my father’s participation, like Jack White’s mother, in Apollo 11. The moon landing, Lauren. My enmity toward Donald began while reading SPY, nursing my two older sons.