Trump Indictment Shows Again That Republicans Are Suckers and Cowards

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  • @Inscriptions37
    @Inscriptions37 Рік тому +124

    Possibly the most telling thing Trump has said in his entire "political career" is when he remarked recently about how his base doesn't seem to care about lowering taxes anymore---but when he denigrates "transgenderism," they give him standing ovations, even though "five years ago, people didn't even know what that was." He explained his grift to their faces, and they laughed and nodded along. All he ever does is tell them what he thinks they want to hear, because he has no ideals of his own. He's like if ChatGPT had been trained on nothing but Fox News and InfoWars transcripts.

    • @AaronLitz
      @AaronLitz Рік тому

      Trump doesn't actually have any ideology. People call him a Fascist, but that isn't actually correct; fascists have an ideology... it's a vile and evil ideology, but still an ideology. Trump certainly is a _demagogue,_ but not a Fascist demagogue. All Trump actually cares about is self-aggrandizement and ego. The only kind of ideology I could really ascribe to Trump that would even come close to fitting would be Nihilist Powermonger.
      Trump's only ideology is _ID._

    • @Huron2010A
      @Huron2010A Рік тому +6

      Both George Wallace & Lee Atwater made the same points.

    • @aaronsarchive82
      @aaronsarchive82 10 місяців тому +6

      "You knew I was a snake when you let me in."

  • @ariadnavigo
    @ariadnavigo Рік тому +160

    "They like Trump because (...) he absolves them of their bigotry". Never truer words have been spoken.

    • @Vermic12
      @Vermic12 Рік тому

      Trump is aspirational to bigoted, ignorant abusers because they need to believe being a bigoted, ignorant abuser is a winning strategy. They need to believe in a world where someone like them can succeed or at least avoid punishment.

    • @LadyAstarionAncunin
      @LadyAstarionAncunin Рік тому +5

      I’ve always said that the ONLY thing that’ll break up his cult is if be stopped being a bigot. The only thing for certain.

    • @DylanMadd
      @DylanMadd Рік тому +5

      I rather think he reenforces it by telling them they’re right to think whatever it is they think…. Today… depending on whichever way the wind is blowing.

    • @aliensarerealttsa6198
      @aliensarerealttsa6198 Рік тому +1

      The right always supports communism because they are all psychopaths.

  • @oldgus01
    @oldgus01 Рік тому +147

    Minor correction, Steve:
    The reason Trump keeps losing lawyers has almost nothing to do with the certainty of his guilt. Defense lawyers join up for that job knowing they will have to provide the best legal advice they can for a client who may be guilty as sin.
    No, the reasons Trump sheds lawyers are:
    1. Repeatedly refusing to heed professional legal advice
    2. Refusing to pay his lawyers their agreed-upon fees
    3. Repeatedly asking his lawyers to help him do more crimes or cover up crimes he has already done, both serious ethical violations that in addition to prosecution, could see them disbarred and banned from practicing law in the future.
    When a client commits one of these transgressions against their lawyer, said lawyer is in their rights to fire their client.
    Edit: So to summarize, the former host of "The Apprentice" is running out of lawyers because he keeps getting fired. Which... Honestly, is on par with learning that lawyers can fire clients from watching SovCit cases? I can't tell which is more entertaining.

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 Рік тому +7

      Probably the only thing Trump knows about lawyers is Jim Carrey's performance in "Liar Liar" LOL

    • @Coyote001
      @Coyote001 Рік тому +24

      Especially reason number 2: he stiffs EVERYBODY.

    • @Hellbane224
      @Hellbane224 Рік тому +15

      4. He keeps throwing them under the bus.

    • @wurdnurd1
      @wurdnurd1 Рік тому

      MAGA = make attorneys get attorneys

    • @davidioanhedges
      @davidioanhedges Рік тому +10

      He also keeps lying to his own lawyers... then blames them

  • @igmusicandflying
    @igmusicandflying Рік тому +59

    Funny thing is I used to be a Republican (yes kids, there USED to be liberal Republicans!) and got off that train because I thought the GOP had become too radical, anti-intellectual, and bigoted way back in 1994 with Newt and the Contract On America (yes, they called it the Contract With America, I'm calling it what it was). Oh, to be that innocent again.
    Anyhow, it's interesting to me that if Trump simply would've come clean at the get-go, said "sorry, these were taken by mistake, by all means take them to the Archives!" he wouldn't be in nearly the hot water he is in. But he is fundamentally incapable of admitting error or being mistaken so thoroughly that he's made himself a world of hurt rather than admit fault, to the point of doubling down on it and hiding the documents from even his own lawyers.

    • @aliensarerealttsa6198
      @aliensarerealttsa6198 Рік тому

      That's great but why would you ever join the antidemocratic confederates? That wasn't too extreme/radical for you?
      You actually thought they weren't communists at one point?

    • @Ms.Byrd68
      @Ms.Byrd68 7 місяців тому

      All he had to do was RETURN them. If he _geniunely_ believed he won the election then he would have been confident of proving it sooner or later, which would make those documents HIS again! There are so many times he just could have admitted 'ignorance' or being wrong about that would have perhaps even won support from some Conservative Democrats in the end but _Nooooo!_ He knew he lost and it killed him that _Obama's VICE PRESIDENT _*_BEAT HIM!_*

    • @SkySong6161
      @SkySong6161 7 місяців тому +1

      Considering the "guests" Mar-a-Largo hosts and the fact that he enjoyed showing off the documents to as many people as he could, I sincerely doubt these were kept "by mistake." He took them and kept them on purpose in order to show off. I'd like to think he'd be sensible enough to try and sell them, maybe, but that'd be something a competent person would do.

  • @rantandroll7583
    @rantandroll7583 Рік тому +22

    If only we had done some investigation before 2016. Not that I personally didn't already know what a POS he is. Ask any NY/NJ contractor what they think about him.

    • @shalinib108
      @shalinib108 Рік тому +7

      Exactly!!! I grew up in south jersey, near Atlantic City. Back then, to the people in NY/NJ he was a joke to point and laugh at in the tabloids. That is, unless you were trying to do business with him, then it was no laughing matter…. he was an s.o.b. to cuss about.. he severely damaged or destroyed a great number of small family businesses in the AC area during the trump casino years. The rest of country saw him playing a (fictional) savvy businessman on tv… and apparently quite a few believed that he actually was that character. If only the people of NYC and AC (and Scotland!) could somehow convince the maga crowd that they’ve been duped by a disgusting con man…. but I guess it’s too late for that now. We need a verdict of guilty in an insurrection case so he can’t ever hold office again… scary times we are living in…

    • @rantandroll7583
      @rantandroll7583 Рік тому

      @@shalinib108 Well said.

    • @harryborsalino1276
      @harryborsalino1276 9 місяців тому

      @@shalinib108 Yep; I live in Memphis and when he ran in 2016, my response was, "huh?" When he got elected, my response was, "WTF?" I knew jack-s**t about him beyond his silly-ass cartoon TV show, or his ghost written book, at neither of which had I ever looked for a nanosecond. Maybe I should have. This guy is a sucking chest wound on the body politic, that stinks of all the gangrenous poison in American society.

    • @djwaffle
      @djwaffle 9 місяців тому

      Yeah. I knew way back when he was a crook. He has always had that mobster vibe about him. He also gave me the creep pedo vibe and then well you know what he has said about his own daughter or what he did to E. Jean Carroll and still defames her to this day. What blows my mind is this asinine legal doctrine of not indicting a sitting president, especially when they have him dead to rights with his hand in the cookie jar.

    • @ArgueWithTheMajority
      @ArgueWithTheMajority 9 місяців тому

      It was completely, abundantly clear what a hateful, dishonest, despicable, racist, criminal piece of absolute shit he was in 2016. You have to realize that this is exactly what his cult wants. And this should make you realize what you are up against. I am not an American, so I can't vote. I wish for the vast majority of Americans to come to their senses and make the fascists go away through voting and legal action. However, if you don't succeed in doing so... Any means necessary.

  • @daniellyon5011
    @daniellyon5011 Рік тому +63

    And the worst part is, even if he's convicted and sent to prison, he can still be President and be in a position to do this again.
    Make it make sense.

    • @ahouyearno
      @ahouyearno Рік тому

      If felons couldn’t become president, all republicans have to do is make every democrat a felon.
      They’ve heen doing this to african Americans for generations to take away their voting rights. As much as I despise a possible felon president Trump, it really protects our side more than it protects theirs

    • @IONATVS
      @IONATVS Рік тому

      Unless he’s convicted of Insurrection or Rebellion, which bar you from running for public office under the plain text of the 14th Amendment, unless and until overturned by a 2/3 supermajority of congress. I’m holding out a small but of hope that the other half of Jack Smith’s prosecutorial mandate will result in such a conviction over Jan 6th, though I’m definitely scared it might not. Impeachment could’ve barred him from running too, but the Republicans were too chicken-shit to follow the facts and politicized what even their leaders said should have been a slam-dunk removal.

    • @bigshow771
      @bigshow771 Рік тому

      Let's be perfectly clear, so long as Trump lives, we can not allow a Republican to win the White House. I have zero doubts that the very first act said Republican makes after taking the oath of office will be to pardon Trump, at which this starts all over again.

    • @captainjellicoe1701e
      @captainjellicoe1701e Рік тому +1

      the most we can hope for I'm afraid this house arrest becomes of who he is

    • @armorclasshero2103
      @armorclasshero2103 Рік тому +3

      It makes sense to anyone who knows America has been a 3rd world country for a long time.

  • @firefly4f4
    @firefly4f4 Рік тому +10

    If charging Trump before he's even officially the nominee is election interference according to Trump, then what does it make re-opening an investigation into "her emails" during an active presidential election?
    Could it be he's applying a gross double standard?

    • @garymelnick3247
      @garymelnick3247 11 місяців тому

      Well put firefly!!!!!!

    • @davidstorrs
      @davidstorrs 6 місяців тому

      Yeah, I'm still angry at Comey for announcing the Hillary email investigation being reopened and doing it one week before the election in violation of FBI protocols. The election was already razor thin and that may have been enough to push it from Hillary to Trump, meaning that if Comey had kept his fat mouth shut and followed ethical procedure, several hundred thousand American would still be alive after COVID and our politics might not be such an absolute dumpster fire.

  • @steveschmaling8217
    @steveschmaling8217 Рік тому +124

    I wouldn't expect Trump's supporters to stand up to him if he took their lunch money

    • @Dewydidit
      @Dewydidit Рік тому +36

      In a lot of ways he DID take their lunch money by being a millionaire begging for donations. Their lunch money is paying his lawyers while he jets back and forth between the resorts he lives at.

    • @mainely8007
      @mainely8007 Рік тому +17

      They willingly hand it over like the simps they are. He grifts off them constantly and they come back like cucks and hand him more.

    • @Blakblooded
      @Blakblooded Рік тому +15

      Ironically enough, the Republican Study Committee just recommended massive federal cuts to school lunch programs.

    • @Farren246
      @Farren246 Рік тому +6

      @@Dewydidit Paying his lawyers? Win or lose, do you actually believe he's going to pay them?

    • @DavidSmith-xs3or
      @DavidSmith-xs3or Рік тому +8

      Donny is truly a caricature oh himself; from his speech inflections and mispronunciation of words to his body language. It's no wonder stand up comedians find Trump a treasure trov of material.

  • @JustYFriend
    @JustYFriend Рік тому +21

    Watching this video from Spain, and I cannot believe Trump has any supporters left. How the hell is he the R front runner. What do they put in the water in the US??!! Dear Lord, you guys are in trouble! (and the rest of the 🌎 by extension) 🤦‍♀️😕

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 Рік тому +6

      We were in trouble the moment he was elected. It established in the eyes of the world that being the President of the United States no longer requires government experience, political acumen, or any hint of respect what-so-ever,... all it requires is to be a celebrity and good at public speaking.

    • @sharimeline3077
      @sharimeline3077 Рік тому +2

      @@k1productions87 And "good at public speaking" is even a bit shaky.

    • @Kairamek
      @Kairamek Рік тому

      Think about how stupid you think the average American is. Pretty dumb right? Half of us are dumber than that. They vote Republican.

    • @LadyAstarionAncunin
      @LadyAstarionAncunin Рік тому +1

      @@sharimeline3077 Not shaky. Flat-out untrue.

    • @floydsghost
      @floydsghost Рік тому

      Lead.

  • @djburnette87
    @djburnette87 Рік тому +5

    I did everything right and they indicted me hilarious

    • @colourfastt
      @colourfastt Рік тому +1

      He even sounded like a 3 year old

  • @WhiteThumbs
    @WhiteThumbs Рік тому +57

    Trump wasn't allowed to live at Mar when he left NewYork for Florida, He was told to actually get a real home because of tax purposes and he just....didn't.

  • @reesetorwad8346
    @reesetorwad8346 Рік тому +3

    👍 Well said.

  • @DanJackson1977
    @DanJackson1977 Рік тому +23

    What if in Star Wars, the plans of the Death Star were acquired by just walking into an Imperial bathroom and grabbing a banker's box? Espionage is always made to seem really cool in movies... the reality seems to be so much dumber.

    • @mattmorehouse9685
      @mattmorehouse9685 Рік тому

      Indeed.

    • @Sephiroth144
      @Sephiroth144 Рік тому +5

      OMG, can you believe we pulled that off?
      They were just on the table!
      I know, jeebus... ... So, shit, how do we tell them...?
      Tell them a bunch of other Bothans died getting these?
      Works for me! So, wanna grab some lunch before we head out?

  • @PaulTenorio71
    @PaulTenorio71 Рік тому +8

    You don't focus nearly enough on organized religions complicity in driving Trump's agenda. I have Hispanic family members who aren't racist, generally good people and will justify anything Trump does in the name of their God. This has been the most disturbing part of Trump's run in that he knows how to take advantage of institutions that rely on faith and are extremely ignorant and it also shed light on just how ignorant the religious groups in this country are. Thanks for the video. Excellent job!!!!

  • @tomthomas5793
    @tomthomas5793 Рік тому +18

    This is an extremely well-written video, Steve! As for the rest of you: UA-cam comments don't win elections, folks. Is everyone here registered to VOTE?💙💙💙

  • @MitchMitchellStories
    @MitchMitchellStories Рік тому +27

    This is what happens to people looking for saviors instead of learning how to take care of themselves; they get grifted. The only platform he's running on now is all the people he plans on going after "if" he gets elected president. He didn't pass anything positive when he was in the office, and he has nothing that's going to potentially helped anyone later on. It's pathetic...

  • @MrLifter20
    @MrLifter20 Рік тому +3

    No lies detected.

  • @DylanMadd
    @DylanMadd Рік тому +3

    As far as the resort thing, Rs made Jimmy Carter sell his farm b/c he couldn’t possibly have income as President. Their ‘principles’ have really gone wildly awry.

  • @verng8864
    @verng8864 6 місяців тому +1

    Right on the money every single time Steve. Thank you for your accurate take on what is obvious to the sane and bewilders the magats

  • @srvfan454
    @srvfan454 Рік тому +4

    Can we start a go fund me to build Trump his own Botany Bay style sleeper ship? We would be rid of him at least.

    • @cozmothemagician7243
      @cozmothemagician7243 Рік тому

      Captain Kirk would wipe the floor with him. (:

    • @wartgin
      @wartgin Рік тому

      Perhaps his followers would do the rest of us a favor and join him.

  • @gregmark1688
    @gregmark1688 Рік тому +4

    How about, "If you're one of the billionaire elite ruling class already, you don't also get to be President"? That seems like a decent rule we could all get together on.

  • @MultiSmartass1
    @MultiSmartass1 Рік тому +7

    Even Nixon would probably think Trump would be crazy to do this if he were alive.

    • @garymelnick3247
      @garymelnick3247 11 місяців тому +2

      What’s even scarier is that, put up next to Trump, Mr Nixon is looking better & better.

    • @aaronsarchive82
      @aaronsarchive82 10 місяців тому

      Nixon at least knew when the jig was up. Trump can't take a hint.

    • @hmnhntr
      @hmnhntr 7 місяців тому

      ​@@garymelnick3247Nixon was at least somewhat competent

    • @geerid
      @geerid 7 місяців тому

      Nixon wasn't Putin puppet. Like imagine this orange clown and he's cult fantasys their arch enemy who is telling to kill them all. Absurd

  • @aw3752
    @aw3752 Рік тому +3

    Would love to see you run for office. You have a razor sharp intellect and an even sharper tongue. Brilliant.

  • @TheCreep144
    @TheCreep144 4 місяці тому +1

    Nailed it in a way that can’t be denied, but those on the side of the soon to be convict won’t listen to a word of it even if they realize that it is true.

  • @StormsparkPegasus
    @StormsparkPegasus Рік тому +6

    Another channel put it best. "If Trump said he was wearing a red tie, and I could physically see he was wearing a red tie, I would doubt he was wearing a red tie."

  • @jeffnorris7592
    @jeffnorris7592 Рік тому +1

    Not Jeff here.I'm ever so pleased that the monster is captured because of a bunch of heroic ... librarians!

  • @darthmeticulous6901
    @darthmeticulous6901 Рік тому +1

    That was… savage as hell.
    As Farooq would say… “Damn.”

  • @Shasta--1
    @Shasta--1 Рік тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @rextrek
    @rextrek Рік тому +11

    2nd also..chk Bedminster and Ivana's Coffin that took 10 people to carry when it ONLY had Ashes in it? hmmmm

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699 Рік тому +37

    I think that the biggest reason, why Trump can't get any lawyers to defend him, has to do with his history of not paying them.

    • @jdonvance
      @jdonvance Рік тому

      I haven't been able to figure out how anyone chooses to do business with him after SO many bankruptcies, after SO many unpaid debts, after SO many former colleagues thrown under the bus.
      "Trump is going to make us rich! (with Trump Bucks, etc.)"
      Fool! You think he's just gonna start giving random people money? He doesn't even pay his bills! Or his 'friends'.

    • @shawnwales696
      @shawnwales696 Рік тому

      Don't forget, they (Trumps lawyers) also have to contend with the fact that he doesn't always listen to their legal advice, several either have been, or are on the way to being disbarred and some have been indicted/determined to have been involved in criminal conspiracy and/or gone to prison because of Trump. I'm sure it's not all about the money, a big chunk of it is about whether the lawyers will still have viable careers after representing Trump. Guess they are betting on "no".

    • @OverworkedITGuy
      @OverworkedITGuy Рік тому +5

      And not listening to any of them.
      And trying to get them to facilitate him committing more crimes.

  • @brucemorris3830
    @brucemorris3830 Рік тому +2

    That’s really funny, because literally yesterday I brought up and briefly explained the Dunning Kruger Effect at work, regarding our immediate supervisors, and one of my co workers immediately said “Oh, you mean like Trump?” 😂😂😂

  • @joanwerthman4116
    @joanwerthman4116 Рік тому +1

    After so many years, I get to crow, "LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HOM UP!"

  • @jamesdeen8933
    @jamesdeen8933 Рік тому +5

    Trump is like a Bizarro Superman. Things that would hurt another person seems to make him stronger. You might be right but it’s going to be very long and painful road.

  • @armorart
    @armorart 10 місяців тому +1

    You are the best!

  • @robertmcdonnold3038
    @robertmcdonnold3038 Рік тому +1

    Just found your channel. Thanks
    Bob

  • @TheKruz-ox6fo
    @TheKruz-ox6fo Рік тому +5

    This is therapy. Thanks, Steve!

  • @wendyking2769
    @wendyking2769 Рік тому +10

    The photocopier in the hallway photo is disturbing, returning the files seems almost irrelevant if they were so easily accessible in close proximity to the copier. More folks think the bathroom is interesting but that hallway shot doesn't seem to get much attention.

    • @DavidBarkland
      @DavidBarkland Рік тому

      While I know nothing about how US national security intelligence handles security leaks, not being american, if it is _anything_ like corporate-sector intel any documents are considered compromised the moment they leak and recovery is just to confirm which ones it is. I'd be surprised if the Pentagon hasn't already retracted all plans and covers dependent on them.

    • @LadyAstarionAncunin
      @LadyAstarionAncunin Рік тому +1

      I have no doubt that he already sold some files (or copies of them, at least). But you’re absolutely right.

  • @78jpeg
    @78jpeg 11 місяців тому +2

    "I did everything right and they indicted me" sounds to me like a child whining and crying about not getting his cookies and milk

    • @tally9542
      @tally9542 4 місяці тому

      I mean he basically is one lol

  • @peterschairer488
    @peterschairer488 Рік тому +2

    Knowing Trump for who he is I'm surprised the boxes aren't gold.

  • @davecrowson448
    @davecrowson448 Рік тому +1

    Word.

  • @stevenjones2673
    @stevenjones2673 Рік тому +2

    Could we get this broadcast read out loud in the voice of Patrick Stewart? That is the only improvement I can come up with.

  • @shigshug8581
    @shigshug8581 10 місяців тому +1

    Now he has 4 indictments.

  • @sawedoff3111
    @sawedoff3111 Рік тому +6

    This is 15 minutes of absolutely scathing and accurate commentary and I am here for it! Take my subscription good sir. Between this and Starfleet Lawyer you have more than earned it.

  • @eidrenkeeg6487
    @eidrenkeeg6487 Рік тому +2

    Amen

  • @cerberus144
    @cerberus144 Рік тому +61

    I used to be a Republican. I went to young Republican meetings and voted for every Republican candidate Rush Limbaugh told me to vote for. When Trump won the nomination and I was so incredibly baffled! How could anyone fall for this noted liar and conman's bullshit?! The day after the primaries I went down to city hall and reregistered as an independent.

    • @paulonius42
      @paulonius42 Рік тому

      Trump was the perfect representative of the Republican Party when he started his campaign in 2015. He represented all of the racism, corruption, stupidity, criminality, and hatred for America and Americans that are the guiding principles of the Republican Party. If you were baffled, it's because you didn't pay attention to what the party actually was while you were a member.

    • @muskyoxes
      @muskyoxes Рік тому +15

      Do you think that tax cuts for the rich create jobs? If not, you could have left a long time ago, since the republican party has never had any other real policy

    • @abbyh5158
      @abbyh5158 Рік тому +5

      This. I hate DeSantis, probably more than I hate Trump but I get why people would vote for DeSantis. I cannot fathom why you'd vote for Trump.

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 Рік тому

      Its worse than that. Donald Trump winning the Presidency has forever tarnished the office of President of the United States. No longer does it require experience in offices of government, no longer does it require political acumen, no longer does it require even the slightest hint of respect for the institution itself (much less others), no longer does it require any semblance of competency in the role.
      No... the election of Donald Trump has proven to all the nations of the world that the only thing required for holding the highest office in the most wealthy and powerful nation on the planet... is to be a celebrity.
      Any respect we may have earned in the eyes of other nations -PFFFT- gone. Any legitimacy we may have had on the world stage as a nation capable (much less worthy) of maintaining the leading role we claim to have -PFFFT- gone. And if his mere election didn't already accomplish all of that, his actions as President further cemented it in stone, showing the rest of the world that we are never to be trusted with any agreements we make.

    • @danielgertler5976
      @danielgertler5976 Рік тому +2

      I can see people who are being told what they want falling for it. What astounded me was Trump winning a federal election where he had to play to more than just that base.

  • @DonDueed
    @DonDueed Рік тому +2

    Excellent rant. Reminds me of Jonathan Pie's commentary on British politics.

  • @tylers.4481
    @tylers.4481 Рік тому +3

    I hate that this country is governed by two categorically right-wing parties. We, as Americans, are nescient of the fact that our political system is which has been subsumed by corporatocracy and right-wing extremism, which was engendered by embracing Neoliberalism during the 1980s under Reagan-a Neoconservative war criminal without whom politicians like George W. Bush and Trump would not exist.
    Americans believe that the sole determinant of a person’s political affiliation is their disposition toward “controversial” social issues, like abortion, gay marriage, trans rights, racial equality, etc. even though these social issues are considered fundamental human rights in every other fully industrialized nation in the world. A person’s political affiliation, in actuality, is contingent upon their socioeconomic views, which is why the Democratic Party is a staunchly right-wing party; they, like their Republican contemporaries, support military interventionism in other countries, while steadfastly opposing the creation of an actual social welfare state in this country, to the extent that right-wing parties which exist in other industrialized nations, like the UK Conservative Party, the CDU (In Germany), and the Australian Liberal Party, would be characterized as leftist parties in this country, while the Republican Party could not exist in these aforementioned countries, because it’s a fascist party which would be banned. Also, we literally do not have any leftist parties or politicians in this country, which is why it’s so risible that Republicans accuse conservatives like Joe Biden of being “left-wing extremists.” Even Bernie Sanders is only a Social Democrat, and would be considered a centrist in all other industrialized countries. Thus, liberals are too demonstrably ignorant and vacuous to vote for a social democrat, like Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, or Marianne Williamson in the impending general election, which will allow a reactionary like Trump, or a fascist like DeSantis, to trounce Creepy Joe in 2024.

  • @Ruby_Eve
    @Ruby_Eve 3 місяці тому

    Keeping those documents at his resort seems like the most dangerous scavenger hunt

  • @eriklindstedt4314
    @eriklindstedt4314 Рік тому +11

    First: I do have a lot of love and respect for all of you in the US of A! ❤️ ...but come on guys?! 330mil people and he is one of your two most fit for running your country? Really? //Best wishes from Sweden! 🇸🇪

    • @ateamfan42
      @ateamfan42 Рік тому +2

      The people who support him don't do so because they conducted a logical assessment of his leadership ability. They support him because they want to belong to a cult that tells them what to think and gives them permission to hate other groups of people.

    • @ahouyearno
      @ahouyearno Рік тому +2

      A grade countries elect a grade leaders. B grade countries elect C grade leaders

    • @Inscriptions37
      @Inscriptions37 Рік тому +1

      I wouldn't use the term "most fit." I think to some degree, if only on a subconscious level, the people who support Trump do so because they know he ISN'T fit to be president---at least, not in a conventional sense; They dislike and distrust our federal government and want someone to torpedo it from the inside. They also just like that he kicks down at marginalized people, because it makes them feel better about themselves. He's popular with an ideological minority whose political power has been unfairly augmented through decades of their elected representatives rigging the system. And unfortunately us Americans seem to care more about likeability than we do about actual qualifications and policy, statistically speaking. It infuriates many of us, myself included, on a daily basis, and I can't apologize enough for the fact that we created Donald Trump and unleashed him on the rest of the world.

    • @eriklindstedt4314
      @eriklindstedt4314 Рік тому

      ​@@ahouyearnoperhaps so... but let's all agree to stick with the 'a kind' then and problem's globaly solved?! 😜

    • @eriklindstedt4314
      @eriklindstedt4314 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Inscriptions37Wow! Not always getting balanced responses in the YT-comment sections!! (Perhaps a sign of a good channel...😉) And sure: I do know that you've been 'suffering' from your electorial system combined with a long period of gerrymandering so I absolutely see your point. (And pardon my spelling and perhaps 'wrong' choice of wording...😉) ...but still. Him?? 😜

  • @LukeSilver-fe7iv
    @LukeSilver-fe7iv 8 місяців тому +1

    My grandma may she not rest in peace made every excuse for Donald Trump she even donated most of her stimulus check to him it's absolutely sickening. Even after mara logo even after the tear gas incident and January 6 she fully supported him with till her last day. And I will never stop talking about it

  • @zelest
    @zelest Рік тому +9

    Came here for the Star Trek skits, staying for the political commentary!

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 Рік тому +4

      Well, political commentary is essentially what Star Trek is after all :P

  • @dennisbergendorfii5440
    @dennisbergendorfii5440 Рік тому +1

    45 WOULD be in big trouble, if the judge in this case weren't one of his appointees.

  • @wooddavid8293
    @wooddavid8293 7 місяців тому +1

    Dang! This is a great rant!

  • @78jpeg
    @78jpeg 11 місяців тому +1

    You forgot to say a 🙄👉 a rich man begging his supporters for money for his legal bills

  • @Zatnicatel
    @Zatnicatel 8 місяців тому

    That's a really good Trump impression!

  • @patcarmichael4876
    @patcarmichael4876 11 місяців тому +1

    Hi Steve, I'm a new responder and contributor, so here goes, be nice.
    Have you ever heard of anybody, former president, CEO or ANYBODY, who would do anything like this? It's mindboggling. The man has no fear! Or shame.
    You had many good points. I have just one question why?
    Thanks
    Patricia Carmichael

  • @bronzeageancientone4844
    @bronzeageancientone4844 Рік тому +2

    If only his supporters could read anything...

  • @buckocean7616
    @buckocean7616 Рік тому +2

    I'm gonna put this question on your Ask Me Anything Steve. But would you consider going on The Young Turks occasionally? I'd love to see you engage with other Progressive voices. This was soooo good❕

  • @saml302
    @saml302 Рік тому +1

    37?!? In a row?

  • @graafisk
    @graafisk Рік тому

    I wish you were my neighbor. Oh, the beers we could have on the front porch or back yard. Love ya, bro.

  • @autodidactic
    @autodidactic Рік тому +2

    7:48 ladies and gentlemen, President Cartman

  • @bizarrebraincomics7819
    @bizarrebraincomics7819 Рік тому +16

    Shows that our elected officials need to have more instruction on proper handling of classified material just as it is pounded into us when serving in the military.

    • @llaboe
      @llaboe Рік тому +7

      ANY government employee granted a clearence (at ANY level) recieves precisely what you did in the military. Many years ago as an employee of NASA Office of Space Sciences I was granted a clearance and my experience was EXACTLY as you described. Also, we were ASSURED IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that if we violated those rules the punishment would be SWIFT AND SEVERE!!!!

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 Рік тому

      Or that those who seek to hold the position of "Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces" must himself (or herself) have served in the military at some point. Being dishonorably discharged from said military must also serve as a disqualification from eligibility (with some wiggle-room for exceptions, in instances of blame for their superior's misdeeds and so forth)

    • @OverworkedITGuy
      @OverworkedITGuy Рік тому +6

      Trump was instructed. Repeatedly. He just plain doesn't care.

    • @IONATVS
      @IONATVS Рік тому +2

      @@llaboeame experience even working for a private company in the defense sector. If you so much as THINK about classified material in an unapproved way you’d better report yourself immediately and pray that the Feds’ll be merciful. If you *actually* mishandle that info, you’ll be behind bars before you can say “yankee doodle.”

    • @lisam5744
      @lisam5744 Рік тому

      Yep...as a soldier and then as civilian contract worker who handled classified information daily, I can say mishandling classified documents was something you did NOT want to do/be accused of because the Federal government (military included) take it VERY seriously.

  • @reelsoffortuneslotsplay4267
    @reelsoffortuneslotsplay4267 Рік тому +1

    They are not suckers... They are simply of the belief that if he breaks the law... He is going to do harm to others.... But not to them... I guess it's like knowing there is a bully but that is OK as long as he gives the impression he is not out to harm them

  • @theschwartzawakens9021
    @theschwartzawakens9021 Рік тому +19

    Loud, angry, and VIOLENT suckers.

  • @Jayleon72
    @Jayleon72 Рік тому +1

    No lies detected

  • @nipstyler
    @nipstyler Рік тому +1

    Thanks for saying how it is. Also love your use of the phrase 'shit rags'..

  • @mnirwin5112
    @mnirwin5112 Рік тому

    But ... IS he "in real trouble"? The judge overseeing his trial in the Florida documents case is a known hard-core Trump supporter.

  • @martinbaxter4783
    @martinbaxter4783 Рік тому +1

    For those who, like myself, wisely skipped his Faux/Fixed/Fox Almost-News ‘interview’ - OrangeClownBoi is now claiming that, when he left the White House, he took the document boxes because they were more xed in with boxes of golf hats and shirts and the like, and couldn't POSSIBLY have known. (Can’t read?)

  • @castironchaos
    @castironchaos Рік тому +5

    The details surrounding this "classified documents" situation brings up the question "why the hell did he keep these documents in the first place?" Considering all of the stupid things he's done regarding them, I can only conclude he kept the documents JUST BECAUSE HE WANTED TO KEEP THEM. Their subject matter wasn't why he kept them...he just wanted to keep them. Trump is a billionaire real estate baron -- a billionare with mountains of debt, but a billionaire nonetheless -- and he can buy pretty much anything he wants. To a guy like him, mere possessions are unimportant. A Lamborghini? Big deal, he can buy one of those whenever he wants. To someone like him, it would be truly special to own something unique, something no one else could ever have...such as top secret Presidential documents. This would be a souvenir of his Presidency unlike any other! As such, the mere owning of these documents would be what he wanted. Endangering national security by revealing these documents was just a side effect. He wanted them, he took them, and they were HIS....as far as he was concerned. Yes, this was a crime and unbelievably stupid; but I'm suggesting this as a possible answer to the question of "why?"

    • @LadyAstarionAncunin
      @LadyAstarionAncunin Рік тому

      Extortion and blackmail. He tried to spur a coup. He wouldn’t be against trying to hold government secrets hostage in order to demand to be put in power (i.e., made dictator for life).

    • @steveschmaling8217
      @steveschmaling8217 Рік тому

      His desire to keep them can most likely be explained this way. They're official federal government documents with the erection causing words "President Trump" all over them. This is a guy who would proudly hang his arrest warrant in a gold frame just because it's about him.

  • @buckchesterfield8886
    @buckchesterfield8886 Рік тому

    Great video Steve!

  • @noctoskanan5716
    @noctoskanan5716 6 місяців тому

    Keep doing good

  • @jenniferstone2975
    @jenniferstone2975 Рік тому

    Bravo! That was magnificent!

  • @theemmjay5130
    @theemmjay5130 12 днів тому

    He's just following in the footsteps of Louis XIV. "L'etat, C'est moi!"

  • @stevengeorges9046
    @stevengeorges9046 Рік тому +1

    Trump's philosophy, why waste a truth when there's a perfectly good lie to tell.

  • @SSgtBaloo
    @SSgtBaloo Рік тому

    *Applause*

  • @wurdnurd1
    @wurdnurd1 Рік тому

    Solid Trump impression!

  • @frankandstein8618
    @frankandstein8618 Рік тому +14

    Well said, Steve.

  • @Taliseian
    @Taliseian Рік тому +1

    Could not have said it better myself

  • @nicholassmile5800
    @nicholassmile5800 Рік тому

    Great break down.

  • @paulfosten2094
    @paulfosten2094 Рік тому +1

    👏👏👏👏 no notes, A+

  • @craigvdodge
    @craigvdodge Рік тому +3

    What’s astounding is how much this all is like a really shitty Air Bud reboot: “There’s nothing in the law that says someone indicted on federal charges facing years in prison *can’t* run for president!”. Like, remember when adding an e to potato or having a weird yell when giving a speech was a deal breaker?

  • @alanlittlemoon8194
    @alanlittlemoon8194 Рік тому

    Yep.

  • @Breacca
    @Breacca Рік тому +1

    Came for the star trek stuff. Stayed for the political opinion...

  • @gagegolish9306
    @gagegolish9306 Рік тому +6

    "I did everything right and they ruined my life for no reason!" - Emperor Kuzco / Donald Trump

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 Рік тому

      Holy shit, that is literally exactly what Trump is.... Kuzco. Given everything he's ever had, casually ruining others' lives with a smile on his face, and all butthurt the moment anything bad happens to him.

    • @marsar1775
      @marsar1775 Рік тому +2

      excepy when confronted with the magnitude of his failures as a human being kuzco eventually manned up and worked to make things better. Trump still refuses
      id rather we have kuzco

    • @sharimeline3077
      @sharimeline3077 Рік тому +1

      @@marsar1775 trump's problem is that no one has ever thrown him off his groove.

  • @breengreg
    @breengreg Рік тому

    Why did Trump want these documents. It’s not like he was going to read them - Dara O Briain.

  • @KingLouisII
    @KingLouisII Рік тому

    7:47 I have heard that clip on several videos and podcasts. I was never looking at the screen, and until now assumed it was one of those cartoonish impressions used as a sound clip used for comedic effect. It blows my mind that it was a real clip/quote from Donald Trump. 😅😂🤣 Come on MAGAts! This is your strongman?! 😂

  • @olivermaddox555
    @olivermaddox555 Рік тому +37

    Being a criminal is a plus for Republicans. They want someone who breaks our laws.

    • @paulm.8660
      @paulm.8660 Рік тому

      Insert obligatory Frank Wilhoit quote here

    • @AaronLitz
      @AaronLitz Рік тому

      They honestly believe his lying and cheating makes him tough and smart! So much for their delusional claims of having some kind of moral authority; Trump has seriously thrown a massive spotlight on all of the hypocrisy of the Republican Party and every single Evangelical Christian who worships him.

    • @aliensarerealttsa6198
      @aliensarerealttsa6198 Рік тому

      They support psychopaths that accurately respresent them. They want to be lied to because their safe space is an alternative reality. They hate truth and God/love.
      Trump could do worse but the confederates/republicans/communists would just respect him more.

  • @illiath4438
    @illiath4438 Рік тому

    I am... amused to realize that my knowledge that someone can be president if they commit such a crime comes from my citizenship exam studies... I'm sadge.

  • @harrybehemoth2751
    @harrybehemoth2751 Рік тому +1

    37? In a row?

  • @jrbaskind
    @jrbaskind Рік тому +1

    What you said

  • @TheoRae8289
    @TheoRae8289 Рік тому

    I can't believe he actually sounded that explicitly whiny in that clip. And people support him??

  • @255ad
    @255ad Рік тому

    parts of this feel an expanded version of your answer to my last Q&A question

  • @benjackson11111
    @benjackson11111 Рік тому

    thank you! why people cant grasp this is beyond me (irrelevance of classification)

  • @darryl8079
    @darryl8079 Рік тому +3

    If I could like this 1700 more times, I would. Thank you for posting this!

  • @jamesbartholomew8584
    @jamesbartholomew8584 Рік тому +6

    "Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line."
    Just wonderfully amazing.

  • @patrickdodds7162
    @patrickdodds7162 Рік тому +7

    "37!!!?? Try not to steal any classified documents while you're out in that parking lot!" -- Dante Hicks to Donald Trump

  • @disky01
    @disky01 Рік тому

    Go off, king.

  • @Bonepac
    @Bonepac Рік тому +1

    All hail Lord Damnnuts. The one and only true king🥴🤢🤮

  • @mkang8782
    @mkang8782 Рік тому +2

    Tell us how you really feel, Steve. 😎🤫🧐

  • @killallrobots2001
    @killallrobots2001 Рік тому +1

    If there were a Pokémon named Whitemaleprivilege, Trump would be the final evolution.

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson Рік тому

      😂😂😂

    • @CaptainPikeachu
      @CaptainPikeachu Рік тому

      There’s already a Pokémon that was basically modeled after Donald Trump in appearance, unfortunately. I feel bad for that Pokémon.

    • @killallrobots2001
      @killallrobots2001 Рік тому

      @@CaptainPikeachu WOW!!!