Trae, America elected MAGA. The system worked. You need to just let Trump be Trump. He only had a plan to be in charge. KOAS, OR CHAOS, is in the hands of an 80-year-old. Vance is going to be President. I retired at 63 in 2012, and I live in Mexico. There is nothing Trump can do to change my life at 75. CAN THERE BE A MAGA WITHOUT TRUMP?
Now, I never gave much on the "trump is a russian agent" stuff. That was a largely trumped up ugly smear from the very start. Was nothing there there. . And in office he turned out to be considerable more bellicose towards russia than either Obama or Biden where. When you actually take a few hours and go through the facts established and moves made by his admin? Nah. Not what a russian agent would allow. _(not saying he had much to do with the planning, mind. But he signed a lot of orders that cannot have been welcome in moscow at all.)_ But the US instability and self-centeredness encouraged testing the current limits of hegemonic power, I have no doubt. A NATO-critical administration in washington? That is very much focused on internal power struggles? And largely doesnt seem to understand global rule frameworks, like tarriffs or treaty systems. Putting ideological amateurs in critical chairs? Yeah, everybody who doesnt like a western hegemony under the US will see room to make moves.
I've thought since the first term that Putin's got to be flopping back and forth between "Trump is so stupid, I can't believe this worked so well" and "Trump is so stupid, how is he screwing this up so badly". Like, he's done the impossible and gotten a pawn to be US President, but the pawn is too incompetent to do as much as he should be able to do.
Leave a room full of preschoolers alone in a room all day with a sack of sugar, some food coloring and tubs of whipped cream and see what kind of a mess they leave. This is what we can expect of this administration.
As a victim of sexual assault and violence, I think it's absolutely abhorrent that they would even thinking of nominating a sexual predator to be attorney general!
I had a conversation with someone last week about the effects of tariffs. I tried explaining it using the manufacturer example with passing on the cost but it didn't click. When I switched to the Walmart and dollar store store example it started to sink in. All I said was "You know those cheap Made in China things you buy at Walmart and the dollar store, they're going to double in price, and groceries will go up even more when cheap immigrant workers aren't here anymore."
I literally had to explain to someone how a free market economy works and how the president doesn't set the price of goods that consumers buy. Then I had to explain that they literally had information at their finger tips and could easily find this out for themselves instead of listening to prporgana media.
I have been rather depressed lately. Letting criminal narcissists run the country is not going to go well. I do want to take a second to thank you for being the voice of reason during these times, you give me a glimmer of hope.
I know just how you feel. I feel like I went to sleep and been in this nightmare ever since. Why people would think that Trump is going to MAGA. Is beyond stupid. He only wanted a get out of jail card. Power and revenge. He will be getting them all. We the American people are going to suffer at the expense of the rich and powerful people who are going to be running the country.
True - but the Germans were EFFICIENT. The Rethugs are not. As Trae says, look at the Rethug-controlled House over the past two years - the least productive House in US history. The in-fighting grinds all progress to a halt most of the time. They can't even manage to pass a budget.
Not at all surprised Dimwitted Donnie picked a fellow groomer for AG. Fortunately, republicans on the Hill hate Fivehead almost as much as they hate Fled Cruz.
Love from the UK where we have yet to fully admit that we screwed ourselves with brexit. Sorry that America has done the same with the election. Keep posting and I will keep watching. Hope we both live long enough to see our countries recover, or a least realise how badly they fked up.
Yup. Apparently around 15 million people who voted for Biden decided to stay home and not vote for Kamala in one of the most hotly contested elections ever. Hmmm. It's actually very strange, isn't it?! Very strange, indeed.
Depending on their stupidity and incompetence to save us is the pitiful hope we have left. Resistance is not futile; but this will be a long and bumpy road.
@@Soapandwater6 The department of Interior Bitching. Their job will be to meet the press and act like Karens whenever a reporter asks an intelligent question.
Im also in "fuck it" mode about ½ of the day. When I wake up I have about 30 seconds of bliss before I realize everything is a nightmare, again. Im so over reality right now.
Same. I’m becoming enamored of sleep because I don’t have to think about it for a little bit. Then I realized I’ve been dreaming about DT and the DoD, and lately RFKJ handling our affairs. That Musk is something like an illegal alien and has infiltrated our elections sounds just like a bad dream. But it’s not
How stupid are these people. I have friends and family members who love him. They are all very happy and rubbing it in. So sad and I know how it’s going to windup. We seen the first movie in 2016. Now we are in for the sequel. This one is going to be a horror movie. And we are all in it. God bless us.
@@HunHare His "base" is going to be so shocked when THEY have to pay higher prices for everything because of his tariffs, too, not just the Democrats. The next four years terrify me.
Their incompetence would give me hope were it not for the highly organized 'Project 2025' folks with their ready-to-sign executive orders and pre-vetted replacement personnel ready to report for work.
Sure. I still have hope that they'll get in their own way. Just because I have an HVAC manual doesn't mean I'm ready to go out and fix air conditioners.
On the "bright" side, most of their replacement personnel will also be wildly incompetent. That's the problem with extremists and their purity tests. They get the people who follow orders and kiss ass, not people who can think and solve problems. It happened with Hitler, Franco, Stalin and Mao. They all fired (or exiled or murdered) the bureaucrats and administrators who made things work and put loyal revolutionary peasants who were barely literate in their place. RFK jr and Oz are Trump's Trofim Lysenko.
@@bettycarey2446He's playing the old "listen to the tales of wise old man" game and he'll die or go completely senile soon. Be nice to the old guy so he gives you everything basically.
Sadly, untrue - millions believe they are winning and effing over the coastal elites or some such nonsense - America's survival is not guaranteed. God help us....
Actually, it’s much more than a “F you”… It’s a distraction. DJT has (supposedly) been elected, but he hasn’t made it to the resolute desk just yet. Scandals concerning his nominees for his cabinet will keep you focused on them, leaving him unencumbered in his pursuit of whatever’s tickling his mushroom at the moment…
It's a bit more sinister imo. Deliberately picking incompetent and unqualified sycophants because they are just the public puppets to distract us while Heritage Fdn and DJT's other agenda writers are making all the actual decisions behind the curtain.
"6 months" That's about how long it took my bosses to clue in how bad their decision were too -- though they too were warned Cassandras. #BridgeOverTheRiverKwai
Do you honestly think they'll accept the blame and admit their complicity? No, they'll do the SAME thing they did the first time Trump was breaking America. "This is HER fault for not being a more electable candidate."
Like covid, the casualties on the republi side will be higher than on the dem side ... if it doesn't change their mind, it'll at least reduce the voter base
All because of the small boats, you still have small boats coming in and have voted themselves into poverty... Talking about cutting off your own nose to spite your face, well, America is not far behind ..
What terrifies me is that my Republican friends say, 'Oh, the Senate won't really CONFIRM them." They truly aren't in the same reality as the rest of us. And don't speak to me about DoGE and this admin's view on economics.
They weren't in reality to begin with. Also is there such a thing as republican friends? Unless of course they are old school republicans who have a brain and a spine! 😂😂😂
They are lying to themselves. To a degree they know they have voted for a crazy person... Don't want to admit. And they are mentally locked in to keep voting red.
And on January 6th 2021 I thought surely, the senate will denounce an overt coup attempt to overthrow a free and fair election and then in Novmber 2024 I thought surely, America won't elect a rapist felon.
Sadly there have been days since the election, where I have actually hoped I’m one of the victims. My life has already been so hard and I’m so exhausted already I can’t take what we are headed towards.
Exponentially. That’s what Elon means when he says things will be really bad for a while. I just think he hasn’t really considered how hard it is to stop a boulder once it’s rolling downhill. In fact, it often turns into a landslide.
well, there was a new study that showed trump's number of covid murders, due to his hatred of masks and empowering vaccine skeptics in the qanon community; over 700,000. now, i'd been saying that trump was culpable for a bulk of the deaths, but my guess was around 250k to 400k. i don't disagree with that new study, though, especially since i tracked covid closely. the first year, 2020, countries like vietnam and cambodia, (population 100 million, each) had ZERO deaths. also, same for smaller countries, including Taiwan! , iceland, singapore!, and even to date, the per capita death count is magnitudes smaller than ours.
The inevitable end result of "No Child Left Behind" When they started that when I was a kid, I never really thought much of it, but...truly it was the solution to education the Republicans wanted. To stifle it while making it look like it was not being derailed.
I'm remembering that quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." It does indeed seem like a foolish consistency when we are more concerned with, say, the possibility of the government depriving the town arsonist of his "freedom" to use gasoline and matches than we are concerned with our city being burned down.
Turkish Proverb "When a clown moves into the palace, the palace becomes a circus". "Hail to the Chief" should be replaced with "Send in the Clowns". That's what I am going to hear every time I see video of him walking in to a room.
I was baffled at the make America healthy again idea from trump, because of all the backlash Michelle Obama got. You're the first person I've heard mention it.
She is a woman of color, and she was married to the man of color that they were forced to call president. That's it. That was their whole problem with it. Did you ever hear them complain about a tan suit in any other circumstance? How about complaining about what condiments people eat on their burger or hot dogs? They were looking for reasons to complain, and when they couldn't find enough legitimate reasons, they made them up.
Another really good source is Beau of the Fifth Column. The channel is currently hosted by his wife who goes by the handle of Belle, because Beau was worn to a frazzle between covering politics and social stuff and his volunteer work. Belle is a veteran and a nurse and sassy AF, and they have the receipts for everything they post.
Their lack of ability to organize in any meaningful fashion is really what gives me a little hope we might come out ok. I wonder what the history books are gonna say about America's great upheaval. Wish I was watching it instead of living it, but here we are.
Thanks for the laugh Trae. But unfortunately they have people that are actually capable creating their dystopian hellscape working in the background; the hundreds of people that wrote Project 2025.😢
Yes and no. They're fascists and fascists are fuckups. They can't imagine being wrong and so they can't fix their mistakes. The problem is that they can't stop hurting people either. It's their only way of hanging on to power.
And all your black men who was scold by a racist Ex Dem Pres Obama for not voting for a black women who has a white husband and 2 white children it is ok to vote for a white man. for we are not racist . Race is not a requirement for we are all just one race the human race that comes in many colors. Nothing more
Their incompetence won't save us. Breaking things doesn't need a lot of skill. Fixing things does. Remember the USPS? It's still not back in shape after DeJoy broke it during the 45 term. 😢
I'm all for letting them do what they want, and let America see their true colors .. of course, I moved overseas 10 years ago .. waiting for Trae to come visit ;)
There's a weather forecaster on YT who has a saying - "Don't be scared, be prepared" (or something similar). I keep reminding myself that I am human, therefore I am adaptable. And I'm not alone.
Sometimes I think about what all my ancestors went through to get to me... wars, diseases, famines, floods, fires, ice age and probably more. And I've been through NDEs, got struck by lightning twice, car wrecks, drowning and much more and that was before I finished HS. And I'm still here.
I'm a Left-wing Australian political historian. Been following many U.S. commentators and media outlets for some time. Gradually whittled my info input back to almost nothing in the lead-up to the election, because I couldn't cope with the over-confident, oblivious silo-shouting and overly even-handed analysis that somehow had the Democrats in with a chance. Now that the worst is both over AND yet to come, I'm still not taking in any of that stuff, it's not worth the trouble (especially having heard the news that Joe and Mika of Morning Joe have had a cordial olive-branch meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago). THIS channel is the only one I've stuck with the whole time. Both informative and somehow, against all logic, uplifting. And funny, which is gold in these times.
Have you tried Brian Tyler Cohen, Heather Cox Richardson, & Meidas Touch? I also like politics girl. If you want to laugh and also get news, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are also good
This is exactly what I was thinking. Put a room full of narcissists and they will all think they are the most important one in the room. Add to that the outside pressure of protests and law suits and we are going to have a good time.
He was in the photo of "The Goon Squad" on cheeto's plane. You couldn't see him 'cause he was under the table doing what he does best. You DID see the grin on cheeto's face, right?
Man, I’ve been watching but not commenting for a while and I really appreciate what you’re doing- but you ain’t never clarified the issues and just nailed it as good as you done tonight! Don’t you go changin, now!
One of the things that's getting me through this is watching the Leopards Eating My Face UA-cam videos where T voters are crying because family/ friends are cutting them out of their lives.
I have family I never thought would have voted for him confessing they did. I'm like "you do realize that 1/2 of these kids are anchor babies, right?!?" 🙄🤦🏻♀️🙄
Are you kidding? Giving Diddy a pardon? He’s the wrong color baby, he’s going down. Oh, saw you in the Atlanta Airport weeks ago early in the morning, but didn’t say hello because I was exhausted and you looked exhausted, lol. Really LOVE your channel!
Mehmet Oz has just been nominated for centers for Medicare and Medicaid services per Minnesota Star Tribune 32 minutes ago. Through the looking glass!!😜😜😜
He’s trying to wear out our crazy-meter before the inauguration. Hear you on the folks who freaked out about Michelle O, I ditched a friend whose racism was brought out by that.
So basically Greed and stupidity? Yeah, they might be it is a heck of a way to get by. Greed and stupidity is also how we got here. Any chance of USA changing tactic in four years time?
I hope big business will help us if their bottom lines are being hurt by MAGA policies, can we hope that there are enough GOPs who wont stand for this circus and block some of this crap, or hope that the MAGAs will implode. Are these nominations all publicity stunts???
Just read of orange face’s choice for Education Secretary and wondering - is it a pre-requisite to be involved in sexual abuse allegations - either as a perpetrator or by being in a position of power and ignoring abuse - if you’re nominated by him? Maybe THAT’S the low bar he’s aiming for this time and if so, he’s on track! As an atheist and Australian, I am a little perplexed at how “American Christians”, of the Republican variety, easily adjust their “Christian values” to accommodate such 💩.
Surviving is good! We will survive, and we will fight back, and eventually we will thrive. Why? Because love and kindness and truth and justice matter. So the more that we embody the values that we hold, the less power the low-vibrational trump admin will have over us. At least, I think that way.
Hey Trae, Namaste! So if our newly anointed “Emperor Orange Julius” throws Musk Vader off the plane, and it’s an “official act,” it’s like A-OK and TKO, right? “No harm, no foul,” right? At least to the blind Justices asleep on the habeas corpus… A “waking nightmare” indeed… Thanks Trae! I feel lost and orphaned as it is, I truly can’t imagine how I’d feel without you and the rest of the “fellow travelers”… - XOXOXO! Glenn Jones (“Planet Dearth”)
I despise Monsanto, but I don't believe for one second that RFK will make any moves against them. For one thing, you can't convince me that RFK is a principled individual. And the dude's probably also holding a lot of stock in the company, let's be honest. For another thing, if the corporations are really as in control of this country as many (including myself) believe, they'll never tolerate any attempts to strip them of power.
You can hope they will move into that immovable force...but they have the Heritage Foundation with them now. Those evil people have intelligent people thinking for them
Honestly, Musk getting ejected from Air Force One at cruising altitude (without a parachute) would be one thing Trump could do that I would enthusiastically applaud.
And DT could claim it was within the scope of his "official duties as president" and supreme court will let him get away with it. Musk's 163 children can split up his fortune.
I doubt he’ll do that, there’s some folks a hell of a lot smarter than me who are looking into how the Muskrat helped give Trump the election! Please look up “Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024” by Stephen Spoonamore and read it!!😭
Making fun of a billionaire tells me your mental state and you are in the sand box with so many more throwing sand blaming others for your own failures due to lack of effort.
@@Delamom1 They'll be out of a job if MAGA has their way. When they start making contraception illegal, they won't stop at condoms and pills. Any excuse to give the 1% their slave caste...
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Please watch the Thom Hartmann interview - Data Scientist's Shocking Call for Election Recount...
Iowa +3
Trae has ABSOLUTELY NO CREDIBILITY whatsoever
Trae, America elected MAGA. The system worked. You need to just let Trump be Trump. He only had a plan to be in charge. KOAS, OR CHAOS, is in the hands of an 80-year-old. Vance is going to be President. I retired at 63 in 2012, and I live in Mexico. There is nothing Trump can do to change my life at 75. CAN THERE BE A MAGA WITHOUT TRUMP?
thanks Trae. Big fan.
Why aren't you on blue sky yet?
"The bar was in hell and they limboed right under that"
🤣🤣🤣
So true
Isn't it just so so true.
They're burnt.
@JaneESeymour I went to your UA-cam and subscribed. You are cool.
Joke circulating Europe....What borders on stupidity?...Canada and Mexico!
🤣🤣🤣 Truth!!!!
Accurate 😂😂
%100
Canadian here: paying attention to canadian politics, your joke fails. The artic ocean borders on stupidity, at least to the north.
I shouldn't laugh this hard, but I must agree with you!
Someone said to me that trump didn't appoint a cabinet, he appointed a junk drawer
For the WIN!!! I can't wait until it gets cleaned out. (which reminds me that I have an actual junk drawer that needs attention)
Ooo, that's nice! I might have to borrow that, if that's okay?
@@graffitiwomen it's not mine either! I wish I was that clever. Feel free
I plan to borrow this one too. It’s priceless! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I agree TRUMP SUCKS big time anything else??? Thank you much.
Apparently rock bottom has a basement 😂
Just wait we have 4 years to find out exactly how deep that basement actually goes
@markwilliams8142 it probably has an elevator
@@7screamingdizzbusters At least a revolving door. (For Life After Politics -- if you don't go to jail)
@@7screamingdizzbustersa golden escalator
We’re about to witness a masterclass in Corruption.
Well, they couldn't teach it, since so many of them are busted and arrested. It appears corruptive clumsiness is OK with voters.
Peak irony is nominating TWO co-leaders in charge of "government efficiency."
👍👍🤣🤣
and creating an agency that does the same work as an existing one.........
@@gdwnet Yep GAO.
Oh it gets better, Mehmet Oz got nominated as the person in charge of Medicare 😳😳
@@sawtooth808 They really are picking the worst........
I keep coming back to the idea that Putin can’t believe how well his plans have turned out
Yup. He’s already seen all our top secret documents.
Assuming he actually had anything to do with this (not saying he didn't, just that we don't know at this time) , he must be _amazed_ at his ROI.
@seanheath4492 his investment was in 2016 and it has been paying off ever since.
Now, I never gave much on the "trump is a russian agent" stuff.
That was a largely trumped up ugly smear from the very start. Was nothing there there.
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And in office he turned out to be considerable more bellicose towards russia than either Obama or Biden where. When you actually take a few hours and go through the facts established and moves made by his admin? Nah. Not what a russian agent would allow. _(not saying he had much to do with the planning, mind. But he signed a lot of orders that cannot have been welcome in moscow at all.)_
But the US instability and self-centeredness encouraged testing the current limits of hegemonic power, I have no doubt.
A NATO-critical administration in washington? That is very much focused on internal power struggles?
And largely doesnt seem to understand global rule frameworks, like tarriffs or treaty systems.
Putting ideological amateurs in critical chairs?
Yeah, everybody who doesnt like a western hegemony under the US will see room to make moves.
I've thought since the first term that Putin's got to be flopping back and forth between "Trump is so stupid, I can't believe this worked so well" and "Trump is so stupid, how is he screwing this up so badly".
Like, he's done the impossible and gotten a pawn to be US President, but the pawn is too incompetent to do as much as he should be able to do.
Here comes cruelty, corruption, and chaos brought to you by clowns.
Leave a room full of preschoolers alone in a room all day with a sack of sugar, some food coloring and tubs of whipped cream and see what kind of a mess they leave. This is what we can expect of this administration.
Only incompetence can save us now.
Also conflicting interests.
@@killertom8261 i mean there's a LOT of incompetent people that will be in the administration, so fingers crossed!!
@@ClaudeGhendrih-w4o
So... incompetence, infighting and Immorality are our only hopes?
We.
Are.
So.
_Very._
*_SCREWED!_*
IDIOCRACY!!!
The trouble is, not all of them are incompetent. Trump's Little Johnson and Moscow Mitch are anything but incompetent.
As a victim of sexual assault and violence, I think it's absolutely abhorrent that they would even thinking of nominating a sexual predator to be attorney general!
But birds of a feather stick together, the president elect is one too - abhorrent 😩😩😩
Sorry to hear that. Yes, even worse having a president who is one is bad enough much less both.
Yes . The ducks shoot at the guns now. Epstein if alive would be the next vice president. Or dept. of education minister.
Oh, that's just the beginning. Buckle up.
Or as a President of the United States. 🧿
I had a conversation with someone last week about the effects of tariffs. I tried explaining it using the manufacturer example with passing on the cost but it didn't click. When I switched to the Walmart and dollar store store example it started to sink in. All I said was "You know those cheap Made in China things you buy at Walmart and the dollar store, they're going to double in price, and groceries will go up even more when cheap immigrant workers aren't here anymore."
Your doing better than I've been able to I haven't reached common ground with one uneducated extremest mega
Are the doctors and nurses on the deportation list?
Did it sink in? No
@@bettyjones113 Don't give them any ideas!
I literally had to explain to someone how a free market economy works and how the president doesn't set the price of goods that consumers buy. Then I had to explain that they literally had information at their finger tips and could easily find this out for themselves instead of listening to prporgana media.
I have been rather depressed lately. Letting criminal narcissists run the country is not going to go well. I do want to take a second to thank you for being the voice of reason during these times, you give me a glimmer of hope.
I know just how you feel. I feel like I went to sleep and been in this nightmare ever since. Why people would think that Trump is going to MAGA. Is beyond stupid. He only wanted a get out of jail card. Power and revenge. He will be getting them all. We the American people are going to suffer at the expense of the rich and powerful people who are going to be running the country.
Just a point from history, German industrialist thought they could use and control Hitler.
True - but the Germans were EFFICIENT. The Rethugs are not. As Trae says, look at the Rethug-controlled House over the past two years - the least productive House in US history. The in-fighting grinds all progress to a halt most of the time. They can't even manage to pass a budget.
Well duh . . . the GOP should have learned that first time around. Slow . . . .
Americans don’t know history. 98% of them could not locate Poland on a globe.
oh here we go again with the Nazi references, please stop.
@@Lilrock2033 Stop supporting and electing people who do and say nazi sh*t and people will stop pointing out the nazi sh*t being said and done
Gaetz was told he was getting Karma. He asked' "Is she under 17?"
He does have Standard's. Kind of i guess 😂😂
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😳😳😳
"Karma's a bitch. I should've known better. If she was of age, I woulda never effed around"
- Matt Gaetz, 2024
Not at all surprised Dimwitted Donnie picked a fellow groomer for AG. Fortunately, republicans on the Hill hate Fivehead almost as much as they hate Fled Cruz.
"Whats next, they're going to put Alex Jones and Rosanne in charge of the department of Staying calm and Making sense?" 🤣
Probably, and I too am waiting for the Diddy pardon
Yes.
Don’t tempt them
they would hire alex jones, my stomach is churning at how within character that is.
There's an Indy folk Alex Jones song. It really helps calm my AJ rage.
Love from the UK where we have yet to fully admit that we screwed ourselves with brexit. Sorry that America has done the same with the election. Keep posting and I will keep watching. Hope we both live long enough to see our countries recover, or a least realise how badly they fked up.
You left the EU ... not smart, but still way less suicidal than the USofA trying to do worse than Argentina ...
Thank you for your luvvins..!
Germany came back right ….it was a fucking mess but they came back strong
Thank you for the well wishes. Really hoping we didn't just jump off the Clif over here.
Love back to you. We're in a terrible mess, but we've been in them before. I hope the same.
I’m 100% in spite mode. They killed my empathy so I’m feeling vindictive and hateful af.
Ikr. I’m looking for a 2nd amendment hat and shirt to wear with my camouflage pants and boots. Don’t stomp on me on the but section of the pants
That's how I'm feeling. Fk the high road.
You are not alone, my friend.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one!
as well you should be
This is what happens when people don't vote. America deserves the government it elects.
Yup. Apparently around 15 million people who voted for Biden decided to stay home and not vote for Kamala in one of the most hotly contested elections ever. Hmmm. It's actually very strange, isn't it?! Very strange, indeed.
Depending on their stupidity and incompetence to save us is the pitiful hope we have left.
Resistance is not futile; but this will be a long and bumpy road.
Well Dr. OZ, was just appointed in charge of Medicare and Medicare. This just keeps getting worse.
Where is the Dumpster going to place Marjorie and Bimbobert? Their blind loyalty and incompetence should count for something.
WTF?!
Oh, F
At least he's a doctor. Really, it's not Hulk Hogan.
@@Soapandwater6 The department of Interior Bitching. Their job will be to meet the press and act like Karens whenever a reporter asks an intelligent question.
Im also in "fuck it" mode about ½ of the day. When I wake up I have about 30 seconds of bliss before I realize everything is a nightmare, again. Im so over reality right now.
You're describing my life.
Same. Every so often, at random times, the realization hits me again. It wasn't a dream.
PS5 escape reality for a bit
If we could just wake up and it'd not be true... (Rich men north of Richmond) ...they just got total control.
Same. I’m becoming enamored of sleep because I don’t have to think about it for a little bit. Then I realized I’ve been dreaming about DT and the DoD, and lately RFKJ handling our affairs. That Musk is something like an illegal alien and has infiltrated our elections sounds just like a bad dream. But it’s not
The average person who thinks Trump gives a crap about them has been greatly deceived.
again. DUH
How stupid are these people. I have friends and family members who love him. They are all very happy and rubbing it in. So sad and I know how it’s going to windup. We seen the first movie in 2016. Now we are in for the sequel. This one is going to be a horror movie. And we are all in it. God bless us.
Except they haven't gotten the joke yet. Probably never will.
@@HunHare His "base" is going to be so shocked when THEY have to pay higher prices for everything because of his tariffs, too, not just the Democrats. The next four years terrify me.
Cabinet?....more like a junk drawer! Goodlord!...
It's not something that functional. More like a loose pile of junk and it's infested with roaches.
Lawdhavmercy!
It's a great junk drawer! We're excited about this team!
That about Walmart is on 🎯 The idiots who don't understand how a TAX works is going to find out soon enough.
2025 cabinet member resume must include the following, Pervert, Pedophile, Psychopath ...if you have all those you get the job!
The three P’s!
You forgot Insane and Cruel.
Narcissistic with a soupçon of sadism and a splash of stupid.
@@moonbladem I think Psychopath covers insane and cruel
@maryschnebeger3998
Narcissism with a soupçon of sadism, and a heavy peppering of stupidity.
Their incompetence would give me hope were it not for the highly organized 'Project 2025' folks with their ready-to-sign executive orders and pre-vetted replacement personnel ready to report for work.
Yup while we are watching the puppet show, they are putting all their pieces in place
THEY are serious AF! 😢
Heritage Foundation.
Yeah, they are already taking Cabinet positions.
Sure. I still have hope that they'll get in their own way. Just because I have an HVAC manual doesn't mean I'm ready to go out and fix air conditioners.
On the "bright" side, most of their replacement personnel will also be wildly incompetent. That's the problem with extremists and their purity tests. They get the people who follow orders and kiss ass, not people who can think and solve problems. It happened with Hitler, Franco, Stalin and Mao. They all fired (or exiled or murdered) the bureaucrats and administrators who made things work and put loyal revolutionary peasants who were barely literate in their place. RFK jr and Oz are Trump's Trofim Lysenko.
Elon Musk has never had a boss in his life. Now, he’s going to have a boss. It’s not going to go well.
That definitely won't last long.
He dangerous
All these villains joining forces...
Frightening
Dementia Don and his advisors are already realizing they have the human version of bed bugs and it's going to be hard to eradicate.
@@bettycarey2446He's playing the old "listen to the tales of wise old man" game and he'll die or go completely senile soon. Be nice to the old guy so he gives you everything basically.
Wait wait. Elon thinks he is the boss. Not enough room for two cowboys in this saddle
His picks are nothing but an F you to the American people, and we all know it.
Sadly, untrue - millions believe they are winning and effing over the coastal elites or some such nonsense - America's survival is not guaranteed. God help us....
And somehow the majority of Americans thought he was the better choice. I have lost all hope and faith in the American people!!
Actually, it’s much more than a “F you”… It’s a distraction. DJT has (supposedly) been elected, but he hasn’t made it to the resolute desk just yet. Scandals concerning his nominees for his cabinet will keep you focused on them, leaving him unencumbered in his pursuit of whatever’s tickling his mushroom at the moment…
It's a bit more sinister imo. Deliberately picking incompetent and unqualified sycophants because they are just the public puppets to distract us while Heritage Fdn and DJT's other agenda writers are making all the actual decisions behind the curtain.
Laughing that is what Biden/Harris did and just look how they have F us. And you will help pay. lol
What's worse, is if it follows last time, he'll have new people every 6 months and each will be worse than the last.
Can they get worse?
@@MichelleHensley-q9y Historically, when they hit the bottom of the barrel, they start digging!
@@zelousfoxtrot3390 yeah, that was a bit of sarcasm. Unfortunately you are correct.
The talent pool is now a puddle.
40 of his 44 former cabinet members refused to endorse him. Obviously Trump won't pick any of them.
"6 months"
That's about how long it took my bosses to clue in how bad their decision were too -- though they too were warned Cassandras.
#BridgeOverTheRiverKwai
we have just Brexited ourselves and like the UK, we will be in for a rapid slide into poverty and deprivation, COMPLETELY self-inflicted
Do you honestly think they'll accept the blame and admit their complicity? No, they'll do the SAME thing they did the first time Trump was breaking America. "This is HER fault for not being a more electable candidate."
The biggest part of the con is convincing everyone it's self inflicted.
Like covid, the casualties on the republi side will be higher than on the dem side ... if it doesn't change their mind, it'll at least reduce the voter base
All because of the small boats, you still have small boats coming in and have voted themselves into poverty... Talking about cutting off your own nose to spite your face, well, America is not far behind ..
The only possibly good thing that may happen is that some awesome music should be coming from the US & UK as a result.
What terrifies me is that my Republican friends say, 'Oh, the Senate won't really CONFIRM them." They truly aren't in the same reality as the rest of us. And don't speak to me about DoGE and this admin's view on economics.
They weren't in reality to begin with. Also is there such a thing as republican friends? Unless of course they are old school republicans who have a brain and a spine! 😂😂😂
Even though if you're not religious only a few will listen. A lot will fall.
They are lying to themselves. To a degree they know they have voted for a crazy person... Don't want to admit. And they are mentally locked in to keep voting red.
And on January 6th 2021 I thought surely, the senate will denounce an overt coup attempt to overthrow a free and fair election and then in Novmber 2024 I thought surely, America won't elect a rapist felon.
If they could perceive reality we all wouldn’t be in this mess
I love that you dropped this right as the news of Dr. Oz controlling Medicare and shit came out.
Are you fucking kidding!?
Please tell me you're joking.
@@beeonthyme5760 nope
@@jessicak2811 I wish I were
Sorry for doubting you, I just Googled it. Sounded to weird to be true, but then again it's Trump.
Its like a perverse cabinet of curiosities.
New York liberal conservative here, I love You man....God Bless
What is a "liberal conservative"? Republican Lite?
@@justpassingthrough...2492Used to be Democratic middle
I'm scared that the body count for this Trump term will be catastrophically worse than Covid.
Sadly there have been days since the election, where I have actually hoped I’m one of the victims. My life has already been so hard and I’m so exhausted already I can’t take what we are headed towards.
Exponentially.
That’s what Elon means when he says things will be really bad for a while.
I just think he hasn’t really considered how hard it is to stop a boulder once it’s rolling downhill. In fact, it often turns into a landslide.
well, there was a new study that showed trump's number of covid murders, due to his hatred of masks and empowering vaccine skeptics in the qanon community; over 700,000. now, i'd been saying that trump was culpable for a bulk of the deaths, but my guess was around 250k to 400k. i don't disagree with that new study, though, especially since i tracked covid closely. the first year, 2020, countries like vietnam and cambodia, (population 100 million, each) had ZERO deaths. also, same for smaller countries, including Taiwan! , iceland, singapore!, and even to date, the per capita death count is magnitudes smaller than ours.
He just made Dr Oz the head of Medicare and Medicaid, so yeah, you’re probably right.
@@taniac1860that's not a joke, is it?
There’s just no end to the insanity and dysfunction.
Oh yes there is. Wait for it. It's gonna be spectacular.
When your attempting to steal the wealth of a nation dry you need distractions while doing it .
The inevitable end result of "No Child Left Behind" When they started that when I was a kid, I never really thought much of it, but...truly it was the solution to education the Republicans wanted. To stifle it while making it look like it was not being derailed.
@@DH-uu5ps Yeah. So was Hiroshima.
I'm remembering that quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." It does indeed seem like a foolish consistency when we are more concerned with, say, the possibility of the government depriving the town arsonist of his "freedom" to use gasoline and matches than we are concerned with our city being burned down.
Turkish Proverb "When a clown moves into the palace, the palace becomes a circus". "Hail to the Chief" should be replaced with "Send in the Clowns". That's what I am going to hear every time I see video of him walking in to a room.
Don't bother; they're here.
CUE ENTRY OF THE GLADIATORS (stereotypical clown music)
The Clown have been in for 4 yrs now and have now been sent packing
@@Dave1Claudius After two impeachments... Maybe we can make it three after the midterms?
@@Dave1Claudius sarcastic 🤣🤣🤣
Those are some pretty good straws you're grasping at. I'll take 'em!
I was baffled at the make America healthy again idea from trump, because of all the backlash Michelle Obama got. You're the first person I've heard mention it.
But Michelle isn't a cult leader.
Michelle advocated healthy food and exercise.
Our nation in general has a very, very short memory. Except for the Civil War, I guess.
She is a woman of color, and she was married to the man of color that they were forced to call president. That's it. That was their whole problem with it. Did you ever hear them complain about a tan suit in any other circumstance? How about complaining about what condiments people eat on their burger or hot dogs? They were looking for reasons to complain, and when they couldn't find enough legitimate reasons, they made them up.
Remember,Trump’s idea of healthy is backasswards. Deep fried Snickers bars for everyone!
Never underestimate the power of nincompoops to create nincompoopery.
Their gift, to replace our democracy, would be their Idiocracy.
Nincom-potpourri 🤭😂
This is the only way for a southern democrat to get the news. Thanks Trae.
Agreed - dem in Alabama ❤
Well that's really sad! We need to stick together!
Yep. Blue dot in AL.
Another really good source is Beau of the Fifth Column. The channel is currently hosted by his wife who goes by the handle of Belle, because Beau was worn to a frazzle between covering politics and social stuff and his volunteer work. Belle is a veteran and a nurse and sassy AF, and they have the receipts for everything they post.
Trey thank God for you…I’ve been relying on you for a while
Their lack of ability to organize in any meaningful fashion is really what gives me a little hope we might come out ok.
I wonder what the history books are gonna say about America's great upheaval. Wish I was watching it instead of living it, but here we are.
Thanks for the laugh Trae. But unfortunately they have people that are actually capable creating their dystopian hellscape working in the background; the hundreds of people that wrote Project 2025.😢
Yep. I read part of Project 2025. I wonder how many of the 65,000 TSA workers heading for mass layoffs voted for Trump?
Exactly so.
Yes and no. They're fascists and fascists are fuckups. They can't imagine being wrong and so they can't fix their mistakes. The problem is that they can't stop hurting people either. It's their only way of hanging on to power.
Reminder he only brought the brain worm to public light decades ago to avoid paying for his kids in his divorce.
Yeah, but that doesn't explain everything that he's done since.
Their agenda: "Keep them in trauma". Starts to make sense exactly why certain people are chosen.
This has Steve Bannon's pustulous fingers all over it.
@@elainascott7496Totally agreed! Perfect description of Bannon....
"Keeping the rabble furious at each other distracts them from what they really should be mad about" fits in with that as well.
When you understand they want to guarantee a non-functional government, it makes tons of sense. 😼
@@elainascott7496 just his fingers????
To every educated and experienced Blk women who have been accused of being a DEI hire......we see the IRONY
We are the qualified Diverse Equitable Inclusive hires, w/o us all that’s left is mediocre whyt3 men
I’m a white women and, yes I see the irony.
And all your black men who was scold by a racist Ex Dem Pres Obama for not voting for a black women who has a white husband and 2 white children it is ok to vote for a white man.
for we are not racist . Race is not a requirement for we are all just one race the human race that comes in many colors. Nothing more
lol! “A brain-wormed carcass collector! “ You are such a delight in this shit-show of a reality. Thank you for making these videos. ❤️
He will appoint Hannibal lechter. The republican senate will approve him
Hannibal Lecter would make mincemeat out of Trump and Co🧐 literally and figuratively
Maybe he'll try to get Fredrick Douglass on his cabinet.
Hannibal Lechter for White House chef?
@Soapandwater6 very good!
Their incompetence won't save us. Breaking things doesn't need a lot of skill. Fixing things does. Remember the USPS? It's still not back in shape after DeJoy broke it during the 45 term. 😢
DeJoy is still in charge of the USPS
I'm all for letting them do what they want, and let America see their true colors .. of course, I moved overseas 10 years ago .. waiting for Trae to come visit ;)
I love your ramblings. They give me hope for the south, white men, and rural areas.
There's a weather forecaster on YT who has a saying - "Don't be scared, be prepared" (or something similar).
I keep reminding myself that I am human, therefore I am adaptable. And I'm not alone.
My dad has said something similar. ... Honestly, I am just glad that most of the boomers in my life are the good kind.
I'm not sure how to prepare for this but somehow that helps. Thanks.
Ryan Hall, Y'all!! Yup, that's sound advice in most situations!
Sometimes I think about what all my ancestors went through to get to me... wars, diseases, famines, floods, fires, ice age and probably more. And I've been through NDEs, got struck by lightning twice, car wrecks, drowning and much more and that was before I finished HS. And I'm still here.
I'm a Left-wing Australian political historian. Been following many U.S. commentators and media outlets for some time. Gradually whittled my info input back to almost nothing in the lead-up to the election, because I couldn't cope with the over-confident, oblivious silo-shouting and overly even-handed analysis that somehow had the Democrats in with a chance. Now that the worst is both over AND yet to come, I'm still not taking in any of that stuff, it's not worth the trouble (especially having heard the news that Joe and Mika of Morning Joe have had a cordial olive-branch meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago).
THIS channel is the only one I've stuck with the whole time. Both informative and somehow, against all logic, uplifting. And funny, which is gold in these times.
Exactly.
MediasTouch isn't "funny", but it's very informative.
No, Trae is just liberal propaganda. That’s right up your alley being from Australia. You people love your authoritarian government
Have you tried Brian Tyler Cohen, Heather Cox Richardson, & Meidas Touch? I also like politics girl. If you want to laugh and also get news, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are also good
@@jennyb5385 i second this!
They don't need people who know how to do those jobs if nobody plans to do any jobs.
It's actually puzzling why these people want a job that amounts to "Destroy the department that I'm in charge of," but here we are.
surprised that djt has not built a golf course on the capital lawn yet, that is all he is good at, destruction and building golf courses.
Here is a bucket fill it. woe is me
@@Dave1Claudius thinks he is immune. Dave is a sucker.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Put a room full of narcissists and they will all think they are the most important one in the room. Add to that the outside pressure of protests and law suits and we are going to have a good time.
After the first disaster, the fools would have learned by now.
I am so frightened by their insanity.
I petrified of what might become of our country in the next four years and what what might not be left of it.
As am I!
Same here
Our country will end up in piles of ashes and rubble.
And they'll blame the Democrats for everything.
Don’t feel fear from things you have no control over.
Trae Crowder: nailing it again but with fabulous 1-liners and magical riffs. Helping to keep us as sane as possible in an insane world#Trumpnightmare.
Trae is incredibly talented, well written and rehearsed, and deceptively clever at his job. It's a marvel to watch.
How long since we've had a public sighting of Vance? Wonder what's up in that department.
I also have been wondering about that.🤔
Maybe he got one of those Matt Gaetz facelifts. The Lara trump equivalent. It's gonna be creepy good.
News leaked today that he is vetting people to replace the FBI Director.
He's not happy about having to share the vice-dude spotlight with Elon and Vivek.
He was in the photo of "The Goon Squad" on cheeto's plane. You couldn't see him 'cause he was under the table doing what he does best. You DID see the grin on cheeto's face, right?
Thanks for being here on the interwebs Trae. You make it just a little easier to swallow the turd sandwich we’re all about to get fed on the daily.
Man, I’ve been watching but not commenting for a while and I really appreciate what you’re doing- but you ain’t never clarified the issues and just nailed it as good as you done tonight! Don’t you go changin, now!
"How much more stupid and bad could it be?" You know, Trumpublicans will see that question as a challenge, right?
Yep, they'll be like, "Hold my beer!"
@@moonbladem More like, "Hold my brains, I got this."
@@TampaDave Brain worms will be having a field day. 🧠🪱
exactly
@@TampaDave what brains???
One of the things that's getting me through this is watching the Leopards Eating My Face UA-cam videos where T voters are crying because family/ friends are cutting them out of their lives.
They voted for family separation, they just didn't think it would be *their* families.
I have family I never thought would have voted for him confessing they did.
I'm like "you do realize that 1/2 of these kids are anchor babies, right?!?"
🙄🤦🏻♀️🙄
Thanks. I'll check it out.
They're the BEST!!!
@@AthenaPrime🎯
'New' department...SCAMS - Staying Calm and Making Sense
Hmm, scams. Seems like that's all the departments now. 🤔
Are you kidding? Giving Diddy a pardon? He’s the wrong color baby, he’s going down. Oh, saw you in the Atlanta Airport weeks ago early in the morning, but didn’t say hello because I was exhausted and you looked exhausted, lol. Really LOVE your channel!
'The bar was in Hell but they managed to limbo right under that." Needed this laugh even though it's definitely how the next 4yrs are going to go.
the department of "Staying Calm And Making Sense" or S.C.A.M.S. 😆
Great minds think alike, "what I said".
You're the light in this dark hell we call America. Thanks for the chance to laugh. ❤
Mehmet Oz has just been nominated for centers for Medicare and Medicaid services per Minnesota Star Tribune 32 minutes ago. Through the looking glass!!😜😜😜
He has zero experience in government. He's a pretty good quack, though. Will fit right in.
He’s trying to wear out our crazy-meter before the inauguration.
Hear you on the folks who freaked out about Michelle O, I ditched a friend whose racism was brought out by that.
"Emphasize just how stupid this era of the American experiment is..."
Failing experiment
At least we have all the funny people on the left. Thank you for helping me hang on to my sanity Trae.
Please keep speaking out. It is so easy to give in to despair.
Please look up “Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024” by Stephen Spoonamore! There might be a path out of this hell!
keep calm and carry on. capitalism and incompetence will save us
Lol
So basically Greed and stupidity? Yeah, they might be it is a heck of a way to get by.
Greed and stupidity is also how we got here. Any chance of USA changing tactic in four years time?
Aaaagggggghhhhb
@@duncandownham4726
In four HUNDRED years maybe...
I hope big business will help us if their bottom lines are being hurt by MAGA policies, can we hope that there are enough GOPs who wont stand for this circus and block some of this crap, or hope that the MAGAs will implode. Are these nominations all publicity stunts???
I absolutely said this at work November 6th. Now it's done. See how that works out for u. s.
Just read of orange face’s choice for Education Secretary and wondering -
is it a pre-requisite to be involved in sexual abuse allegations - either as a perpetrator or by being in a position of power and ignoring abuse - if you’re nominated by him?
Maybe THAT’S the low bar he’s aiming for this time and if so, he’s on track!
As an atheist and Australian, I am a little perplexed at how “American Christians”, of the Republican variety, easily adjust their “Christian values” to accommodate such 💩.
He's stocking his cabinet with friends, loyalists, sycophants and useful idiots.
I just don't understand what is going on right now in OUR country??? 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😡
We live in a reality TV world. Who is next, Kim Kardashian for Dept of Labor? 👺
Perfect!
She probably would be good at it
Forget gov assistance for a house. Brazilian Butt Lifts will get THAT money!
Surviving is probably the best we can hope for.
Surviving is good! We will survive, and we will fight back, and eventually we will thrive. Why? Because love and kindness and truth and justice matter. So the more that we embody the values that we hold, the less power the low-vibrational trump admin will have over us. At least, I think that way.
I'm just waiting for someone to hand Trump a fiddle and a toga while the US figuratively burns like ancient Rome.
Zero Nero.
A lyre might fit better, both for the historical authenticity and the visual joke.
@@seanheath4492 I like your idea better.
Ahh, I'm seeing banjo instead!
It’ll be an Alexa playing YMCA
Hey Trae, Namaste!
So if our newly anointed “Emperor Orange Julius” throws Musk Vader off the plane, and it’s an “official act,” it’s like A-OK and TKO, right? “No harm, no foul,” right? At least to the blind Justices asleep on the habeas corpus…
A “waking nightmare” indeed…
Thanks Trae! I feel lost and orphaned as it is, I truly can’t imagine how I’d feel without you and the rest of the “fellow travelers”…
- XOXOXO!
Glenn Jones
(“Planet Dearth”)
The hoping that your opponent is incompetent isn’t a strong battle plan. But it maybe the best we’ve got
And a huge percentage of Wal-Mart's income is snap benefits which they also want to destroy!
That describes the majority of maga living in my small rural town. The hypocrisy is mind bending
Most of the workers there.
I've learned not to say, "It can't get any worse."
I'm doing the same, "As the shit hits the fan, the fan is an industrial size set on ultra high speed, this shit is going to get EVERYWHERE!"
Amen brother. I’m hoping that they are too stupid to accomplish their nefarious goals.
I am very much heartened in this situation by knowing full well the glacial pace of government bureaucracy!
The only pictures of Trump and Musk have been outdoors because there isn't a room big enough for both their egos.
Monsanto vs RFK? That should be fun
The same with Elon's Teslas vs. Donnie's "Drill, baby, drill." ?
😂 💯
🤣🤓🤣
I despise Monsanto, but I don't believe for one second that RFK will make any moves against them. For one thing, you can't convince me that RFK is a principled individual. And the dude's probably also holding a lot of stock in the company, let's be honest. For another thing, if the corporations are really as in control of this country as many (including myself) believe, they'll never tolerate any attempts to strip them of power.
Thank you for the laughs. They are needed in these dark days. Love you like chicken 😻💙🇺🇸😿
Prepare, don't despair ( we are "the enemy from within" )
You speak the truth and make me smile at the same time.Thank you Trae💙
You can hope they will move into that immovable force...but they have the Heritage Foundation with them now. Those evil people have intelligent people thinking for them
Honestly, Musk getting ejected from Air Force One at cruising altitude (without a parachute) would be one thing Trump could do that I would enthusiastically applaud.
And DT could claim it was within the scope of his "official duties as president" and supreme court will let him get away with it. Musk's 163 children can split up his fortune.
I doubt he’ll do that, there’s some folks a hell of a lot smarter than me who are looking into how the Muskrat helped give Trump the election! Please look up “Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024” by Stephen Spoonamore and read it!!😭
Making fun of a billionaire tells me your mental state and you are in the sand box with so many more throwing sand blaming others for your own failures due to
lack of effort.
@@Dave1Claudiusdefending a billionaire shows your class consciousness is lacking.
@@Dave1Claudius Exactly what does it tell you about our mental state? That we are not the crazy ones?
And people keep wondering why ‘kids these days’ aren’t having kids.
Did you see that planned parenthood had 1200% increase in vasectomy inquiry?! Not a typo...1200%...😂😂😂
Yes! I know someone who works in reproductive health & she says they're getting swamped with requests for vasectomies & tubal ligations.
@@Delamom1 They'll be out of a job if MAGA has their way. When they start making contraception illegal, they won't stop at condoms and pills. Any excuse to give the 1% their slave caste...
The Christian fascists, l mean nationalists, will probably ban those procedures soon.
or gleefully joining the military despite all the hopeful ads of a promising career or paid for education....smhid
I'm truly thinking about drinking my way through the next 4 years!!!
I’m actually sitting in my library, where I have two bottles of bourbon, two bottles of rum and two bottles of wine. Not nearly enough!!
I agree with you a zillion times over!
I heard the joke about Gaetz lowering the age of consent and pardoning Diddy and my brain went ‘Wait, actually?’ This is the DUMBEST timeline