Not a moral right, I agree. Unfortunately for us, the Fascists that got elected in '24 don't believe in democracy and their "morals" boil down to "Might makes Right" or "who's going to stop us?". That many were screaming this from the rooftops ahead of the election is irrelevant at this point (no wars candidate, eh?). Israel of late works from the same playbook for the same reason(s). Together **we** are the axis of evil.
What?!?! Are you sure? Does Trump know? 😂 Seriously, when our creditors stop buying up bonds ... perhaps someone will be telling us what to do. I'm not a national debt worry wart but the interest on the national debt is about to hit a new benchmark making it larger than simply providing basic services.
@grumpyoldman6503 it’s not like the US started going around the world wrecking entire countries and killing masses of people only after trump became president. This has been going on for a long time. The country is a criminal enterprise, with or without trump. Other presidents were just not quite as brazen and open about the crimes they were authorising.
I agree with NO KINGS, NO AUTOCRATS. However we need to be precise. Putin does not want the US and Western countries' populations to realize it yet, but Putin's speeches in Russian show that he's been leading Russia in a multi-pronged hybrid World War against us, fed by Russia's oil and gas exports. Key acts included helping Orban's anti-EU authoritarian takeover, the brutal artillery strikes that leveled huge cities like Allepo in Syria triggering a refugee flood into Europe, and fomenting violence, gangs etc in Venezuela, that led to floods of refugees to the US. Our homelands were not attacked by missiles, but it is a war nevertheless, if it is an intentional act to overwhelm the target countries' social supports, and make citizens racist, susceptible to anti-democratic right-wing and populist movements, from AfD in Germany to MAGA in the US. He sees these as stealthy, cheap and effective acts of war. So what should we do? Putin's goal are to tearing apart the "post-WW-2 World Order" of laws that keep autocrats and bullies in check to prevent a cataclysmic WW-3. His goal is to use these stealthy acts, plus corruption, propaganda, and power-hungry "useful idiots" like the Pro-Brexit leaders to break apart the EU block, NATO, other democratic institutions and traditions in the US, Europe, and to corrupt and control the mineral-rich Caucuses and key countries in the Middle East and Africa. But, as strong-men tend to do, Putin surrounded himself by loyal military and intelligence "yes" men who did not give him the truth, so he ordered a quick military invasion of Ukraine in 2022, capture and decapitation of Zelenskyy and a pro-Russia regime change. Does this sound familiar? Russia is sharing satellite intelligence with Iran with real-time secret locations of US airplanes, air defenses and soft outposts. Even though Witcoff and Putin and Trump are such buddies. Depending on how long Trump's war will last, just 0.5%-5% of the direct cost of Trump's unwise 2026 Middle East War could have funded US AID for a decade, and enough US support for Ukraine's defenses, attack drones and missiles on Russia's oil and gas production to ruin Russian economy and make them sue for peace. But instead, Trump has already nearly doubled the punishingly low oil prices, plus wrote an executive order lifting sanctions on Russia's exports of oil and gas (how much do you bet that Trump "asked" Putin if he'd be willing to sell oil to India and Europe?) So what will happen in a few years if we stay out of Russia's war against us, and let avaricious Trump or isolationist Vance let Russia take over Ukraine? When they took over Crimea, they forced the men into Russia's military front-lines, to fight against Ukraine. Imagine the 800,000+ strong Ukrainian army, by far the largest, battle-hardened, drone-savvy armed forces in Europe, forced into the front-lines against our NATO partners in Poland, Romania or the Baltic Countries?
@coraelizabethbrna439voters are ultimately to blame for this whole thing. That includes the people that don't show up to vote. Perhaps they are most to blame. People need to show up to vote.
Check out the Montana plan. It's on their ballot this fall and it honestly may be a way for us to render the decision void without having to overturn it.
Heather's mind is so organized that I appreciate all her 'rabbit holes' and 'I'll save that for laters' without missing a beat while on a topic. Her memory is also amazing.
@mobimeta2108yes. Certified marriage certificates and any legal divorce records. Then pay for these copies and fees, especially if you didnt reside in the state you were born. And lord don't get me started about any multiple marriages and divorces. Girls keep your maiden names.
She is writing „Letters from America“ and interviewing candidates and representatives for/from congress. And sometimes she is in conversation with others, like Joanne Freeman. She is great!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Perhaps we need to isolate the Treasury from all politicians. They can appropriate money as needed but We The People get a 30 day comment period where we can chime in if they are going off the rails.
That we know of. Im not military savvy. That said logically with all of the U.S. bases Iran has hit, who knows if they were able to get everyone out in time. Consider as well DT seeming to ignorantly think Iran wouldn’t retaliate.
Just ordered my passport at the PO, including a photo, not expedited, It cost $209. They mailed my certified birth certificate with it. They said it will be returned with the passport--here's hoping I get back. I should get by mid-May.I also had to pay for the birth certificate and the notary. The total cost was probably over $250. For someone living on Social Security and who has voted in every election since 1964.
Wait what?!? $50 billion a WEEK?!? W the absolute F????? What retaliation do we have? I feel like a class action lawsuit is in order, We The People v trump and cabinet. Our own DOGE is needed!! This regime is the most wasteful and inefficient administration ever!
There is always money for war. Never money for the poor. Nobody asked how the 20 years in Afghanistan to accomplish literally nothing was going to be paid for. We could have funded universal health care with that money and then some.
@grumpyoldman6503 2001-2019: 776,1 Billions; and VA and Defense 975 Billions (Wikipedia) This numbers don‘t include the sums your allies paid for their support. Because we paid it with our taxmoney.
It's the fraud and corruption of this administration that drives me crazy, especially after they campaigned on removing fraud and abuse from the government. They cut many beneficial programs and gutted government departments, resulting in layoffs for thousands of employees. What was their purpose, I ask myself every day. The only answer that I get --- they only wanted to line their own pockets and screw up this world. They get the money, with no accountability and no oversight. We have been bamboozled big time. Just review expenditure information on members of the administration.
Here in Kentucky all the Republican ads are literally about woke and transgender. They dont say one thing they will do to make our life better. Its absolutely sickening.
He didn't think he'd get in and get out. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, specialist on dictatorship, has been saying for a long time he needs a war to distract from his illegal acts. It's what dictators do.
I just wanna say that it's encouraging that it sounds like you are following Marc Elias. He's kinda my number 2 after Heather. Voting is what makes us a representative democracy. Without free and fair elections we are living under tyranny.
And enact a law that restricts the total amount of money any donor can give, and also the total any candidate can accept...Period! No loopholes. Everyone gets to play with the same financial hand.
It's more about getting private money out of public elections at scale. That includes lobbying Congress. Legalized bribery is the issue, not money as speech per se.
Montana is working on a state-level law that denies that corporations have any power to contribute to elections. Go Montana. Other states need to follow this.
Political leaders, no matter their ethics or agenda, must forge and maintain coalitions and so can never speak completely and factually in every public situation. Prof HCR's academic standing helps preserve her factual standing and reliability. As Americans, we need to remember that leadership is not limited to elected positions and we have the responsibility as citizens and voters to evaluate all voices.
Under the entire LGBTQ+ umbrella, we're probably looking at at the very least 7-10% who are out, not counting those who are closeted or in denial. These folks make a significant portion of our society, and they need and deserve to have equal rights and representation no matter the numbers.
Actually more than 9% of adults are LGBTQ according to two different Gallup and Ipsos polls. Remarkably, 20% of Gen Z identify as LGBT or Q. Just sayin.
We really need to vote in a government that doesn't pick on any one of us. The government is supposed to be helping us, not picking on us. God I hope people show up to vote.
All people are created equal. It is not a matter of percentages. They are being picked on like other people, unjustly and with prejudice from MAGA. Look at MAGA , They not only say people are not created equal, they TELL everyone which people are not equal. So much for the Declaration of independence, so much for the ideas of Christ. Equality is not debatable. This is a moral imperative.
And enact a law that restricts the total amount of money any donor can give, and also the total any candidate can accept...Period! No loopholes. Everyone gets to play with the same financial hand.
We need public service announcements that summarize what HCR covered, saying that the state offices taking voter registration applications are required to verify eligibility, i.e. your citizenship, before adding you to the voter rolls and mailing your card listing your voting location. Once that is done, a more basic form of ID at the polls should be sufficient, as it currently is in many states. In Alabama, there is a list of about a dozen ID’s that qualify and if that is changed under the SAVE America Act, it will truly be voter suppression. Ironically, in Alabama it could have as much impact on rural MAGA voters, since the more educated urban residents are MORE likely to have a passport and they lean Democratic.
Because the corrupt republican members of the house aren't allowing it. That is why we have to fix this stupid two-party system where the side with the most members can control everything! The way congress works needs to be reinvented...their rules are not only antiquated and slow, they allow for this nonsense.
As a Californian, I don’t trust that Kevin Kiley will even consider not voting maga. He’s awful. We won’t be fooled and he will lose badly in November.
For now the money comes out of the defense budget already appropriated, but within a few days Congress will be forced to consider a supplemental appropriation, and the effect of defeating that would be to cut off funding for the war.
You would have to have had your head in the sand over the past 40 years or so to think hitting a Middle Eastern Country- especially Iran - would be just a “quick in and out situation”. I feel so furious he started this war I am almost out of my mind about it…. The killing of innocent school girls and others is horrifying. Plus, he is spending our tax dollars without permission.
I’m so FURIOUS about this insane spending to line the pockets of these grifters and no spending on the things that the American people need AND WANT. Healthcare for all, education, paid family leave, universal childcare.
This is what we use be constantly voicing, money to spend on senseless unauthorized wars but not on healthcare, social justice support programs, lower taxes for everyday Americans, and the list goes on. We need to all be put for the 3/28 No kings Rally wherever you are. We reach that 3% and the statistics are on our side to overthrow this regime.
TS, expert on Eastern Europe, or RBG, who specializes on strongman mass psychology, are far more relevant to American history in this moment, ironically, with all due respect. This is not good enough for the moment we are in. The American historian should be ahead of those two on the front line and she is not, clearly. Even an economist like Joe Stiglitz, true, a Nobel but just an economist at the end of the day, is ahead of her and more relevant. Not top shelf analysis. Following for a while, she leaves out the half of it, always!
I have a birth certificate, but this week I learned that if the SAVE Act passed, that certificate would not be valid because it doesn't have the embossed seal. $50 to get a new certificate. Screams poll tax
Heather you work so hard for so many hours. I dont know how you do it but please never stop. We learn so much from you and pass that info to others. You are educating the whole country!
This is what happens when you have a “reality TV” performer as president and a Fox TV host (another performer) as SecDef. The only things they know relate to their appearance and how to talk to an audience.
Actually, Hegseth did not know how to talk to the IS military when he got them together last year. They just sat there stone faced while he blathered on. Talk about reading the room wrong...
That’s when voters are thinking TV and reality have a connection based on real living. Trump has never been a successful businessman nor a politician. Just a nepo-baby.
I’m a performer. I’m here to tell you that as a part of being able to perform, there is often a need to be heard and a feeling that it’s important to be a spectacle. You can rephrase that to make it kinder but there is a very specific personality type for a lot of performers. IMO it doesn’t play well in leadership positions such as president or congressperson
I couldn’t agree with you more Heather… We must work to get Citizens United overturned and get the dark money out of politics. Additionally, we must work to get taxes proportionally levied on the billionaires and to breakup the new Robber Barons of the 21st Century
Agree that billionaires should pay their fair share. I also don’t mind the incorrect term - I like my socialized life - Fire Department, Police Department, Education Department, Social Security Administration, Medicare Department, Highway Departments, Postal Service, etc.
Me too! For people who find words frightening, such as socialism, without understanding, then perhaps it is time they educate themselves. Because the word alone should not be your basis for making a decision about the topic.
I know I won't! And I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive anyone who votes for them or who did in the past. I may be willing to talk reasonably with them, but forgive - I don't think I can muster that.
@C@CatCaretakerIDu will be able to when you sense what it does to your physical well- being. The. You are friendly but not a buddy anymore. You have accepted differences but they are not allowing others their freedom when in no way does it hurt them! Blessings in Light & Love, MJ
I used to read Paul Krugman all the time in the NY TIMES. He is brilliant. He warned about the housing crash years before it happened and kept warning after it happened that Democrats would lose big if they just bailed out the banks and didn't find a way to help ordinary people. But unfortunately they listened to people like Rubin and Sommers and we all saw what happened - DJTerrible.
My favorite part (with a small alteration to underscore that the mending and conserving are OUR work to do): "America! America! Let's mend thine every flaw, Conserve thy soul In self-control, Thy liberty in law!"
He also insulted the presidents of Latin America and while asking for their cooperation, he told them he had no time to learn their damn language (Spanish).
He barely speaks English. There’s no way he can learn basic words or phrases in another language. Although, he may know how to say, “Yes, master” in Russian. 🧐
I’m amazed at how insulting it is for MAGA GOP to assume that non- MAGA voters are the only ones who won’t have the correct ID available or that we are the only ones who vote by mail. It’s horribly ignorant.
If you want to know what the regime is doing in Iran FOLLOW THE MONEY! Look into the Trump family's transactional relationship with Saudi Arabia, Quatar, Israel, UAE to name a few........
We've been living through hell since Citizens United. Its one if the biggest scams cemented by our SCOTUS conservatives. And look where the US is now; big corporations and dark money running this country. Believe it. We need to end Citizens United.
Trump doesn’t have a problem sleeping at night, knowing that he killed nearly 200 innocent little girls and their teachers. It makes me sick to be an American. I didn’t vote for this.
Part of his insanity is that he doesn't sleep at night...it is a symptom of his dementia. That is why he posts dozens of texts in the middle of the night.
Thank you for pointing out what the SAVE act is really about!! I’ve always shown my driver’s license to vote. That’s not the big change. The SAVE ACT affects mostly women and poor people and immigrants. Those are the people he doesn’t want to be allowed to vote.
Hey crazy person, that is not confirmed, no relative or first responder, has come forward so its just propaganda. So stop spreading lies for the enemy. I know you wish so bad that it was true because Trump looking bad is more important to you guys with TDS than anything else in life.
yaall love to be miserable, negative, put upon😢,and depressed. God Im glad you have each other. Bc I couldnt stand to be around all the gloom and doom
Thanks Prof H C Richardson for your thoughts, facts and truth. May Americans stand up for their democracy, freedom, betterment of all their citizens and consequentially the world. John lampe, sunny Perth, Western Australia.
Around 8 pm tonight, Aaron Parnas announced that the SAVE Act is dead in the Senate, not enough votes to do a filibuster. Sadly, state legislatures might pass laws like it.
Thank you Professor Cox Richardson! Your information helps calm my feelings during this presidential term. Rabbit holes about history are 100% welcome. Please bring on the history.😊😊😊❤
Having come from a conservative Christian community where I spent 25 years as an adult, I suggest that we on the left need to build a parallel type of community to the Church. Nothing religious but rather moral and especially civic. We could study the great thinkers who shaped Western society as well as the way other cultures throughout time structured their societies. And most importantly, act as a central hub for neighborly compassion and resources. The church does the latter very well, which is how they wield so much influence.
The camps are especially worrying. For anyone seriously and earnestly shocked that such a thing could even happen on US soil, talk to some Japanese-American or indigenous elders. Tragically, this isn't new. It's just wider.
Let’s stand around negotiating the law with a madman while he’s leading us to legitimizing nukes. It’s time for him to be relieved of his pilot duties before the plane is crashed.
I see the SAVE act as a mouse trap. The people saying "its obvious this is good because its JUST ensuring citizens votes" are the mice who are going for the cheese, even if it means their demise.
This sounds like The Constitution 101. We all see the recent results. It is not how it is supposed to be. This is some new way we have to figure out how to get out of this. Presently and going forward.
The world would be so much better off with *NO* b!llionaires! We should tax them out of existence! For perspective: One m!llion seconds = about 11 and a half days. One b!llion seconds = more than 31 years. Who needs that kind of money??
That's what I've heard, as well!!! Not only that - there was a sort of "command center" or government building of some sort (?) nearby the school, which was NOT hit!!!
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Number one issue for everyone in this country should be "MONEY OUT OF POLITICS" period
YES!!
take religion out of politics please
@zezezepremove religious tax exemptions
We’re working on it in Michigan.
@cherijohnson3939Yes! That would solve so many problems in one swoop.
1. TAX THE RICH; 2. REPEAL CITIZEN’S UNITED. 💪🏼🇺🇸
Absolutely!!!
@H.O.P.E.1122 and don't forget the Patriot Act also
Yes! Remind everyone it’s wealth/power against the rest of us.
GET EVERY MILLIONAIRE OUT OF GOVERNMENT AND ABOLISH PACS AND ALL LOBBYING!!!!
And Trump vs. US, and the Patriot Act, and the Big Bogus Bill.
The USA doesn't have any RIGHTS to tell other countries what to do regarding any damn thing.
agreed. that has hit me hard lately when I listen to his hubris.
Not a moral right, I agree.
Unfortunately for us, the Fascists that got elected in '24 don't believe in democracy and their "morals" boil down to "Might makes Right" or "who's going to stop us?". That many were screaming this from the rooftops ahead of the election is irrelevant at this point (no wars candidate, eh?).
Israel of late works from the same playbook for the same reason(s). Together **we** are the axis of evil.
the only thing we have rights to do is to ask and negotiate. that is the civilized way to work things out.
What?!?! Are you sure? Does Trump know? 😂 Seriously, when our creditors stop buying up bonds ... perhaps someone will be telling us what to do. I'm not a national debt worry wart but the interest on the national debt is about to hit a new benchmark making it larger than simply providing basic services.
@grumpyoldman6503 it’s not like the US started going around the world wrecking entire countries and killing masses of people only after trump became president. This has been going on for a long time. The country is a criminal enterprise, with or without trump. Other presidents were just not quite as brazen and open about the crimes they were authorising.
NO KINGS DAY AND NO WAR DAY TOO!!!!
3/28/26
We will show up in record numbers! We WILL take back the country! We the People! I am French! We know about revolutions!
I agree with NO KINGS, NO AUTOCRATS. However we need to be precise. Putin does not want the US and Western countries' populations to realize it yet, but Putin's speeches in Russian show that he's been leading Russia in a multi-pronged hybrid World War against us, fed by Russia's oil and gas exports. Key acts included helping Orban's anti-EU authoritarian takeover, the brutal artillery strikes that leveled huge cities like Allepo in Syria triggering a refugee flood into Europe, and fomenting violence, gangs etc in Venezuela, that led to floods of refugees to the US. Our homelands were not attacked by missiles, but it is a war nevertheless, if it is an intentional act to overwhelm the target countries' social supports, and make citizens racist, susceptible to anti-democratic right-wing and populist movements, from AfD in Germany to MAGA in the US. He sees these as stealthy, cheap and effective acts of war.
So what should we do?
Putin's goal are to tearing apart the "post-WW-2 World Order" of laws that keep autocrats and bullies in check to prevent a cataclysmic WW-3. His goal is to use these stealthy acts, plus corruption, propaganda, and power-hungry "useful idiots" like the Pro-Brexit leaders to break apart the EU block, NATO, other democratic institutions and traditions in the US, Europe, and to corrupt and control the mineral-rich Caucuses and key countries in the Middle East and Africa.
But, as strong-men tend to do, Putin surrounded himself by loyal military and intelligence "yes" men who did not give him the truth, so he ordered a quick military invasion of Ukraine in 2022, capture and decapitation of Zelenskyy and a pro-Russia regime change. Does this sound familiar?
Russia is sharing satellite intelligence with Iran with real-time secret locations of US airplanes, air defenses and soft outposts. Even though Witcoff and Putin and Trump are such buddies.
Depending on how long Trump's war will last, just 0.5%-5% of the direct cost of Trump's unwise 2026 Middle East War could have funded US AID for a decade, and enough US support for Ukraine's defenses, attack drones and missiles on Russia's oil and gas production to ruin Russian economy and make them sue for peace. But instead, Trump has already nearly doubled the punishingly low oil prices, plus wrote an executive order lifting sanctions on Russia's exports of oil and gas (how much do you bet that Trump "asked" Putin if he'd be willing to sell oil to India and Europe?)
So what will happen in a few years if we stay out of Russia's war against us, and let avaricious Trump or isolationist Vance let Russia take over Ukraine? When they took over Crimea, they forced the men into Russia's military front-lines, to fight against Ukraine. Imagine the 800,000+ strong Ukrainian army, by far the largest, battle-hardened, drone-savvy armed forces in Europe, forced into the front-lines against our NATO partners in Poland, Romania or the Baltic Countries?
How about a No idiots day? Be sure and wear your frog suit, LOLOL!!!
@thecatisoutofthebag83 Y'all can't even start a lawnmower, LOLOL!!!
This is taxation without representation. Congress is not representing us.
Thanks to MAGA Mike Johnson and John Thune!
but...we keep voting these clowns in...
Exactly. The damn Republicans should have impeached him already. The GOP caucus is complicit in Trump's failures and crimes.
@coraelizabethbrna439voters are ultimately to blame for this whole thing. That includes the people that don't show up to vote. Perhaps they are most to blame. People need to show up to vote.
$165.00 now.
I lived in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. I am NOT tired of hearing you talk about the National Weather Service.
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Get rid of citizens united! There is a great start!
Check out the Montana plan. It's on their ballot this fall and it honestly may be a way for us to render the decision void without having to overturn it.
100000% agree!
Yeah you're right and get rid of the Unions that back politicians s well.
@lifeingeneral9111 The Unions can never match the resources, corporations have at their disposal.
Here in Michigan we’re circulating a petition to get legislation to limit money in politics.
Great news
Please never worry about going down rabbit holes. We'll follow you every time
Heather's mind is so organized that I appreciate all her 'rabbit holes' and 'I'll save that for laters' without missing a beat while on a topic. Her memory is also amazing.
Love your rabbit holes!!
And an affidavit to confirm your new name if name changed by marriage or other?
@mobimeta2108yes. Certified marriage certificates and any legal divorce records. Then pay for these copies and fees, especially if you didnt reside in the state you were born. And lord don't get me started about any multiple marriages and divorces. Girls keep your maiden names.
Thank you, Heather, for all your hard work producing these videos week after week.
And sometimes day after day.
She is writing „Letters from America“ and interviewing candidates and representatives for/from congress. And sometimes she is in conversation with others, like Joanne Freeman. She is great!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
They are stealing and wasting our money. Impeach, Convict and Remove them all!
Perhaps we need to isolate the Treasury from all politicians. They can appropriate money as needed but We The People get a 30 day comment period where we can chime in if they are going off the rails.
@CatCaretakerIDI think we need to eliminate lobbying when its only purpose is to increase profits for for-profit corporations…for one thing
@betsy5231💕❤️💫✨️🌟✨️💫❤️💕
BILL MAGA for the money, this is all THEIR fault.
Easier said than done! Mehmet Oz is a handmaiden of Trump! It's a one way street! Feeding Trump's Ego!
“Democracy is not a spectator sport”
Billions wasted and nine dead already! No troops into Iran. Not one precious drop of blood! Blessings and gratitude to you from Ohio.
Seriously! I don’t believe them either. Sadly, I think it’s more than that have died. No more war! No more deaths!
That we know of. Im not military savvy. That said logically with all of the U.S. bases Iran has hit, who knows if they were able to get everyone out in time. Consider as well DT seeming to ignorantly think Iran wouldn’t retaliate.
Plus now we learn about 150 seriously injured (which can include dismemberment etc).
150 injured. They were trying to cover that up.
Nine? More like 100
Just ordered my passport at the PO, including a photo, not expedited, It cost $209. They mailed my certified birth certificate with it. They said it will be returned with the passport--here's hoping I get back. I should get by mid-May.I also had to pay for the birth certificate and the notary. The total cost was probably over $250. For someone living on Social Security and who has voted in every election since 1964.
I paid, via mail, for my birth certificate, which was $15. So, the rest of the amount you paid was the Notary?
That is just plain outrageous. Thanks for going the extra mile anyway.
Bless you friend.
@meredithheath5272 passport
Good for you ! Think if elderly who have no xtra$$$$ to spend. That's why we need to help. Financially if we can
Wait what?!? $50 billion a WEEK?!? W the absolute F????? What retaliation do we have? I feel like a class action lawsuit is in order, We The People v trump and cabinet. Our own DOGE is needed!! This regime is the most wasteful and inefficient administration ever!
Live in a state with Republican reps or senators? Make notes on your calendar for the midterms. And if only the money were the worst of it ...
We must make sure we get Trump's billions locked up so we aren't totally broke when he leaves.
There is always money for war. Never money for the poor.
Nobody asked how the 20 years in Afghanistan to accomplish literally nothing was going to be paid for.
We could have funded universal health care with that money and then some.
@grumpyoldman6503 2001-2019: 776,1 Billions; and VA and Defense 975 Billions (Wikipedia)
This numbers don‘t include the sums your allies paid for their support.
Because we paid it with our taxmoney.
It's the fraud and corruption of this administration that drives me crazy, especially after they campaigned on removing fraud and abuse from the government. They cut many beneficial programs and gutted government departments, resulting in layoffs for thousands of employees. What was their purpose, I ask myself every day. The only answer that I get --- they only wanted to line their own pockets and screw up this world. They get the money, with no accountability and no oversight. We have been bamboozled big time. Just review expenditure information on members of the administration.
Save act is why I told my daughter when she got married last year not to change her name.
After my first divorce I changed my name back to my maiden name. Then when I got remarried I kept my maiden name and I'm really glad I did.
Yay - smart!!! ☝🏿☝🏿☝🏼☝🏻☝️🏆🏆🏆🤲💞🫶
Sadly, good advice. Also just locate your birth cert s NOW. You can get copies from local govt, vital statistics offices
Me Too. And when my rich CEO X BIL ( divorce#2) told me not to tarnish the family name I told him not to worry his pretty head over it lol!
@lesliecurran1704 Same!
Here in Kentucky all the Republican ads are literally about woke and transgender. They dont say one thing they will do to make our life better. Its absolutely sickening.
they're hoping a "culture war," is still relevant. It's not! Dems are going to sweep in the midterms! 🌊🌊🌊
And that’s how they have been winning, because MAGA voters are scared of EVERYTHING.
He didn't think he'd get in and get out.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, specialist on dictatorship, has been saying for a long time he needs a war to distract from his illegal acts.
It's what dictators do.
@jennifer60515 conservatism is fear of change!
Push back at every opportunity you can!!
We definitely need to get rid of Citizens United. I’m sick of our tax dollars being used for wars and to fund Israel.
I am from Western Europe. Without intelligent voices such as yours, I would not believe that the US democracy is salvageable. Thank you!
Thank you for seeing us. Heather is a breath of sanity, ethics and knowledge, that helps me keep going.
We Americans are also, so grateful for voices and people like Heather Cox Richardson.
agreeing from the old 'new world' ANZ
Thank you for your support. 🌿
🕯️💣🚬 better be elections and with proven no tampering of machines,
Thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for sharing your intelligence, your integrity, your voice, and your courage and compassion. 💙🩵💙
"Be the change you wish to see."
-Mahatma Gandhi
There is another Gandi quote that I love . When asked what he thought about western civilization , he said , “ I think it would be a good idea.”
@janetfrench1576
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Its shocking how low little the super rich pay in taxes.
Lets not forget the great point Mark Elias makes - Trump does not accept valid birth certificates when they work against his agenda.
I just wanna say that it's encouraging that it sounds like you are following Marc Elias. He's kinda my number 2 after Heather. Voting is what makes us a representative democracy. Without free and fair elections we are living under tyranny.
@SiriusPutsch_LyraBee I am with you. Both are extremely smart!
Thank you for not letting the camps be forgotten.
Pushing for overruling Citizen United should be our number one priority. We will be trapped in this cycle if we don't overrule Citizen United.
And enact a law that restricts the total amount of money any donor can give, and also the total any candidate can accept...Period! No loopholes. Everyone gets to play with the same financial hand.
It's more about getting private money out of public elections at scale.
That includes lobbying Congress.
Legalized bribery is the issue, not money as speech per se.
Montana is working on a state-level law that denies that corporations have any power to contribute to elections.
Go Montana.
Other states need to follow this.
Absolutely!!
Agreed. I also believe Congress members cannot trade stocks.
The concentration camps are in my mind too! Im so grateful for your videos
HCR, why aren't YOU the President? I'd vote for you!
She’s a smart woman, toxic in American politics 😢
ME TOO👏🙏🇺🇸💙🙏‼️
GOD BLESS HCR🙏🇺🇸🙏💙‼️
Political leaders, no matter their ethics or agenda, must forge and maintain coalitions and so can never speak completely and factually in every public situation. Prof HCR's academic standing helps preserve her factual standing and reliability.
As Americans, we need to remember that leadership is not limited to elected positions and we have the responsibility as citizens and voters to evaluate all voices.
She's too smart to run.
@CornerCaseGirl Well said.
We're in the middle of a tornado and a hailstorm in Oklahoma City, OK. The National Weather Service matters to us!
Godspeed
Heather is the voice of reason personified.
Thank you Heather 🩵🩵🩵
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Thank you a million times. You offer us reason, research, facts, a voice of sanity, and important information. Thank you.✊️🗽
Too bad he didn't offer what he had when it would have been useful. Book dollars are more important ya know.
The LBGTQ folks are less than 1% in our country and yet, they're constantly picked on.
Under the entire LGBTQ+ umbrella, we're probably looking at at the very least 7-10% who are out, not counting those who are closeted or in denial. These folks make a significant portion of our society, and they need and deserve to have equal rights and representation no matter the numbers.
Actually more than 9% of adults are LGBTQ according to two different Gallup and Ipsos polls. Remarkably, 20% of Gen Z identify as LGBT or Q. Just sayin.
These NeoCons have one goal: Keep us in turmoil while they steal us blind. An international grift
We really need to vote in a government that doesn't pick on any one of us. The government is supposed to be helping us, not picking on us. God I hope people show up to vote.
All people are created equal. It is not a matter of percentages. They are being picked on like other people, unjustly and with prejudice from MAGA. Look at MAGA , They not only say people are not created equal, they TELL everyone which people are not equal. So much for the Declaration of independence, so much for the ideas of Christ. Equality is not debatable. This is a moral imperative.
Thank you for giving us a clear view of what’s really happening, Dr. Richardson, and what we all can do to help.
Yes let’s get rid of Citizens United!!!!
GOD YES!!!!
And enact a law that restricts the total amount of money any donor can give, and also the total any candidate can accept...Period! No loopholes. Everyone gets to play with the same financial hand.
Susan Collin never fails to disappoint. What the hell
We need public service announcements that summarize what HCR covered, saying that the state offices taking voter registration applications are required to verify eligibility, i.e. your citizenship, before adding you to the voter rolls and mailing your card listing your voting location. Once that is done, a more basic form of ID at the polls should be sufficient, as it currently is in many states. In Alabama, there is a list of about a dozen ID’s that qualify and if that is changed under the SAVE America Act, it will truly be voter suppression. Ironically, in Alabama it could have as much impact on rural MAGA voters, since the more educated urban residents are MORE likely to have a passport and they lean Democratic.
how are they able to access the $1B a day to fund this criminal illegal war? who is releasing the funds? why can't they be stopped?
The republican congress is releasing the money. We need a super majority in November
Because the corrupt republican members of the house aren't allowing it. That is why we have to fix this stupid two-party system where the side with the most members can control everything! The way congress works needs to be reinvented...their rules are not only antiquated and slow, they allow for this nonsense.
As a Californian, I don’t trust that Kevin Kiley will even consider not voting maga. He’s awful. We won’t be fooled and he will lose badly in November.
@JustKris2why would anybody vote for MAGA in the first place? They're obviously the bad guys. 🤷♀️🙄🇺🇲
For now the money comes out of the defense budget already appropriated, but within a few days Congress will be forced to consider a supplemental appropriation, and the effect of defeating that would be to cut off funding for the war.
You would have to have had your head in the sand over the past 40 years or so to think hitting a Middle Eastern Country- especially Iran - would be just a “quick in and out situation”. I feel so furious he started this war I am almost out of my mind about it…. The killing of innocent school girls and others is horrifying. Plus, he is spending our tax dollars without permission.
I’m so FURIOUS about this insane spending to line the pockets of these grifters and no spending on the things that the American people need AND WANT. Healthcare for all, education, paid family leave, universal childcare.
Same. And yes to all of that!
This is what we use be constantly voicing, money to spend on senseless unauthorized wars but not on healthcare, social justice support programs, lower taxes for everyday Americans, and the list goes on. We need to all be put for the 3/28 No kings Rally wherever you are. We reach that 3% and the statistics are on our side to overthrow this regime.
You are absolutely brilliant
TS, expert on Eastern Europe, or RBG, who specializes on strongman mass psychology, are far more relevant to American history in this moment, ironically, with all due respect. This is not good enough for the moment we are in. The American historian should be ahead of those two on the front line and she is not, clearly. Even an economist like Joe Stiglitz, true, a Nobel but just an economist at the end of the day, is ahead of her and more relevant. Not top shelf analysis. Following for a while, she leaves out the half of it, always!
“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country”
Old typing exercise put to real good
@ikeus685 thanks for the reminder. I forgot all about typing class.
@ikeus685me too ☺️
I feel very old now.
@NewsEditorRIme too
I have a birth certificate, but this week I learned that if the SAVE Act passed, that certificate would not be valid because it doesn't have the embossed seal. $50 to get a new certificate. Screams poll tax
When we left Vietnam, the popularity of that war was about 29 percent. The popularity of this war is about 25 percent.
Heather you work so hard for so many hours. I dont know how you do it but please never stop. We learn so much from you and pass that info to others. You are educating the whole country!
The incompetence of the Department of Blunder, Department of Injustice, the whole administration: Unbelievable.
That’s what makes it a regime…
Clean air and clean water!
This is what happens when you have a “reality TV” performer as president and a Fox TV host (another performer) as SecDef. The only things they know relate to their appearance and how to talk to an audience.
Actually, Hegseth did not know how to talk to the IS military when he got them together last year. They just sat there stone faced while he blathered on. Talk about reading the room wrong...
That’s when voters are thinking TV and reality have a connection based on real living. Trump has never been a successful businessman nor a politician. Just a nepo-baby.
I’m a performer. I’m here to tell you that as a part of being able to perform, there is often a need to be heard and a feeling that it’s important to be a spectacle. You can rephrase that to make it kinder but there is a very specific personality type for a lot of performers. IMO it doesn’t play well in leadership positions such as president or congressperson
We had tornadoes in Oklahoma tonight. We treasure the National Weather Service.
I couldn’t agree with you more Heather… We must work to get Citizens United overturned and get the dark money out of politics. Additionally, we must work to get taxes proportionally levied on the billionaires and to breakup the new Robber Barons of the 21st Century
You Rock! Repeal Citizens United, corporations are not people!!
Agree that billionaires should pay their fair share. I also don’t mind the incorrect term -
I like my socialized life - Fire Department, Police Department, Education Department, Social Security Administration, Medicare Department, Highway Departments, Postal Service, etc.
Why can't regular people understand this concept 🤔
Universal Healthcare, Education, State Colleges, etc.
Considering that we pay taxes which should go for the greater good and investment into the citizens, I completely agree.
Me too! For people who find words frightening, such as socialism, without understanding, then perhaps it is time they educate themselves. Because the word alone should not be your basis for making a decision about the topic.
@robynjoan1778jealousy.
@CatCaretakerID❤
Love you Heather! Thank you and keep on being an American!
HCR I love to listen to you, I’m also a history nut. You’re always so informative and concise. Keep up the good work.
I feel the same way! Could listen to her all day.
Thank you for shining a light on these very dark times. WE have to keep going. Demand democracy. Thank you. Thank you!
Fund “the democracy docket”, “democracy forward.” M. Alias is fighting the good fight in the courts!
Most definitely - their law suits are what are keeping this rogue regime in check.
Marc Elias is indeed doing a lot of good work
Yes. Continue boycotting billionaire companies...No to Home Depot. WaPost, Amazon, HobbyLobby, Koch Bros ( Ga Pacific products), soc. media, CBS/Paramount/ Disney, etc. Yes to independent media-- PBS, NPR radio, Democ. Now, Politico, Bulwark, Guardian, etc.
Trump might have thought this was going to be quick but Netanyahu knew exactly what he was getting us into.
I don't believe that I'll EVER vote for another Republican again.
I NEVER have, and I NEVER will.
@robynjoan1778 I was a Republican before they went to the dark side.
I know I won't! And I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive anyone who votes for them or who did in the past. I may be willing to talk reasonably with them, but forgive - I don't think I can muster that.
@CatCaretakerID I am the same
@C@CatCaretakerIDu will be able to when you sense what it does to your physical well- being. The. You are friendly but not a buddy anymore. You have accepted differences but they are not allowing others their freedom when in no way does it hurt them! Blessings in Light & Love, MJ
You are so right about the commonalities of what we the people want!
So glad to have you as a voice of reason in these dark times. Looking forward to Lunch Money
This regime is going to bankrupt us just like his businesses.
Congrat’s on the new show with Paul Krugman. Really looking forward to it!! 🎉😊🎉
I used to read Paul Krugman all the time in the NY TIMES. He is brilliant. He warned about the housing crash years before it happened and kept warning after it happened that Democrats would lose big if they just bailed out the banks and didn't find a way to help ordinary people. But unfortunately they listened to people like Rubin and Sommers and we all saw what happened - DJTerrible.
I miss America the Beautiful. I am in a constant state of grief.
My favorite part (with a small alteration to underscore that the mending and conserving are OUR work to do):
"America! America!
Let's mend thine every flaw,
Conserve thy soul
In self-control,
Thy liberty in law!"
He also insulted the presidents of Latin America and while asking for their cooperation, he told them he had no time to learn their damn language (Spanish).
When it's true he has, actually, no ability.
One word-ignorance 😢
He barely speaks English. There’s no way he can learn basic words or phrases in another language. Although, he may know how to say, “Yes, master” in Russian. 🧐
He struggled with nearly every name of these leaders😂.
I still don’t understand how someone so corrupt and evil is running the Republican Party and they are allowing it.
How many Republicans are complaining?
LUNCH MONEY!!!! I love it. So happy you and Paul will be doing this! You are both American treasures.
AGREE! I read them every morning and listen to them too.
I’m amazed at how insulting it is for MAGA GOP to assume that non- MAGA voters are the only ones who won’t have the correct ID available or that we are the only ones who vote by mail. It’s horribly ignorant.
If you want to know what the regime is doing in Iran FOLLOW THE MONEY! Look into the Trump family's transactional relationship with Saudi Arabia, Quatar, Israel, UAE to name a few........
ABSOLUTELY!
Is getting interesting if they are now still support him. Only Saudi-Arabia was on the side of this war with USA and Israel.
Unfortunately, he has made us less safe. I can't see when it will feel normal again.
Boracay, Philippines. Retired nurse from Tucson, Arizona. I love to hear relevant history from Maine.
fellow bisaya FilAm from Bacolod here - xoxo
We've been living through hell since Citizens United. Its one if the biggest scams cemented by our SCOTUS conservatives. And look where the US is now; big corporations and dark money running this country. Believe it.
We need to end Citizens United.
As a guy who's been verbally harassed by several MAGAs... when they fall back to "you're putting guys in girls bathrooms!!!" they know they're losing.
I like your attitude "pick a lane". Focus on what's most important vs. being all over the anger map.
good tactic
Trump doesn’t have a problem sleeping at night, knowing that he killed nearly 200 innocent little girls and their teachers. It makes me sick to be an American. I didn’t vote for this.
Part of his insanity is that he doesn't sleep at night...it is a symptom of his dementia. That is why he posts dozens of texts in the middle of the night.
People in America have NEVER been treated equally.
Thank you for pointing out what the SAVE act is really about!! I’ve always shown my driver’s license to vote. That’s not the big change. The SAVE ACT affects mostly women and poor people and immigrants. Those are the people he doesn’t want to be allowed to vote.
Hey crazy person, that is not confirmed, no relative or first responder, has come forward so its just propaganda. So stop spreading lies for the enemy. I know you wish so bad that it was true because Trump looking bad is more important to you guys with TDS than anything else in life.
yaall love to be miserable, negative, put upon😢,and depressed. God Im glad you have each other. Bc I couldnt stand to be around all the gloom and doom
Thanks Prof H C Richardson for your thoughts, facts and truth. May Americans stand up for their democracy, freedom, betterment of all their citizens and consequentially the world. John lampe, sunny Perth, Western Australia.
Hello from heavily gerrymandered, already disenfranchised Dayton Ohio. Sorry I'm late. I was asleep.
Greetings from wickedly gerrymandered, corrupt Texas
We got issues, aye?
Around 8 pm tonight, Aaron Parnas announced that the SAVE Act is dead in the Senate, not enough votes to do a filibuster. Sadly, state legislatures might pass laws like it.
So we should get our passports JIC.
I live in a very red area. The people here are totally convinced Iran was on the brink of nuking us. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😩😩😩😩
Isn't some of that conviction performative conformity? One would hope...
Stupid is as stupid does.
Faux news needs to be charged for spreading that lie!! They are evil.
When they pay attention for 5 minutes a day, the loudest voice (on their station of choice) wins their brains.
Even after Trump obliterated their nuclear capabilities? Hmmm.
Thank you Professor Cox Richardson! Your information helps calm my feelings during this presidential term. Rabbit holes about history are 100% welcome. Please bring on the history.😊😊😊❤
Having come from a conservative Christian community where I spent 25 years as an adult, I suggest that we on the left need to build a parallel type of community to the Church. Nothing religious but rather moral and especially civic. We could study the great thinkers who shaped Western society as well as the way other cultures throughout time structured their societies. And most importantly, act as a central hub for neighborly compassion and resources. The church does the latter very well, which is how they wield so much influence.
We really need something like this for HS youth to offer a counterbalance to TPUSA
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There are a few Ethical Society chapters remaining in the USA.
Some progressive leaders express it this way: We need not think alike to care or love alike.
Agreed!
Thank God we have people like you in our corner. Thank God we have people like you standing up and speaking out;
Thank you so much for these Heather. Your dash of daily reason and logic helps me maintain some hope in these disheartening times.
The camps are especially worrying.
For anyone seriously and earnestly shocked that such a thing could even happen on US soil, talk to some Japanese-American or indigenous elders.
Tragically, this isn't new. It's just wider.
Let’s stand around negotiating the law with a madman while he’s leading us to legitimizing nukes. It’s time for him to be relieved of his pilot duties before the plane is crashed.
Thanks Heather ! Very enlightening and encouraging
I do love a good rabbit hole. 🐰
Rabbits rock! 🐇
🙋🏽♀️ I'm here for it 🐇
Her rabbit holes give great basis for what's happening.
@cmkv28bcT-shirt idea. “Let’s go down a rabbit hole with HCR”
@debbiemelnikoff The illustration would be fun, too!
I see the SAVE act as a mouse trap. The people saying "its obvious this is good because its JUST ensuring citizens votes" are the mice who are going for the cheese, even if it means their demise.
I have seen so many maga comments online - a lot by women - who blithely laugh it off as not true and ain't gonna happen. Ignorance is bliss.
This sounds like The Constitution 101.
We all see the recent results.
It is not how it is supposed to be.
This is some new way we have to figure out how to get out of this.
Presently and going forward.
As always, thank you for the important work you are doing. It's very appreciated. May God protect your health and peace.
I’m so thankful that I didn’t change my name for my last marriage and kept my maiden name.
it now seems Victorian to change one's surname
Me too and twas sheer inertia on my part. ⭕️
You were smart!
Agree - it's almost "Victorian" to change your name to your spouse's!!
Same! For once, not following social norms made life easier for me 😅
Thank you Heather. You are our beacon of light.
I love your rabbit holes! I really feel that’s where we find the parts that weave everything else together
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Thank YOU for being here Heather!
Thank you Heather. You are my favorite you tube podcaster. Your truth is so refreshing. ❤
We need you HCR!!!!
I’ll bet anything he stole the tariff money and put it in an off shore.
Yep. And if refunds are given, it should be to the American people, who paid the higher prices, not businesses
No doubt!!! 🤬
I have also thought trump has somehow stolen tariff money.
EXACTLY
The world would be so much better off with *NO* b!llionaires! We should tax them out of existence!
For perspective: One m!llion seconds = about 11 and a half days. One b!llion seconds = more than 31 years.
Who needs that kind of money??
So appreciate all you do; would be lost without your perspective and leadership; thank you. (Eugene, OR)
0:50 I half expected her to lift up the rock right here. I was like... oh my god, that's wild, she just has the Michigan rock on lock ready to go!
Love "hellscape tour bus!' 😂😂😂
listening later in the day from Meadowbrook neighborhood, Seattle, WA. Thanks you, Heather!
To make it worse, the school was hit twice
That doesn't sound like a mistake
That's what I've heard, as well!!! Not only that - there was a sort of "command center" or government building of some sort (?) nearby the school, which was NOT hit!!!
SO, so very grateful for you Heather!! Sending love from Canada❤️