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#ChaosRecap for October 2, 2026

#TrumpTrainWreck

You know you're in Trump Country, when the government creates a Department of War and abolishes a Department of Education.🗽

I filled out Steve Scalise's survey and let him know what I thought of his MAGA mandate and his overlord Trump. I once thought he was a pretty bright guy, but not anymore. He's either senile or a sniveling coward, I can't decide which it is. x.com/SteveScaliseGO…

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@Suzierizzo1 QUOTE: "Who thinks the same thing that Kamala Harris actually won the 2024 election?" NOT ME. Our elections are free and fair, always have been always will be because of the brilliance of our founders in giving the states the right to tally the ballots.

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It seems to be a vicious circle. A normal person would think we would have learned from history. So what does that say about people who accept today, what we fought to eradicate in World War 2?

🗽Heather Cox Richardson When told by the State Dept. they intended to make the switch anyway, Senator Shaheen and Rep Meeks put a hold on the funds. Late yesterday, the administration told Congress it is defying the hold and moving ahead. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-1-20…

🗽Robert Reich AutoWar: The nightmare "Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way..." Read: robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar?utm_…

#ChaosRecap for October 1, 2026

After 40 years as a Republican I changed to Independent back in 2003 when George W invaded Iraq on the lie there were weapons of mass destruction. That cost the U.S. a two-trillion dollar 20-year war, and almost 5,000 American soldiers lives, and another 30,000 wounded. And Johnson's a putz.

@Welcome82351741 Thank you, you're right. Anyone who has a conscience is suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. It's hard to see that stupid old fart destroying America one stupid thoughtless executive order after another and not feel out of sorts.

The reasons I didn't vote for Donald Trump: Trump incited a deadly assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His extremist justices took away women’s right to control their own bodies. He wants huge tariffs, which are essentially a tax on American consumers. He stole top secrets and left them in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom. He bragged about grabbing the private parts of women he’d just met. He called for a “day of violence” in which police could do whatever they wanted with no accountability. He says his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants will be “a bloody story.” He pushed the fake-electors scheme to overturn a fair election. He called his opponents “vermin,” echoing hate speech from the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwanda massacre. He invited the Taliban to Camp David. He claimed you need an ID to buy cereal. He pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. He said a 2nd Trump administration would give a major health policy role to anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., a disturbed person who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and cut off the head of a dead whale with a chainsaw and strapped it to the roof of his minivan. (Really.) He was friends with Jeffrey Epstein. He helped the Saudis cover up the murder and dismemberment of a U.S.-based journalist. He wants to use the military to put down “the enemy from within” – Democrats. He thinks windmills cause cancer. He used a Sharpie to doctor an official weather map rather than admit he was wrong about a hurricane hitting Alabama. He lied that “Dems want to shut your churches down, permanently.” He said falsely that Mexico would pay for the wall. His administration separated migrant children from their parents and then lost track of the parents. He said he'd be a dictator, but only on “Day 1” (which is not how dictators operate). He denounced Denmark’s leader because she wouldn’t sell him Greenland. He increased the national debt by 39% in just 4 years while giving the rich a big tax cut. He said of his daughter Ivanka: “She does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” He lied publicly that Covid-19 was “like a regular flu that we have flu shots for” while he privately said it was “more deadly than even your strenuous flu.” He suggested that putting light in people's bodies and injecting them with disinfectant could kill Covid. He had to pay $2 million in a lawsuit over the Trump Foundation’s misuse of charity funds. He called Mexican immigrants “rapists.” On 9/11, he bragged that the fall of the Twin Towers meant his building was NYC's tallest. That boast was tasteless — and false. He touted his business acumen but couldn’t make a profit from casinos and filed for bankruptcy six times. He said a judge in one of his legal cases should be removed because he was of Mexican descent. He called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries.” He threatened to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, a key alliance for global stability. He urged supporters to "knock the crap out of" protesters at a 2016 rally. He made false statements more than 30,000 times as president. He lied that an “extremely credible source” told him Obama’s birth certificate was fake. After years of pushing the birtherism hoax, Trump admitted it was bunk — and he blamed it on Hillary Clinton. He took Putin’s word over the word of U.S. intel agencies. He insulted Gold Star parents whose son, a U.S. soldier, had been killed in Iraq. It was no coincidence that the family was Muslim. A NY judge found Trump and his adult sons liable for business fraud and canceled the Trump Organization’s business certification. He exploited the assault on a NYC jogger by taking out newspaper ads calling for the death penalty. The young Central Park 5 suspects were exonerated, but Trump never apologized. He paid actors to pose as supporters at his June 2015 campaign launch event. In a bizarre speech to a Boy Scout Jamboree, Trump described a cocktail party for “the hottest people in New York.” He later claimed the group’s leader called to say it was “the greatest speech that was ever made to them.” The Scout leader denied any call happened. He cheats at everything, including golf. There's a book: "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump." Trump claimed he “helped a little bit” to clear 9/11 rubble, but there’s no evidence it happened. He lied about being named Michigan’s Man of the Year. After a MAGA supporter massacred Latinos in El Paso, Trump and his wife went to the city and used a newly orphaned baby as a prop for a photo op. He lied that “we're the highest taxed nation in the world.” Nope. He bragged about his penis size on national TV, and Stormy Daniels later fact-checked that as false. He tweeted in 2019: “Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas.” In fact, the plant had opened nearly 6 years earlier.Share He makes the absurd claim that people weren’t allowed to say “Merry Christmas” until he came along. He accused Ted Cruz’s father of a role in the JFK assassination and said Cruz’s wife was ugly. But Cruz is so low that he sucked up to Trump anyway. He claimed he coined the phrase “priming the pump,” which has been around since 1932. He said he gave Defense Secretary James Mattis the nickname “Mad Dog”; he didn't. He lied that there were “205,000 more ballots than you had voters” in PA. He made the U.S. a laughingstock when he gave a speech at the United Nations. He denounced 4 women in Congress who are members of minority groups, telling them to go back where they came from, even though 3 were born here and the 4th immigrated as a child. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Trump wanted to shoot social justice protesters. "We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at Gen. Milley and said, 'Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?'" He lied that the strategic oil reserve was “mostly empty” and he filled it. In fact, the reserve was lower at the end of his term than at the start. He lied that "the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" He overruled experts to give a security clearance to Jared Kushner, who later leveraged his access to get $2B from the Saudis. He bathes in his cult of personality: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn't lose voters." After the right demonized Anthony Fauci, Trump claimed not to know who gave Fauci a presidential commendation. It was Trump. He said he got to know Putin “very well” when they were on the same episode of “60 Minutes.” But Trump was in NY, Putin in Russia. Discussing the breakup of his marriage to Ivana in 1990, he said: “When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!— there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left.” He said in 1991: “I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.” He said in 2015 he favored the creation of a database to track all Muslims in the U.S. Asked in 2016 if women should be charged with a crime for having an abortion despite a ban, he said: “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.” He defended Putin in 2015: "Nobody’s proven that he’s killed anybody." In 2016, he called for not only killing terrorists but killing their family members, too. He invited Russians into the Oval Office and shared classified information. He tried to revoke CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s credentials because Acosta did his job. His company, the Trump Organization, was convicted of 17 tax crimes, including conspiracy and falsifying business records. He called for government crackdowns on MSNBC and CBS because he didn’t like their coverage of him. His pardon got Steve Bannon out of federal fraud charges in a “build the wall” scam. Right-wing disinformation is Bannon’s game: "The Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit." He falsely accused 2 Georgia election workers of election fraud – the same allegations that led to a $148M judgment vs. Rudy Giuliani. His bid to monetize the presidency by hosting the G-7 summit at his Doral golf club sparked outrage, and he backed off. As Notre Dame Cathedral burned, Trump embarrassed the U.S. by tweeting: “Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!” He declared publicly in 1999 that he was “pro-choice in every respect.” But he tossed that aside for politics. He’s always been a sore loser. After Ted Cruz beat him in the 2016 Iowa caucuses, he tweeted: “Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.” Sound familiar? He praised Hungarian despot Viktor Orban as “one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world.” A Trump golf club put up a marker about a “River of Blood” at a Civil War battle that supposedly took place there. But no such battle occurred. It’s a lie. Several Trump golf clubs displayed a Time magazine cover featuring him. You guessed it: It's fake. He pardoned Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of ignoring a court order to stop profiling Latinos. He tweeted about MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski “badly bleeding from a face-lift.” He lied about Brzezinski’s husband/co-host: “When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so.” He hired Kellyanne Conway as a professional liar, and she fulfilled that role, saying early in the pandemic that Covid was “contained,” calling lies “alternative facts” and referring to a terrorist attack that never happened: the “Bowling Green Massacre.” He uses phrases like “brilliant” and “strong like granite” to describe China’s dictator Xi Jinping. He quit the Iran nuclear deal, raising the chances of nuclear war. He told his Cabinet that the Soviet Union was justified in invading Afghanistan in 1979. After former Klan leader David Duke endorsed him for president, Trump said: "I don't know David Duke. … I just don't know anything about him." But researchers found video clips showing Trump talking about Duke on national TV multiple times. He refused to attend his successor’s inauguration, becoming the first president to boycott the transition since Andrew Johnson in 1869. He tore up official documents, forcing aides to tape them together to preserve them as required by federal law. He encouraged a “lock her up” chant about Hillary Clinton and her private email server, but Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner improperly used personal messaging services such as email and WhatsApp for hundreds of government communications. He endorsed NC gov hopeful Mark Robinson, a Holocaust denier who called Obama a “top-ranking demon” and said "I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn't vote.” Trump's social-media Christmas wish for his opponents: “May they rot in hell.” He used the South Lawn of the White House for a partisan event, ignoring precedent and propriety, when he gave his 2020 Republican National Convention speech there. In late 2020, sore loser Trump delayed transition talks with the Biden team even though the stonewalling hurt public health efforts during a pandemic. Trump's administration asked Japan to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. Japan did so to curry favor. Asked about QAnon, the conspiracy cult that claims JFK Jr. is still alive and Democrats kidnap children to harvest their blood, Trump said: “I don’t know much about the movement other than I understand that they like me very much, which I appreciate.” He lied that U.S. Steel was building 6, 7, 8, or 9 new plants (the number varied). But the company built no new plants.📷

@ScienceDJX Smith came out looking more like the only adult in the room.

Trump promised his MAGA Republicans to campaign for them in 35 competitive races, but his first stops are in reliably red states like Oklahoma and Alabama with friendly crowds. So much for supporting his 'silent partners' in crime. Keep up your good work Don.

Throughout American history, I can't think of a less qualified Secretary of Defense than Pete Hegseth. Yet he is being allowed to tinker with and dismantle what was the most powerful military organization in the history of the world. It's mind-blowing!

. 🗽Robert Reich The Rot at the Top: The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-heart-of…

The over arching question is - Does the U.S. Government ever learning from history or do the power brokers just gather more power around themselves and to hell with the future? 🗽Heather Cox Richardson Read the article: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-30…

#ChaosRecap for September 30, 2026

Arizonans, where do you stand on this proposition? Is there a middle ground?