RogerMatile

RogerMatile

@ram1946.bsky.social

Retired weekly newspaper editor, photographer, reporter, graphic artist. Local history columnist, & public history nerd. Blogging local history & microhistory at History on the Fox. Volunteer local history museum director.

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People all over the world REALLY hate the Trump crime family, to the point it's causing governments to fail. It will take decades for the U.S. to live this abomination down--if we ever do:

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY

Trump not only failed to stop inflation after he was elected, but every one of his major initiatives was guaranteed to increase prices of everything from groceries to gasoline. It's unclear if ignorance, hubris, or a toxic combo of both drove the decision-making: apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.comTrump failed to stop inflation. Now Republicans may pay the price in the midterm electionsOne week before midterm elections, President Donald Trump is struggling to deliver on his promise to bring down costs.

The shear amount of open corruption in the Trump regime illustrates the contempt Trump and everyone associated with him has for the law and the Constitution. Its scope is truly amazing, as is the remaining voter support for this international criminal enterprise. balloon-juice.com/2026/10/23/l...

balloon-juice.comBalloon Juice - Late Night Corruption Open Thread: Habba vs. GrenellNope, not the antics of a couple of NPC goblins from a poorly plotted tabletop RPG. This entire month has been a series of ‘October Surprises’… which, because Everything Trump Touches Dies, have rever...

For decades, the GOP's enthusiastically passed legislation that actively harms their constituents, but those constituents just keep voting for them anyway. This year, it's not working and the GOP's at a loss to understand what the problem is. Hilarious, actually. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMedicaid cuts haunt Republicans in battleground statesDemocrats’ confidence in their health care message is showing up in polling, on the airwaves and on the debate stage.

It was all fun and games as the GOP slipped farther & farther right & got dumber & dumber--until their utter, contemptuous stupidity started killing people. Any parent whose unvaxxed kid dies of one of the MMR diseases should be charged with first degree murder: arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

arstechnica.comPennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn't seen for decadesCongenital measles can be fatal, and survivors require monitoring for years.

It would be bad enough if Trump's colossal evil, ignorance and shear stupidity, plus the GOP's slavish obedience, only afflicted the U.S., but it's doesn't; it's encouraging war and destroying lives and livelihoods worldwide. We're never, ever going to live this mess down www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

ms.nowOpinion | Trump wants to make Zelenskyy his midterms scapegoatTrump keeps finding irrational reasons to target Ukraine. This time it’s over diesel prices his war in Iran caused to spiral.

Trump is not now and never has been a dealmaker. He is, and always has been, an extortionist whose only tactic is to threaten and when his cockeyed threats don't work--which is frequently--he's got nothing else to offer: apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.comAnalysis: For Trump, results have often revealed the art of no dealDonald Trump has long promoted himself as an exceptional dealmaker, and that claim has helped fuel his rise from real estate tycoon to president.

How old am I? I'm so old I remember when the U.S. President was anti-Russia and pro-United States and democracy. Good times back then...

Trump gets elected and proceeds to do what economists said was going to tank the economy--impose illegal tariffs, reduce revenue by giving the wealthy tax cuts and then destabilizing the Middle East by invading Iran. And they wonder why they're in trouble? www.rawstory.com/dan-sullivan...

rawstory.comRepublicans scramble in panic as vulnerable red-state senator losing groundPresident Trump traveled roughly 4,000 miles over eight hours to a hockey rink in Wasilla, Alaska, to energize voters for Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is in a harder fight than expected against Democrat Mar...

So many pundits are still stroking their chins trying to figure out Trump's historic popularity collapse. Voters aren't nearly as dense:

Republicans are apparently fine with their politicians' overt corruption--unless Dems successfully explain how it directly and seriously affects voters' pocketbooks. Otherwise, GOP voters believe simply and constantly breaking the law is okay if you're a Republican. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comDemocrats are making corruption messaging a pocketbook issueRunning against corruption is not new. But Democrats have turned the familiar attack into a broader message tied to voters’ economic pain.

So here's the problem Republicans face: They chose an incredibly ignorant mentally ill felon to run the government of the most powerful nation on earth. And neither he, nor the incredible ignorant people he surrounds himself with have any idea what they're doing. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com‘Ship has sailed’: New poll shows even an end to the war or lower gas prices may not save RepublicansA new POLITICO Poll shows most Americans, especially Democratic and undecided voters, would not be moved even if Trump ended the Iran war or brought down gas prices.

There doesn't seem to be much doubt any more that Trump and the GOP have not-so-secretly allied themselves with Putin's murderous Russian regime. In yet another possibly treasonous first, Trump's allied himself with its most violent and ruthless foreign enemy. kyivindependent.com/exclusive-it...

kyivindependent.comExclusive: 'It felt like a trap.' How Ukraine was blindsided by Trump's Putin pivotWhen U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told Ukraine's delegation on Oct. 9 that President Donald Trump was preparing to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports, the Ukrainians struggled to ...

Tip for lawyers contemplating joining Trump's regime: You can't protect and defend the law & the Constitution if you're to be a successful member of Trump's team. The law, the Constitution & democracy itself are all held in total contempt by Trump and his people. www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche...

rawstory.com'They hate us': Todd Blanche furious over prosecutors quitting DOJ en masseAttorney General Todd Blanche complained that the wave of prosecutors who left the Justice Department "hate us" and have banded together against the department in opposition to President Donald Trump'...

Trump was able to persuade MAGA GOP'ers they could continuously harm their constituents with insanely destructive policies and suffer no consequences. The Trump tactic of overtly lying about the nation's economic and political situation no longer seems to be working; www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-...

kansas.comSen. Roger Marshall has an ex-governors problem in reelection campaign | OpinionThere are eight living former governors of Kansas — four Republicans and four Democrats — and six of them have endorsed Adam Hamilton.

Democrats' task going forward will be to explain to voters that the worldwide political & military chaos Trump & the GOP are causing is the logical conclusion of the "Reagan Revolution" began in the 1980s. The right wing simply cannot govern because their interest is only in accruing power & wealth.

The near-total incompetence demonstrated by Trump and Hegseth in starting an illegal war with Iran with apparently no preparation to protect our military people and assets from counterattack would be unbelievable--if it didn't involve Trump and Hegseth. apnews.com/article/iran...

apnews.comExclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strikeIt's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran. Now U.S. soldiers wounded in a drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait are raising their concerns publicly about whether comm...

In an apparently desperate effort to save her alimony in the couple's pending divorce, Ken Paxton's wife was just in a commercial on Chicago's Fox station begging Illinois residents to vote for Texas Republicans in November. I won't, but your mileage may vary, depending on your party, I suppose.

Why am I seeing political ads for that crook Paxton on my suburban Chicago TV while watching the Bears v. Jets? Is Fox unclear who can vote for U.S. Senator in Texas? Or are Texas Republicans so ignorant about who can vote in their own elections?

It's bad enough for the country as it is that modern elected Republicans are morons. That they're EVIL morons makes it 100 times worse.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social

“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974

Have to admit it's refreshing to see people running for public office who espouse the principles ed in the Sermon on the Mount, not to mention the Constitution, instead of the prosperity gospel and other wacky fictional right-wing 'Christian' philosophies... religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...

religionnews.com'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...

One of the more interesting questions historians will study concerning this crazy political era is why the Republican Party violently turned on the Hispanic constituency it spent years building up and which arguably won them the 2024 Presidential election. www.rawstory.com/trump-suppor...

rawstory.com'Trump trains' vanish from South Texas as 'baby Republicans' turn on the GOPNot long ago, caravans of pickup trucks flying Trump flags rolled through the Rio Grande Valley. Those "Trump trains" are gone now – and so is much of the Hispanic support that helped Republicans make...

Seems pretty straightforward...

Joe Walsh@walshfreedom.bsky.social

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

As predicted by everybody with a brain after Trump's Gestapo detained tourists plus the undocumented, the travel industry's now tanking. Fortunately, a LOT of this pain's going to be borne by red states that voted Republican and are now at the "Finding Out" stage. www.rawstory.com/trump-travel...

rawstory.com'Mind-boggling' drop hits as new data shows US massively shunned by travelers: expertAdd the travel industry to the growing list of economic casualties of President Donald Trump's policies, joining farmers and manufacturers as sectors bleeding cash under his trade wars and border crac...